Jim Burns' "Anarchists, Beats and Dadaists" (2016)




UK: Penniless Press Productions (book), 2016.
9" x 6" x 0.625", 214 numbered pages, softcover, perfect bound POD, ISBN 978-1-326-44654-3.

Anarchists, Beats and Dadaists, a book of essays on various artists by Jim Burns, and published, POD, by Penniless Press Productions (UK) in 2016.

This includes "Brion Gysin," pp. 71–73, a short biography and review of Gysin's The Last Museum. This was previously published in The Kerouac Connection, issue 12, 1986.

Contents: 

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • "Personal Modernisms"
  • "Alger Hiss"
  • "Blood on Steel"
  • "British Writers and M15"
  • "Woody Guthrie"
  • "Edward Dorn/Amiri Baraka"
  • "Alan Ansen"
  • "Lawrence Ferlinghetti"
  • "Bob Kaufman"
  • "Kerouac and the Beats"
  • "Catching Up with Kerouac"
  • "Writing Beat"
  • "Brion Gysin"
  • "Exodus"
  • "Janet Richards"
  • "Discovery"
  • "The Beat Scene"
  • "Between Worlds"
  • "Fielding Dawson"
  • "Destruction Was My Beatrice"
  • "Tristan Tzara"
  • "Joan Gilbert"
  • "Two American Poets"
  • "Malcolm Cowley"
  • "New Fiction, 1972"
  • "Walt Whitman"
  • "The Hosanna Man"
  • "The Street of Wonderful Possibilities"
  • "The Taste in My Mind"
  • "An Unholy Row"
  • "Tubby Hayes"
  • "Underground London"
  • "Bopper"
  • "Border Trouble"
  • "Love from Uncles Bert and Joe"
  • "Are You Sure It's Tonight?"
  • Notes

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