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Acknowledgments | |
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Foreword | |
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Editor's Note | |
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Politics and Prophecies | |
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Poetry, Violence, and the Trembling Lambs | |
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Back to the Wall | |
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Demonstration or Spectacle As Example, As Communication | |
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Coming to Terms with the Hell's Angels | |
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The Fall of America Wins an Award | |
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Nuts to Plutonium! | |
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Introduction to "Smoking Typewriters" | |
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Outline of Un-American Activities | |
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Statement Written for Authors Take Sides on Vietnam | |
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1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention | |
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All Is Poetry | |
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Television Address | |
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Declaration of Three | |
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China Trip | |
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Statement to The Burning Bush | |
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Thoughts and Recurrent Musing on Israeli Arguments | |
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Statement Concerning Dissident Human Rights | |
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An Indirect Encounter: India | |
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Drug Culture | |
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U.S. Senate Statement | |
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A National Hallucination | |
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Preface and a Trip [LSD] | |
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The Great Marijuana Hoax | |
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Ginsberg Talks about Speed | |
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Prefatory Remarks Concerning Leary's Politics of Ecstasy | |
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Declaration of Independence for Dr. Timothy Leary | |
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Om Ah Hum: 43 Temporary Questions on Dr. Leary | |
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Mindfulness and Spirituality | |
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Public Solitude | |
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Everybody Should Get High for the Next Ten Years | |
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Prose Contribution to Cuban Revolution | |
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Letter to Wall Street Journal | |
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Anger Advice | |
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Reflections on the Mantra | |
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CBC Broadcast on Mantra | |
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Meditation and Poetics | |
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A Collage of Haiku ... | |
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Censorship and Sex Laws | |
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Letter to Ralph Ginzberg | |
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Thoughts on NAMBIA | |
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Big Table Support Testimony | |
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Open Letter Re: New York Review of Sex and Politics | |
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Statement [on Censorship] | |
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Noticing What Is Vivid | |
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Political Correctness | |
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C.O.P. Statement on Lenny Bruce | |
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Committee on Poetry Charter Statement | |
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Autobiographical Fragments | |
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Autobiographic Precis | |
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Chamberlain's Nakeds | |
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Early Influences | |
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What Six Nice People Found in the Government's Drawers | |
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Contemplation on Publications | |
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Notes on Stanford Literary Acquisition of My Archives | |
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Confrontation with Louis Ginsberg's Poems | |
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Brother Poet | |
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Literary Technique and the Beat Generation | |
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Notes Written on Finally Recording Howl | |
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How Kaddish Happened | |
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A Definition of the Beat Generation | |
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The Six Gallery Reading | |
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Abstraction in Poetry | |
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Retrospect on Beat Generation | |
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"When the Mode of the Music Changes, the Walls of the City Shake" | |
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Poetics: Mind Is Shapely, Art Is Shapely | |
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What Way I Write | |
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Poet's "Voice" | |
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Some Metamorphoses of Personal Prosody | |
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Some Different Considerations in Mindful Arrangement of Open Verse Forms on the Page | |
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Fourteen Steps for Revising Poetry | |
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Meditation and Poetics | |
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Exercises in Poetic Candor | |
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Writers | |
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Liner Notes to Blake Record | |
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Your Reason and Blake's System | |
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On Walt Whitnam, Composed on the Tongue | |
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Whitman's Influence: A Mountain Too Vast to Be Seen | |
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Williams in a World of Objects | |
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The Dharma Bums Review | |
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The Great Rememberer | |
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Kerouac's Ethic | |
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To America: Kerouac's Pomes All Sizes | |
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William S. Burroughs Academy Blurbs | |
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Junky: An Appreciation | |
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Junky: Introduction | |
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Recollections of Burroughs Letters | |
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William S. Burroughs Nobel Prize | |
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Corso Academy Blurb | |
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Introduction to Gasoline | |
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On Corso's Virtues | |
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Peter Orlovsky Clean Asshole Poems Blurb | |
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Carl Solomon Emergency Messages Blurb | |
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Blurb for Herbert Huncke's Journal | |
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On Huncke's Book | |
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Michael McClure Guggenheim Recommendation | |
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My Mythic Thumbnail Biography of Gary Snyder | |
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Gary Snyder Recommendation | |
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Kenneth Rexroth: 1905-1982 | |
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Robert Duncan [Obit] | |
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The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley Blurb | |
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On Creeley's Ear Mind | |
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Foreword to John Wieners' Selected Poems | |
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Pieces of a Song by Diane di Prima Blurb | |
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti Academy Blurb | |
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Makeup on Empty Space by Anne Waldman Blurb | |
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Contact Highs by Alan Ansen Blurb | |
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Ray Bremser and His Poetry | |
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Antler Factory Blurb | |
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Antler's "Last Words" | |
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Introduction to Without Doubt by Andy Clausen | |
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Foreword to Quiet Lives by David Cope | |
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Space by Eliot Katz, an Introduction | |
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Further Appreciations | |
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Robert LaVigne Exhibit | |
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Lamantia As Forerunner | |
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On Henri Michaux | |
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Genet's Commencement Discourse | |
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Remembering Auden | |
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Visas for Lennon and Ono | |
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Lennon/Ono and Poetic Tradition | |
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Beatles Essay | |
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Andy Warhol [Festschrift] | |
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Introduction to First Thought Best Thought | |
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Robert Frank to 1985 - A Man | |
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Hydrogen Jukebox | |
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Hiro Yamagata's Holy Ghost XX Century Automobiles | |
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Drooker's Illuminations | |
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Remembering Chaim Gross | |
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John Cage: 1912-1992 | |
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Living Theatre and Its U.S. Critics | |
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Foreword for Out of This World | |
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Notes | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |