Jim McCrary's "All that" (2008)

Moscow, Idaho: ManyPenny Press (book, poetry), 2008.
9" x 6" x 0.375", 171 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-0-9798478-0-6.

All that: the collected chapbooks by Jim McCrary, published in softcover by ManyPenny Press (Moscow, Idaho) in 2008. Cover painting by Sue Ashline. Book design by First Intensity Book Arts.

This book of collected works by Jim McCrary, poet and former Office Manager and friend of William S. Burroughs, contains "Quien Es Indeed" at page 37, a poem about William S. Burroughs, as confirmed by the author. On the following page is the poem "Salt Chunk Mary," on a subject familiar to readers of Burroughs.

This copy is inscribed from Jim McCrary to me, and was received during a July, 2026 visit to Lawrence, Kansas.

Contents: 

• Acknowledgments
• from And/Or, And: Or and Or (c.1991)
• "Or. The Poem"
• from West of Mass ("Hymns of the American West", c. 1992)
• "Doc"
• "Film Noir"
• "Inspired by a Rumor that Edward Abbey Was Spotted Last Week at a Hardware Store in Española, New Mexico"
• "Jesse"
• "Film Review #67337"
• "El Turco"
• "'Liver Eatin' Johnson"
• "Remembering the Honest Criminals"
• "Calamity Jane"
• "The Conspiracy Called Mormon"
• "Quien Es Indeed"
• "Salt Chunk Mary"
• "Charlie Starkweather or a Question to the Reader"
• "S&L Update"
• "Lone Star"
• "Bat"
• "True Story Concerning Ms. Annie Oakley"
• "Lest You Forget"
• from Edible Pets (c. 1987) [10 parts]
• from The Book of Arrogance (c. 1993)
• "F*ck Israel"
• "F*ck Fred Phelps"
• "F*ck Andrea Dworkin"
• "F*ck Bill Clinton"
• "F*ck All Fundamentalists"
• "F*ck Tolerance"
• "F*ck the New Age"
• "F*ck You"
• from Dive She Said (c. 2000)
• "Potre"
• "Too Much Recall"
• "Recollection"
• "D[r]awn"
• "Untitled 2"
• "Sauer Grapes"
• "Reading Notes"
• "Failed Novel Idea"
• "Address Unknown"
• "2 Squalls"
• "Deb and Neva"
• from Hotter Then and Now (c. 2004)
• "98"
• "99"
• "100"
• "101"
• "102"
• "103"
• "104"
• "105"
• "106"
• "107"
• "108"
• "109"
• from Holbox (c. 2001)
• "Any amount of water..."
• "Reverse the horizon..."
• "Two things..."
• "Lands end..."
• "How can you possibly..."
• "The morning..."
• "Is that a horizon..."
• "There is..."
• "So this is what we really did..."
• "Winging..."
• "Suddenly..."
• "It is the light of course..."
• "Lull ed by the surf..."
• "Did I mention..."
• from Mayaland (c. 2002)
• "Being led astray — Ek Balam, Yucatan"
• "Being led by choice — Becan, Quintana Roo"
• "Being led by example — Xpujil, Campeche"
• "Being led home — Kohunlick, Quintana Roo"
• from Oh Miss Mary (c. 2006)
• "Having the best spot in town..."
• "Mary oh Mary..."
• "Today it is simple..."
• "Ah... take Mary for me..."
• "Take her to the one she knows..."
• "Oh Mary... come back to where..."
• "Well that..."
  
• "So here she will she come..."
• "Married or not..."
• "Opus dio me ass and then how can..."
• "Mary oh Mary..."
• "So then..."
• "Of course this is about a woman..."
• from My Book (c. 2003)
• from Being Frida Kahlo (c. 2007)
• "Few records exist..."
• "The real problem attached to..."
• "There is something about..."
• "What I am getting at just now..."
• "Assuming that nothing falls into place..."
• "Everyone sooner or later..."
• "If it is really all about..."
• "Don't look at me for example..."
• "Pile on all this stuff..."
• "Who was he trying to fool..."
• "Pretending to be a dead..."
• "'I'd rather be dead than read'..."
• "Writing out of a bad place..."
• "Ending a bad dream is..."
• from And You Think All There Is to Politics Is "Making Sh*t Up" (c. 2008)
• "Believe what you want..."
• "But then again..."
• "It's a poppy world out there..."
• "And it does for the month..."
• "What's used is refined..."
• "It all comes from the heartland..."
• "Well, finding anything these days is dopey..."
• Tom Beckett and Jim McCrary:  interview