Beat Scene, Issue 112, Winter/Spring 2025

 

This issue contains R. J. Riley’s “The Book of Earthbound Ghosts: Terry Wilson’s Dreams of Green Base”, pp. 23-26, which contains multiple reference to Brion Gysin.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in early 2025.

This copy was acquired directly from the publisher.

Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Jack Kerouac's Ray Smith: A Novel in the Making?" (essay)
• "So Much for Kulchur" (essay)
• review of One Shot: A Best Generation Mystery by Oliver Harris
• review of City Lights Pocket Poet Series 2005-2025 edited by Donald Heneghan
• review of O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder, a film by Colin Still
• Chris Felver and Carolyn Cassady: "Dear Carolyn: Thank God for Meeting You Again in Paris" (interview)
• Chris Felver: photographs
• Charles Shuttleworth: "Jack Kerouac: Dharma Fragments (1954)" (excerpt from The Buddhist Years)
• Stephen Ronan and John Montgomery: "A Conversation with John Montgomery, Christmas Day, 1990 Berkeley, California" (interview)
• Jim Burns: "Fielding Dawson" (essay)
• Lois Sorrells: letter to Beat Scene
• R. J. Riley: "The Book of Earthbound Ghosts: Terry Wilson's Dreams of Green Base" (essay)
• Lem Coley: "Riding the Energy Train with William Burroughs" (essay)
• Allen De Loach and William S. Burroughs: "William Burroughs and Allen Deloach [sic]: A Conversation" (interview)
• Gordon Ball: photograph
• Colin Cooper:
• "Gary Snyder, Robert Creeley, and Allen Ginsberg: The Berkeley Poetry Conference 1965" (essay)
• review of Shy of the Squirrel's Foot by Andy Martrich
• Joshua Bodwell: "Ok, My Man! Neeli Cherkovski's Editor Remembers the Poet and Biographer" (essay/memoir)
• San Cherry: photograph
• Michael Robert Gordon: "Charles Plymell: The Kanza Sage Will Be 90" (essay and interview)
• Jaoa Faustino: "Lionel Ziprin: Mystic Interjections" (essay)
• Kevin Ring and Persephone Abbott: "Mordechai from Monterey" (interview)
• Kevin Ring and Charles Shuttleworth: "Jack Kerouac: The Buddhist Years" (interview)
• Brian Dalton:
• review of Tendrel: A Meeting of Minds by Anne Waldman
• review of Evergreen Review: Dispatches from the Literary Underground: Covers & Essays 1957-1973 edited by Pat Thomas
• "Gerd Stern" (essay)
• Dawn Swoop: review of Allen Ginsberg: Material Wealth 1956-1996
• Pauline Reeves: "William Burroughs in London, Film Season Exhibit" (reivew)
• Sophia Nitrate: review of The Day & Night Book of Mardou Fox by Nisi Shawl
• Tom Swift:
• review of Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike
• review of Exiled Angel; A Study of the Work of Gregory Corso by Gregory Stephenson

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Deputy Editor: Jim Burns
• News & Research: Pauline Reeves, Erin Ring
• Layout; Scarlett Letters
• Post: M. Ring
• Beat Scene in America: Richard Miller