| Acknowledgments |
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| Foreword |
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| Editor's Note |
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1 | (64) |
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Poetry, Violence, and the Trembling Lambs (1959) |
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3 | (3) |
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6 | (3) |
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Demonstration or Spectacle As Example, As Communication (1965) |
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9 | (5) |
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Coming to Terms with the Hell's Angels (1977) |
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14 | (5) |
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The Fall of America Wins and Award (1974) |
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19 | (2) |
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Nuts to Plutonium! (1978) |
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21 | (7) |
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Introduction to ``Smoking Typewriters'' (1981) |
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28 | (4) |
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Outline of Un-American Activities (1983) |
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32 | (13) |
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Vietnam and Political Conventions |
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Statement Written for Authors Take Sides on Vietnam (1967) |
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45 | (2) |
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1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention (1968) |
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47 | (3) |
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50 | (1) |
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Television Address (1972) |
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51 | (1) |
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Declaration of Three (1982) |
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52 | (1) |
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53 | (5) |
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Statement to The Burning Bush (1963) |
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58 | (2) |
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Thoughts and Recurrent Musing on Israeli Arguments (1974) |
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60 | (2) |
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Statement Concerning Dissident Human Rights (1985) |
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62 | (1) |
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An Indirect Encounter: India (1964) |
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63 | (2) |
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65 | (58) |
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U.S. Senate Statement (1966) |
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67 | (15) |
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A National Hallucination (1966) |
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82 | (3) |
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Preface and a Trip [LSD] (1978) |
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85 | (2) |
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The Great Marijuana Hoax (1966) |
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87 | (20) |
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Ginsberg Talks about Speed (1970) |
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107 | (1) |
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Prefatory Remarks Concerning Leary's Politics of Ecstasy (1968) |
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108 | (4) |
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Declaration of Independence for Dr. Timothy Leary (1971) |
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112 | (6) |
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Om Ah Hum: 43 Temporary Questions on Dr. Leary (1974) |
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118 | (5) |
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Mindfulness and Spirituality |
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123 | (42) |
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125 | (9) |
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Everybody Should Get High for the Next Ten Years (1959) |
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134 | (1) |
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Prose Contribution to Cuban Revolution (1961) |
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135 | (10) |
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Letter to Wall Street Journal (1966) |
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145 | (2) |
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147 | (1) |
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Meditation and Eastern Influences |
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Reflections on the Mantra (1966) |
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148 | (2) |
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CBC Broadcast on Mantra (1969) |
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150 | (2) |
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Meditation and Poetics (1980) |
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152 | (1) |
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A Collage of Haiku . . . (1978) |
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153 | (12) |
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165 | (26) |
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Letter to Ralph Ginzberg (1962) |
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167 | (3) |
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Thoughts on NAMBLA (1994) |
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170 | (2) |
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Big Table Support Testimony (ca. 1960) |
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172 | (3) |
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Open Letter Re: New York Review of Sex & Politics (1969) |
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175 | (2) |
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Statement [On Censorship] (1990) |
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177 | (3) |
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Noticing What Is Vivid (1993) |
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180 | (3) |
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Political Correctness (1994) |
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183 | (1) |
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C.O.P. Statement on Lenny Bruce (1964) |
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184 | (6) |
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Committee on Poetry Charter Statement (1966) |
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190 | (1) |
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Autobiographical Fragments |
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191 | (36) |
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Autobiographic Precis (1970) |
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193 | (14) |
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Chamberlain's Nakeds (1964) |
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207 | (1) |
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208 | (1) |
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What Six Nice People Found in the Government's Drawers (1976) |
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209 | (2) |
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Contemplation on Publications (1978) |
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211 | (3) |
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Notes on Stanford Literary Acquisition of My Archives (1994) |
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214 | (1) |
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Confrontation with Louis Ginsberg's Poems (1969) |
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214 | (9) |
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223 | (4) |
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Literary Technique and the Beat Generation |
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227 | (48) |
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Notes Written on Finally Recording Howl (1959) |
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229 | (3) |
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How Kaddish Happened (1966) |
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232 | (4) |
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A Definition of the Beat Generation (1981) |
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236 | (3) |
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The Six Gallery Reading (1957) |
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239 | (4) |
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Abstraction in Poetry (1961) |
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243 | (2) |
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Retrospect on Beat Generation (1992) |
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245 | (2) |
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``When the Mode of the Music Changes, the Walls of the City Shake'' (1961) |
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247 | (7) |
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Poetics: Mind Is Shapely, Art Is Shapely (1959) |
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254 | (1) |
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255 | (2) |
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257 | (1) |
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Some Metamorphoses of Personal Prosody (1966) |
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258 | (2) |
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Some Different Considerations in Mindful Arrangement of Open Verse Forms on the Page (1977) |
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260 | (1) |
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Fourteen Steps for Revising Poetry (1982) |
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261 | (1) |
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Meditation and Poetics (1987) |
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262 | (11) |
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Exercises in Poetic Candor (1980s) |
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273 | (2) |
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275 | (162) |
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Liner Notes to Blake Record (1969) |
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277 | (2) |
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Your Reason and Blake's System (1978) |
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279 | (6) |
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On Walt Whitman, Composed on the Tongue (1980) |
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285 | (47) |
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Whitman's Influence: A Mountain Too Vast to Be Seen (1992) |
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332 | (2) |
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Williams in a World of Objects (1976) |
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334 | (8) |
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The Dharma Bums Review (1958) |
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342 | (6) |
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The Great Rememberer (1972) |
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348 | (10) |
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358 | (15) |
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To America: Kerouac's Poems All Sizes (1992) |
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373 | (6) |
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William S. Burroughs Academy Blurbs (1975/1982) |
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379 | (1) |
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Junky: An Appreciation (1952) |
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380 | (2) |
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Junky: Introduction (1976) |
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382 | (4) |
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Recollections of Burroughs Letters (1981) |
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386 | (4) |
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William S. Burroughs Nobel Prize (ca. 1995) |
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390 | (2) |
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Corso Academy Blurb (1994) |
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392 | (1) |
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Introduction to Gasoline (1957) |
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392 | (3) |
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On Corso's Virtues (1989) |
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395 | (3) |
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Peter Orlovsky Clean Asshole Poems Blurb (1978) |
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398 | (1) |
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Carl Solomon Emergency Messages Blurb (1988) |
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399 | (1) |
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Blurb for Herbert Huncke's Journal (1965) |
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400 | (1) |
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400 | (4) |
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Michael McClure Guggenheim Recommendation (1971) |
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404 | (2) |
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My Mythic Thumbnail Biography of Gary Snyder (1991) |
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406 | (1) |
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Gary Synder Recommendation (ca. 1994) |
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407 | (2) |
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Kenneth Rexroth: 1905-1982 (1982) |
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409 | (3) |
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Robert Duncan [Obit] (1988) |
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412 | (1) |
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The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley Blurb (1982) |
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413 | (1) |
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On Creeley's Ear Mind (1977) |
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413 | (3) |
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Foreword to John Wieners' Selected Poems (1985) |
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416 | (5) |
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Pieces of a Song by Diane di Prime Blurb (1990) |
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421 | (1) |
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti Academy Blurb (1995) |
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422 | (1) |
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Makeup on Empty Space by Anne Waldman Blurb (1984) |
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423 | (1) |
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Contact Highs by Alan Ansen Blurb (1989) |
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424 | (1) |
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Ray Bremser and His Poetry (1964) |
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425 | (3) |
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Antler Factory Blurb (1980) |
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428 | (1) |
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Antler's ``Last Words'' (1980) |
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428 | (3) |
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Introduction to Without Doubt by Andy Clausen (1991) |
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431 | (3) |
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Foreword to Quiet Lives by David Cope (1983) |
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434 | (1) |
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Space by Eliot Katz, an Introduction (1990) |
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435 | (2) |
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437 | (64) |
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Robert LaVigne Exhibit (1958) |
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439 | (3) |
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Lamantia As Forerunner (1963) |
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442 | (2) |
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444 | (5) |
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Genet's Commencement Discourse (1970) |
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449 | (2) |
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451 | (2) |
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Visas for Lennon and Ono (ca. 1972) |
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453 | (1) |
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Lennon/Ono and Poetic Tradition (1973) |
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453 | (3) |
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456 | (1) |
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Andy Warhol [Festschrift] (1989) |
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457 | (1) |
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Introduction to First Thought Best Thought (1976/1983) |
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458 | (7) |
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Robert Frank to 1985-A Man (1986) |
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465 | (6) |
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471 | (4) |
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Hiro Yamagata's Holy Ghost XX Century Automobiles (1994) |
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475 | (5) |
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Drooker's Illuminations (1995) |
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480 | (3) |
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Remembering Chaim Gross (1991) |
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483 | (5) |
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John Cage: 1912-1992 (1992) |
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488 | (3) |
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Living Theatre and Its U.S. Critics (1985) |
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491 | (3) |
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St. Mark's Poetry Project |
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Foreword for Out of This World (1991) |
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494 | (7) |
| Notes |
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501 | (4) |
| Glossary |
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505 | (10) |
| Index |
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