Scope and Contents This polemic deals with the reprecussions of the arrests of d.a. levy and James Lowell on obscenity charges. According to Brandon Thomas DiSabatino on internet: As the regional headlines mark the 50th anniversary of the Hough Riots, I recall a line in a poem by d.a. levy, observing the madness that erupted from July 18th to July 23rd on the east side of Cleveland: they are looting stores trying to get televisions so they can watch the riots/on the 11 pm news It is an image my mind has conjured during riots and subsequent lootings over the past few years "” in Ferguson, in Baltimore "” where the strange, seemingly unmovable biases and struggles of class warfare appear inseparable from the American landscape. levy was born and raised in Cleveland, and he incorporated the Hough Riots in his poetry as he incorporated every aspect of Cleveland during the mid-to-late 60s. His self-described artistic mission was to give the city its own singular breed of poetry, regardless of whether...

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The authors comment that "In four short but inspired years, Ray Gun has captured the imagination of American alternative culture as a forum for debate and as an arbiter of credibility on music, graphic design, culture, and style." This book presents new design on the cutting edge of typography, writing, photography, illustration, fashion. The compact disc is formatted for the MacIntosh. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue carries an interview with Jean-Jacque Lebel on the history of Happenings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ian Hamilton Finlay contributed a conventional poem entitled "Orkney Interior." Michel Butor wrote an essay on Baudelaire. An excerpt from "Kadish" by Allen Ginsberg is printed in this issue. Charles Olson contributed a poem with concrete poetic elements, Edwin Morgan wrote an essay on "Jean Genet: A Life and its Legend." "Naked Lunch" by William Burroughs was reviewed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Subtitled "The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America," the book title was suggested to the author by Allen Ginsberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Silver mylar foil dust jacket. Themes deal with revolution, homosexuality, and underground press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Iris Lezak was Mac Low's lover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Shaped Poetry by Andrew Hoyem and "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery, published by the Arion Press, are reviewed in the article. Both are held by the Sackner Archive. (Marv- do we also have the Tilson book?) -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Beat Hotel on 9 rue Git-le-Coeur in Paris, was the residence of the Beat writers during the years 1957 to 1963. It was here that Ginsberg wrote Kaddish, Gysin discovered the cut-up method and Dream Machine, Burroughs completed and published Naked Lunch, and Corso wrote the Bomb. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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What began among a small circle of friends in New York and San Francisco during the late 1940's and early 1950's laid the groundwork for a literary explosion, and this striking anthology captures the storied era in all its incarnations - from the Benzedrine-fueled antics of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs to the painting sessions of Jay deFeo's disheveled studio, from the jazz hipsters to the beatnik chicks, from Chicago's College of Complexes to San Francisco's famed City Lights bookstore. Snapshots of lesser-known poets and writers sit alongside frank and compelling looks at the Beats' most recognizable faces. What emerges is a brilliant collage of - and tribute to - a generation, in a form and style that is as original as its subject. The text is by Harvey Pekar and others and the art is by Ed Piskor. Paul Buhle edited the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Larry Weiner did the graphics in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.