The outlaw bible of American poetry
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Kaufman, Alan writer of introduction,
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New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, [1999].
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xxvii, 685 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
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| Bandon Public Library - Adult/General - Nonfiction | 811.54 OUTLAW | Available |
Table of Contents
Introduction / Alan Kaufman --
Publisher's Note / Neil Ortenberg --
Walt Whitman / Shut Not Your Doors --
Prologue: Voices From Outlaw Heaven --
Poem To The Freaks / Jack Micheline --
Soul Eyes / Jim Brodey --
Sitting on a Bench Near TSQuare / d.a. levy --
In the Event of My Demise / Tupac Shakur --
Mein Kampf / David Lerner --
American Renegades --
Wild Thing / Rabbit Man / 1989 cont./Gorilla in the Midst #6 / Sapphire --
From Tombstone as a Lonely Charm (Part 3) / From Cleveland Undercovers / From Suburban Monastery Death Poem / The Bells of Cherokee Ponies / The suburban prophets (for R.D.D.) / Poem for Beverly / Reality Jew (1964) / From Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions / d.a. levy. --
Revolutionary Letter #1 / Revolutionary Letter #4 / Revolutionary Letter #12 / Revolutionary Letter #29 / Revolutionary Letter #36 / Diane diPrima --
Tracking Bob Dylan / Peter Coyote --
Wanted Man / Bob Dylan --
Jesse James and His Boys / Jesus Christ / Woody Guthrie --
In a Suburb of Thebes / Night and Fog (San Francisco) / The Shower Scene in Psycho / David Trinidad --
Bagel Shop Jazz / I, Too, Know What I Am Not / Would You Wear My Eyes? / To My Son Parker, Asleep in the Next Room / Jail Poems 1-34 / Abomunist Manifesto / Bob Kaufman --
Short Speech to My Friends / Amiri Baraka --
How to Proceed in the Arts / Larry Rivers, Frank O'Hara.
On Jackson Pollock / Helen A. Harrison --
(Untitled) / Jackson Pollock --
Ballad of a Bad Boy / Libya / Babelogue / High on Rebellion / Notebook / Notes for the Future: August 2, 1998, New York City / Notes, New York City, 1976 / Patti Smith --
Ode to a Tijuana Toilet / James Dean --
9th & Hennepin / Tom Waits --
Beauty Is Everywhere Beaudelaire --
Hiding Places --
On Franz Kline --
Warren Finnerty Riding a Bicycle on 4th Avenue at Midnight Dreaming of Love and Wine and Franz Kline --
Stone of the Heart / Blues Poem / One Arm / Poem to the Seventeenth of November 1962 / Rambling Jack (a biography) / Chasing Kerouac's Shadow / Jack Micheline --
On Henry Miller / Lawrence Durrell --
A Poem in Prose for My Venus / Advice to a Young Writer / Henry Miller --
The Shortest Novel of Them All / Norman Mailer --
From a letter to Jim Scully, December 1994 / From The Blood About the Heart / Sarah Menefee --
Europe / The Recognition #2 / NY, NY / Haiti / Buy, Always Consume (by Ferruccio Brugnaro, translated by Jack Hirschman) / Home / Act (by Roque Dalton, translated by Jack Hirschman) / Jack Hirschman --
An Essay on William Carlos Williams / Victor Hernandez Cruz --
We Bumped off Your Friend the Poet / I'm Not a Man / The Ex-Nun and the Gay Poet / William Carlos Williams / Classic Frieze in a Garage /
Let Go and Feel Your Nakedness / At the Cafe Trieste / Dream of Frank O'Hara / Harold Norse --
Letter to Harold Norse, February 14th, 1957 / William Carlos Williams --
Ten Outlaw Heroes / Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg --
241st Chorus / 149th Chorus / 211th Chorus / Jack Kerouac --
Adventures in Auto-eroticism / Leaving L.A. by Train at Night, High ... / Neal Cassady --
Poet Talking to Himself in the Mirror / Dear Villon / Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway / Greenwich Village Suicide / Gregory Corso --
C'mon Pigs of Western Civilization, Eat More Grease / Allen Ginsberg --
Letter to William Carlos Williams, February 23, 1957 / Letter to William Carlos Williams, October 4, 1958 / Harold Norse --
Letter to Harold Norse, August 26, 1960 / William Carlos Williams --
South Central Los Angeles Death Trip, 1982 / Wanda Coleman --
From Devoured by Myths, an interview with Sylvere Lotringer / I Begin to Feel / Kathy Acker --
The Evening News / "My Legs Senor." / Cold Lost Marbles / William S. Burroughs --
A Non-Christian on Sunday / The Bride Goes Wild / Amy Gerstler --
In His Own Words / Puerto Rican Obituary / Telephone Booth number 301 / Telephone Booth number 507 / Telephone Booth number 898 1/2 / Telephone Booth number 63765057 / Telephone Booth number 542 / Telephone Booth number 32439 / Pedro Pietri --
The Galilee Hitch-Hiker / Richard Brautigan --
Bike Messenger Leading the People / Women Are Hungry / Manifest Destiny / An Oliver Stone Movie / Dominique Lowell --
From Song of the Open Road, parts 1 & 2 / Walt Whitman --
Walt Whitman Strides the Llano of New Mexico / Rudolfo Anaya --
These Are My Words, My Neon, Siliconed, Carcinogenic Words. But This Is My Poem, My Poem About Elvis / Ken DiMaggio --
Bus / House of Strangers / Who Are We? /
The Saddest Man on Earth. On Reading Whitman's Song of Myself at One O'Clock in the Morning / Across the Mississippi / Let Us / Alan Kaufman --
The Crucifixion of Johnny Carson / Slamdancing to the Blues / Blasted Youth / Satan After Hours / Thief of Fire / The Night of the Living Tits / Why Rimbaud Went to Africa / David Lerner --
From The Exploding Parable / From Clay Man High House Head / From What I Have Learned About Boxing / From the Doomsday Bonnet, #16, #27 / Daniel Higgs --
Slammers.
The Slam / Alan Kaufman --
Marc Smith --
Lucky Strike No Strike Back --
The Stroke --
Patricia Smith --
Skinhead --
Medusa --
Lisa Martinovic --
Debt of Blood --
The Outlaw --
Welcome To McDonalds / Reg E. Gaines --
My Life as I Remember It / Bobby Miller --
In the Hands of the Enemy / Vytautas Pliura --
Jeffrey McDaniel --
Lineage --
Logic in the House of Sawed-off Telescopes --
Siamese Opposites --
Check One / Regie Cabico --
Maggie Estep --
I'm an Emotional Idiot.
Scab Maids on Speed --
Jenny's Shirt --
Like Lilly Like Wilson / Taylor Mali --
William, I Giggled with Your Girlfriend / Hank Hyena --
Project Princess / Tracie Morris --
Imagining America / Justin Chin --
Mandela / Evert Eden --
It's a Good Day / Sini Anderson --
Chicks Up Front / Sara Holbrook --
The Scalping / Daniel Ferri --
American Renegades --
Eileen Myles --
An American Poem --
Holes --
I Always Put My Pussy ... --
Malcolm / Umar Bin Hassan.
Gerry Gomez Pearlberg --
Marianne Faithfull's Cigarette --
First Date with the D.J. --
For Brandon Teena --
Sailor --
Gil Scott-Heron --
Evolution --
From Tomorrow --
Lenny Bruce --
What Is a Jew? --
How to Score --
To Come --
Africa / Richard Pryor --
I Told You I Like Indians / Simon J. Ortiz --
Hettie Jones --
Subway Poem --
In the Eye of the Beholder --
Words --
Two Horses / Joy Harjo --
The Crippled Artist / Thomas McGrath --
Jayne Cortez --
Global Inequalities.
The Heavy Headed Dance --
Barney Rosset and The Evergreen Review / Mike Topp --
Barney Rosset --
Ernest Hemingway --
The Little Sons of Fidel --
If my Enemy is A Clown, A Natural Born Clown / Ishmael Reed --
Luis J. Rodriguez --
To the police officer who refused to sit in the same room as my son because he's a "gang banger" --
Rosalie Has Candles --
Somebody Was Breaking Windows --
Chota --
Believe Me When I Say ... --
Meeting the Animal in Washington Square Park.
Don't Read That Poem! --
It's Dumb to be a Member of a Dominant Species / Alice Notley --
Kathe Izzo --
For Seattle Boy Sacred Mantle --
From I Am in Danger Nowhere in This World --
Joe Brainard --
Van Gogh --
Sick Art --
Art --
Death --
Ron Padgett --
The Fortune Cookie Man --
To Woody Woodpecker --
Mike Topp --
Rejected Mafia Nicknames --
Disappointment --
What Kind of Cars They Drove --
Just Go Fuck Yourself --
This Mind Is Buddah --
Tozan's Pretzels.
We Have Chocolate Pudding --
What Is the Beautiful? / Kenneth Patchen --
The Scattering of the Ashes: The Burial of a Poet / Miguel Algarin --
Miguel Pinero --
Seekin's the Cause --
Twice a Month Is Mother's Day --
Poem
Miguel Pinero /
David Henderson --
A Mongo Affair / Miguel Algrin --
John Bennet --
Ode to My Mother --
A Wish Come True --
Much Ado About Nothing --
Reasons to Drink --
Molecular Conspiracy --
Playing the Game --
John Farris --
Some Profession.
Brother --
Imago --
Note to Lorca --
Sonia Sanchez --
A Poem for Jesse --
On Passing thru Morgantown, Pa. --
Father Daniel Berrigan --
Prophecy --
Children in the Shelter --
Rehabilitative Report: We Can Still Laugh --
Georgetown Poems (7) --
Assata Shakur --
Culture --
Story --
Psalm XVI / Hubert Selby Jr. --
A chipped black hole / Bill Shields --
In the Vicinity of a Grocer / Michael Gizzi --
Lungs of Glass / Mike Golden --
Wallace Berman --
Untitled --
Opos.
Boxed City --
First & Last FearPoem --
Untitled --
Maura O'Connor --
Gravity --
Testimony --
At the End --
David Meltzer --
From Beat Thing --
From The Eyes, The Blood --
Compensation Portrait / Joel Lewis --
Steve Dalachinsky --
Incomplete Directions --
The Saxophone Factory --
The Bones #2 --
James Dean --
Meat Poets --
The Mimeo Revolution / D.R. Wagner --
A Bukowski Writing Lesson / Steve Richmond --
A.D. Winans --
Thinking About Then and Now --
The System.
Poem for the Working Man and the Upper Mobile Yuppie --
Poetry / William Wantling --
David Roskos --
Certain Prostitute --
Poem for Paulie --
Frozen Alley / Fritz Hamilton --
Jim Chandler --
Jailhouse Dreams #1 --
Dead Kid --
No Rain Sunday Morning --
Round Up / Ann Menebroker --
From Machine Gun / Todd Moore --
Fred Voss --
A Threat --
Termination --
Joan Jobe Smith --
Aboard the Bounty --
Land of a Thousand Dances --
Gerald Locklin --
Beyond B.F. Skinner.
Paul Cezanne: Self Portrait, 1875 --
Paul Cezanne: The Large Bathers, 1906 --
On Marvin Malone and The Wormwood Review / Alan Kaufman --
Ten Commandments for How to Successfully Publish a Little Magazine / Marvin Malone --
American Renegades --
Jim Morrison --
The American Night --
LAmerica --
From Resume / Jennifer Blowdryer --
Punk Rock Royalty / Iris Berry --
Video Violence / Lou Reed --
Montecito / Karen Finley --
On 115 / Melvin Van Peebles.
City Madness / Ray Bremser --
From Martin XIV / Jimmy Santiago Baca --
Chopped Scooter / Cal (With Danny Lyon) --
The Kid / Ai --
Geometry / Ken Kesey --
Song to Fidel (translated by Ed Dorn and Gordon Brotherston) / Che Guevara --
Leonard Cohen --
What Is A Saint --
Disguises --
Turtle Blues / Janis Joplin --
An Aging Radical Muses on His Conjugal Visits / Neil Ortenberg --
Collect Telegram from a Mad Dog / Hunter S. Thompson --
David Wojnarowicz.
Hobo on Flatcar Eastbound for St. Paul --
Young Boy in Bus Station Coffee Shop --
Man in Harbor Coffee Shop --
Jim Carroll --
8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain --
Facts --
Jukebox --
The Ocean Below --
With van Gogh --
Rimbaud Sees the Dentist --
School Prayer for the 80's / Abbie Hoffman --
Tuli Kupferberg --
The New America --
Great Moments in the History of Capitalism --
Where Is My Wandering Jew --
Paint It Red (and Black) --
The Babarians.
This Is the Babarians / David Lerner --
Bruce Isaacson --
Lost My Job & Wrote This Poem --
Poetry in Orange County --
In the Bookstore / Julia Vinograd --
Kathleen Wood --
Gregory --
The Wino, The Junkie, and The Lord --
I'm Not Mad / Vampyre Mike Kassel --
The Real Me / Kathi Georges --
I Was with Her Long Enough To Change Brands of Cigarettes / Bucky Sinister --
Danny Shot --
The Living Legend --
On Long Shot --
It's About the End of the World Stupid / Jack Wiler.
klipschutz --
America --
Dear Ezra --
As for Us / David Gollub --
(some) people have enough problems / Q.R. Hand --
Mal de Tete / Bana Witt --
American Renegades --
Homage to Hersch / Allen Ginsberg --
From High on the Beats / Herschel Silverman --
Wail Bar Night / Andy Clausen --
Mad Dogs of Trieste / Janine Pommy Vega --
The Woman at the Palace of the Legion of Honor / Neeli Cherkovski --
New York Guy in Berlin Night / Buddy Giovinazzo --
Career Move / Penny Arcade.
Murdered in the Middle of the Dance / Steven J. Bernstein --
Elsie John / Herbert Huncke --
Path / Jeff Gordon --
Just Say NO to Family Values / John Giorno --
Ira Cohen --
Electronic Multimedia Shamanism --
Letter to Caliban --
From Songs of the Revolution / Julian Beck --
Leaflet for Soldiers / Judith Malina --
Poem in the Manner of Paul Blackburn / Gerard Malanga --
First Lady / Eve Wood --
Henry J. Morro --
Marilyn Monroe Is Dead --
Barbie --
Eric Brown.
You Fucking Cunt --
Billie and Satchmo --
Harvesting Organs: On the Head-Injury Death of a 24 Year Old Boy in Vermont / Ed Dorn --
Ball & Chain Record Store / Ellyn Maybe --
Asteroid Poem #15 / FrancEyE --
Pact / Anne Waldman --
For Madeline Gleason / ruth weiss --
Charles Plymell --
Was Poe Afraid? --
Cool Hobohemians 1950's Bennies from Heaven Poem --
Displaced Poet / Paul Landry --
The states / George Tsongas --
In Memorian: Charles Mingus / Mikhail Horowitz.
For Frank / Kaye McDonough --
From Bones / Marc Olmsted --
Collaborating with Kerouac / David Amram --
Hey, Jack! / Jan Kerouac --
Jack Kerouac Returns to Lowell after 25 Years / Gerald Nicosia --
The Door for Love and Death / Laurel Ann Bogen --
Stuart Z. Perkoff --
Untitled --
The Suicide Room --
Love Is the Silence --
Untitled --
Tony Scibella --
Venice West --
Untitled --
Memoirs of a Nun of Fire / Philomene Long --
Skull / Nelson Gary.
7th Sound for John Garfield / James Ryan Morris --
Untitled / Rafael F.J. Alvarado --
You'll Despise Me for This, But I'm Going to Say It Anyway / John Thomas --
Venice / William J. Margolis --
Frank T. Rios --
Invocation --
& sometimes it all hangs crooked --
Ritual --
The Carma Bums --
The Carma Bums (Because This Is What America's All About) / S.A. Griffin --
Cartoons Are My Life / Michael Bruner --
S.A. Griffin --
I Ate Fig Newtons Until I Puked --
America Poem.
There Is a River --
Sunset Strip Self-Improvement Affirmations / Doug Knott --
No Mercy / Scott Wannberg --
Mike Mollett --
I Am the Bomb --
The Word --
American Renegades --
The San Francisco Oracle: A Brief History / Allen Cohen --
Michael McClure --
The God I Worship Is a Lion --
Jesus I Am Sick of the Spiritual Warfare! --
After the Cries of the Birds Has Stopped / Lawrence Ferlinghetti --
Characteristically / Philip Whalen --
In Transit / Lenore Kandel.
Seed Pods / Gary Snyder --
Astromancy / Phillip Lamantia --
Manifesto for Mutants / Ted Berk --
My Life / Michael Lally --
Downtown Woman / Julia Stein --
Ten Commandments of a Street Poet / Tony Medina --
Bob Flanagan --
Bukowski Poem --
Handcuffs --
From Slave Sonnet #1 --
From Slave Sonnet #7 --
From Slave Sonnet #10 --
The Wedding of Everything --
This Is the Land of Missed Opportunity / Steve Cannon --
Suzanne Goes Down / Rebecca Fransway.
On Prison Poetry / Janine Pommy Vega --
To Those / Mumia Abu-Jamal --
Sing Sing Sits Up The River / Alejo Dao'ud Rodriguez --
After All Those Years / Cecil Boatswain --
Fugitive / Frank Fissette --
My Room / Hannah Aquaah --
Lap 15512 / Herby Ehinger --
My Father / Mark "9-Box" Benyo --
Trapped / Israel Fernandez --
The Unbearables --
Introduction to The Unbearables / Marvin Taylor --
Archaeology / Bonnie Finberg --
Dead Louis / Tsaurah Litzsky.
Factory Still Life / Ron Kolm --
Kurt Cobain / Sparrow --
God Is Here / Michael Carter --
Moral / Merry Fortune --
The Bus Driver's Secret Song / Max Blagg --
Orgasm / Patricia Freed Ackerman --
Sound Effects / Janice Eidus --
Q/A / Jim Feast --
Write a fucking poem / Mike Golden --
Slave / David Huberman --
Them / C.X. Hunter --
The Professional / Joe Maynard --
Cafe Ennui / Sharon Mesmer --
Panoplistic Traditions in Memphis / Jill Rapaport.
Yardbirds of Vermont / Thaddeus Rutkowski --
Manhattan / Susan Scutti --
Thursday Night in the Park / Hal Sirowitz --
Business District / Mike Topp --
Spanish Girls / Claude Taylor --
Mendel's Law / David L. Ulin --
I Want the Nobel Prize / Albert Vitale --
Teeth & Totemism / Carl Watson --
Untitled / Diwan-i Hayan Kirmani, N. Pourjaundy, Peter Lamborn Wilson --
Red Snappers / Carol Wierzbicki --
Poets To Come / Walt Whitman.
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Published
New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, [1999].
Format
Book
Language
English
UPC
9781560252276
Notes
General Note
Chiefly poems from the second half of the 20th century.
General Note
Includes index.
Bibliography
Includes index.
Description
The outlandish and often controversial verses of bohemians, beatniks, hippies, punks, slackers, and other malcontents is collected in this primer of the dispossessed.
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Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kaufman, Alan. 1999. The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Thunder's Mouth Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kaufman, Alan. The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry Thunder's Mouth Press, 1999.
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