Paul Carroll's "Straight Poets I Have Known & Loved" (1995)

Boone, North Carolina, US: Big Table Books (book, memoir), 1995.
8.5" x 5.375", 78 pages, stapled wraps.

Straight Poets I Have Known & Loved, a book of "[p]ortraits and anecdotes about 50 contemporary American poets, novelists & critics" by Paul Carroll, one of the editors of Big Table that published Burroughs and fought the charges of obscenity in 1958, as published as a thick chapbook by Big Table Books (Boone, North Carolina, US) in 1995. Paul Carroll died the year following this publication. Cover design by Maryrose Carroll.

At page 27, Paul Carroll reflects on William S. Burroughs.

This copy is inscribed by Paul Carroll on the title page and was acquired from Philip Smith, Bookseller (Berkeley, California, US).

Contents: 

• Paul Carroll: Straight Poets I Have Known & Loved:
• "In Defense of Literary Anecdote"
• Nelson Algren
• Brother Antoninus
• John Ashbery
• W. H. Auden
• Marvin Bell
• Saul Bellow
• Paul Blackburn
• Robert Bly
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• William S. Burroughs
• John Ciardi
• Gregory Corso
• Robert Creeley
• e. e. cummings
• Edward Dahlberg
• James Dickey
• T. S. Eliot
• James T. Farrell
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Robert Frost
• Isabella Gardner
• Allen Ginsberg
• Randall Jarrell
• Jack Kerouac
• Galway Kinnell
• Carolyn Kizer
• Bill Knott
• Kenneth Koch
• Philip Levine
• John Logan
• Robert Lowell
• Norman Mailer
• James Merrill
• W. S. Merwin
• Marianne Moore
• Frank O'Hara
• Poetry Magazine: Karl Shapiro & After
• John Crowe Ransom
• Theodore Roethke
• Kenneth Rexroth
• Anne Sexton
• George Starbuck
• Selwyn Schwartz
• Allen Tate
• Dylan Thomas
• Kurt Vonnegut
• James Wright