Soft Need Nº 9, Spring 1976

 

A reproduction of a postcard from Brion Gysin to Udo Breger leads this issue.

On pages 32-34 is a biography of Brion Gysin: "One Is From There Where One Loses His Virginity".

Burroughs contributes an interview with Brion Gysin “On the Painting of Brion Gysin” pp. 35-41, with photos.

Published in Bonn, Germany by Expanded Media Editions in Spring of 1976.

Contents: 

• Alan Dye: Claude Pélieu (photo)
• François Lagarde: 
• Diego Cortez & Udo Breger attending the Basilea Art Fair (photo)
• William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin (photos)
• William S. Burroughs (photos)
• Brion Gysin: 
• postcard to Udo Breger (letter)
• One Is From There Where One Loses His Virginity (essay)
• Jacqueline Starer: "Beatology" and Other Things: an interview with Claude Pélieu and Mary Beach (interview)
• Claude Pélieu: 9 Poems from I Got Those Deep River Blues:
• Feedback Into the Past Into the Future (poetry)
• Morning Song (poetry)
• Electric Night Laid Up (poetry)
• Shoot the Neon Now! (poetry)
• Breathdeath & Kozmic Kapers Above Me (poetry)
• The Death of Blue Will Make the Earth Weep (poetry)
• Maria Sativa (poetry)
• Poem for Andy Warhol (poetry)
• Let's Play Something (poetry)
• Miles: The Last Interview in Black and White: Twenty-One Spots with Claude Pélieu & Mary Beach (essay)
• Victor Bockris and Andrew Wylie: interview with Claude Pélieu & Mary Beach (interview)
• Charles Plymell: 
• collages (art)
• Coca, Saturn, and Sun (prose)
• Gerard Malanga: Chas Plymell (photo)
• William Burroughs & Brion Gysin: On the Painting of Brion Gysin (interview)
• John Giorno: excerpt from Shit, Piss, Blood, Pus, & Brains (poetry)
• Carl Weissner: Don't Fuck with the Karma-Buster (prose)
• Paul Eggett: Susan's Waiting to Help You with Your Money (poetry)
• Joshua Norton: 
• The Shooting Star (poetry)
• untitled (poetry)
• Walter Hartmann: Nite Life, The Little Death (art)
• Jürgen Ploog: Slow Motion Getaway (prose)
• Bruno Demattio: Filming Inside the Brains: The Mental Image Projection (prose)
• Alan Praskin: untitled music score
• Pavel Lucki:
• Miles Davis (art)
• Howard Johnson (art)
• Alphonse Mouzon (art)
• Jack Bruce (art)
• Gato Barbieri (art)
• Oregon (art)
• Gunter Hampel: Waiting for Silva (art)
• Paul Grillo:
• Roxy Poem (poetry)
• Cadillac (poetry)
• Counterspy/You (poetry)
• Chapter Two: Charles Plymell (poetry)
• Laser Squeeze (poetry)
• Venusian Plush Wheel (poetry)
• The Brilliant Narrows of Evening (poetry)
• Udo Breger: Krim Partner Had a Look In (prose)
• William Bain: Don't You (prose)
• Arthur Winfield Knight: 
• Writers (poetry)
• Jack Kerouac (poetry)
• Jim Christy: About the Night and What It Does to You (prose)
• Fred Tarr:
• Universe & Other Stories (poetry)
• Sleepwalker (poetry)
• Count Monte Organza & the Circle Game (poetry)
• The Japanese Solution (poetry)
• The Story of O & AH (poetry)
• Unknown:
• Ian Sommerville (photo)
• Claude Pélieu & Mary Beach (photo)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Pociao
• Translations: Jean McNeil, Udo Breger
• Proofreader: Caroline Tait
• Printer: Weender Buchdruckerei, Werner Rosenthal, Göttingen, Germany