Discourse, Volume 20, Numbers 1-2 ("The Silent Beat"), Winter-Spring 1998

John Corbett contributes “Nothing Is True; Everything Is Permuted: The Brion Gysin/Steve Lacy Songbook”, pp. 110-123.

This issue is dedicated to Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, with a photo of them with Anne Waldman on page 4.

Published in Detroit by Wayne State University Press in early 1998.

Contents:

• Etel Adnan: 
• cover art
• "The Unfolding of an Artist's Book" (essay)
• artworks
• Bob Kaufman: 
• "Ginsberg (for Allen)" (poetry)
• Letter to the Chronicle, October 5, 1963
• "Fragment from Public Secret" (poetry)
• "January 30, 1976: Message to Myself" (poetry)
• "The Ancient Rain" (prose poetry)
• "Bird with Painted Wings" (poetry)
• "Alien Winds" (poetry)
• "A Buddhist Experience" (poetry)
• "The Trip, Dharma Trip, Sangha Trip" (poetry)
• "To My Son Parker, Asleep in the Next Room" (poetry)
• "The American Sun" (poetry)
• "Abomunist Manifesto" (poetry)
• "Notes Dis- and Re- garding Abomunism" (poetry)
• "Further Notes" (poetry)
• "$$ Abomunus Craxioms $$" (poetry)
• "Excerpts from the Lexicon Abomunon" (poetry)
• "Abomunist Election Manifesto" (poetry)
• "Still Further Notes Dis- & Re- garding Abomunism" (poetry)
• "Boms" (poetry)
• "Abomunist Rational Anthem" (poetry)
• "Abomunist Documents" (prose)
• "Abomnewscast...on the Hour" (poetry)
• "War Memoir" (poetry)
• "Bagel Shop Jazz" (poetry)
• Chester Keeler: "Bob Kaufman" (photograph, 1954)
• Eileen Kaufman: 
• "Ode to Coletrane" (poetry)
• Letter to Bob Kaufman, 13 January 1986
• Bob Kaufman: "Response" (poetry)
• Skip Gates and Ted Joans: "Ted Joans: Tri-Continental Poet" (interview)
• Ted Joans:
• "Bronx Bagel Baby Welcomes an Unhip Contingent of A-Trainers" (collage)
• "Dead Serious" (poetry)
• "I Too, at the Beginning" (poetry)
• from The Hipsters (collage)
• Allen Ginsberg: letter to Ted Joans
• Ted Joans: "Bird Lives & Bob Still GIVES" (poetry)
• André Lewis: photograph of Ted Joans and Bob Kaufman at City Lights Bookstore, 1979
• Ted Joans: 
• "Along the Paris Corso" (poetry)
• "Why I Shall Sell P A R I S" (poetry)
• "Afrique Accidentale" (poetry)
• "African Village as Greenwich Village" (art)
• "Jazz Is..............." (poetry)
• John Corbett: "Nothing Is True; Everything Is Permuted: The Brion Gysin/Steve Lacy Songbook" (essay)
• Steven Shapiro: "Blood (Doug Rice's Blood of Mugwump)" (prose)
• Irina Leimbacher: "An Introduction to the Films of Chick Strand" (essay)
• Irina Leimbacher and Chick Strand: "An Interview with Chick Strand" (interview)
• Kenneth White: quote from "At the End of the Road"
• Bob Perelman: "Speech Effects: The Talk as a Genre (Excerpt" (essay)
• Jack Foley and Allen Ginsberg: "Same Multiple Identity: An Interview with Allen Ginsberg" (interview)
• Jack Foley: "Beat" (essay)
• Kathryne V. Lindberg: "Mister Joans, to You: Readerly Surreality and Writerly Affiliation in Ted Joans, Tri-Continental Ex-Beatnik" (essay)
• Ted Joans: from The Hipsters (art)
• Jack Kerouac: 
• letter to Ted Joans, February 13, 1963
• short note to Ted Joans
• drawing of Ted Joans
• Etel Adnan: quote from Journey to Mount Tamalpais
• Amy L. Friedman: "'Being Here as Hard as I Could:' The Beat Generation Women Writers" (essay)
• ruth weiss: 
• "I Always Thought You Black" (poetry) 
• "13 Senryu" (poetry)
• "John Hoffman" (poetry)
• "Calvin Gilbert" (poetry)
• "For Bobby Kaufman" (poetry)
• Joanna McClure:
• "Today" (poetry)
• "August 31, 1970" (poetry)
• "September 14, 1970" (poetry)
• Michael McClure: portrait of Joanna McClure
• Joanna McClure:
• "1990" (poetry)
• "1990-B" (poetry)
• "1990-C" (poetry)
• "L.A." (poetry)
• "Death" (poetry)
• "Tom" (poetry)
• "December 1967" (poetry)
• "Tassajara" (poetry)
• "Zen Flow" (poetry)
• "April 25, 1972" (poetry)
• "Gone" (poetry)
• Dorothy Jessie Beagle: "Don't Bitch No More, Kerouac!" (poetry)
• Mary Norbert Körte: 
• "Eddie Mae the Cook Dreamed Sister Mary Ran off with Allen Ginsberg" (poetry)
• "Falling in to the Burn Pile" (poetry)
• Joanne Kyger: 
• "Wide Mind" (poetry)
• "Constantly Opening Up"
• "Man"
• "Long Life Pills" 
• "Morning"
• Diane di Prima: 
• "Househunting Saga" (poetry)
• "For Suzuki Roshi" (poetry)
• "Letter to Robert Duncan" (poetry)
• "Out-Takes from Loba (Book II)" (poetry)
• "Writ on Napkins, Date Unknown" (poetry)
• Anne Waldman: "Rooms" (prose poetry)

Publishing Information: 

• Editors: Thomas Andrae, Bertrand Augst, Jalal Toufic, Trinh T. Minh-ha
• General Editor: Rolando J. Romero
• Managing Editor: Joe Barcroft
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