"Toward the New America" (1970)

Lexington, Massachusetts, US: D. C. Heath and Company (book, anthology), 1970.
9.25" x 6.125" x 0.75", 353 pages, softcover.

Toward a New America, an anthology edited by James K. Bell and Adrian A. Cohn, as published in a softcover edition by D. C. Heath and Company (Lexington, Massachusetts, US) in 1970. This book is organized into six sections: "A Natural History of the Dead", "Revolutions", "The Black Experience", Psychedelos", "Eros", and "Arts".

William S. Burroughs contributes "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness", pp. 210-215, in the "Psychedelos" section. Originally included with The Naked Lunch.

Additional mentions of Burroughs may be found in Leslie Fielder's "The New Mutants", pp. 301-315 in the "Arts" section.

Not in Maynard & Miles.
Not in Shoaf.
Not in Schottlaender.

Contents: 

• Preface
• Introduction: To the Student
• "A Natural History of the Dead":
• introduction
• Ernest Hemingway: "A Natural History of the Dead" (prose)
• Leo E. Litwak: "The Solitary Life of Man" (prose)
• Robert Lowell: "For the Union Dead" (poetry)
• Robie Macauley: "That Day" (prose)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "Sometime During Eternity" (poetry)
• Herbert Gold: "Death in Miami Beach" (prose)
• Alan Harrington: "Life in the Crystal Palace" (prose)
• William Jay Smith: "American Primitive" (poetry)
• Paul Simon: "The Sound of Silence" (lyrics)
• "Revolutions":
• introduction
• George Wald: "A Generation in Search of the Future" (essay)
• Martin Duberman: "On Misunderstanding Student Rebels" (essay)
• Arthur J. Schlesinger Jr.: "The Politics of Violence" (essay)
• Midge Decter: "Anti-Americanism in America" (essay)
• Kenneth Tynan: "Open Letter to an American Liberal" (letter)
• "The Black Experience":
• introduction
• Eldridge Cleaver: "On Becoming" (letter/essay)
• James A. Emanuel: "Emmett Till" (poetry)
• Richard Wright: "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow" (prose)
• Ralph Ellison: "Battle Royal" (prose)
• Warren Miller:
• "Gramma Custis Is Crazy" (prose)
• "The Time the Old Woman Got Eat by the Dog" (prose)
• Kristin Hunter: "Debut" (prose)
• Langston Hughes:
• "Mulatto" (poetry)
• "The Negro Mother" (poetry)
• "Jazz, Jive, and Jam" (prose)
• Nat Hentoff: "The Mystery of Black" (essay)
• "Psychedelos":
• introduction
• Gene Fowler: "Psychedelos" (poetry)
• Ernest Havemann: "Psychochemistry: Personality by Prescription" (essay)
• Alfred R. Lindesmith: "The Marihuana Problem – Myth or Reality?" (essay)
• John N. Bleibtreu: "LSD and the Third Eye" (essay)
• William S. Burroughs: "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness" (essay)
• Anne Sexton: "The Addict" (poetry)
• "Eros":
• introduction
• J. I. Simmons and Barry Winograd: "Sex" (essay) 
• Herbert Gold: "Girl Getting Educated at Noon on Sunday" (prose)
• Donald Justice: "In Bertram's Garden" (poetry)
• John Clellon Holmes: "The New Girl" (essay)
• Harvey Cox: "Sex and Secularization" (essay)
• John Updike: "Eros Rampant" (prose)
• Robert Mezey: "The Lovemaker" (poetry)
• Hilary Fowler: 
• "Bone" (poetry)
• "Flesh" (poetry)
• "The Beginnings" (poetry)
• Theodore Roethke: 
• "The Sensualists" (poetry)
• "Light Listened" (poetry)
• "Once More, the Round" (poetry)
• "Arts"
• introduction
• Tom Wolfe: "What If He Is Right?" (prose) 
• Leslie Fielder: "The New Mutants" (essay)
• Pauline Kael: "Trash, Art, and the Movies" (essay)
• Frank Zappa: "The New Rock" (essay)
• Gene Fowler: "Shaman Songs" (poetry)
• Bibliographical Index