Beat Scene Magazine No. 31 -- Richard Brautigan Special Issue Plus Philip Lamantia, Allen Ginsberg's Yugoslavia Letters, Eldridge Cleaver, and Herbert Huncke
Not a ton of Bukowski in Beat Scene Magazine No. 31 other than a review of The Captain is Out to Lunch and The Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship, BUKOWSKI ZINE No. 4 and the King of Poets CD. However, there is a feature Philip Lamantia, who was the third poet in Penguin Modern Poets 13 with Bukowski and Harold Norse. Richard Brautigan receives substantial coverage, with an extract from Keith Abbott's memoir titled "Downstream From Trout fishing In America," plus Kevin Ring's "West Coast Dreamer," an account of Brautigan's lonely death. Other features include a tribute to publisher James Laughlin and New Directions, "The Poets, The Players and The Freedom Vigilantes" by Jay Jones on the Beat origins of the Summer of Love, and Jim Burns' profile of surrealist poet Philip Lamantia. The second half of the issue covers a review of new books on Paul and Jane Bowles and Herbert Huncke by Sophia Nitrate and Colin Cooper, a selection of Allen Ginsberg's letters to Yugoslavia drawn from the Vojo Sindolic Beat Archive, and closes with "The Beat Scene Review Section," covering books, records, and overlooked items related to Kerouac, Burroughs, Robert Creeley, Chet Baker, Ginsberg, Wendell Berry, Hubert Selby Jr, Peter Coyote, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Janine Pommy Vega, William Saroyan, Otis Redding, Charles Bukowski, and more. The page also features a striking photo of Herbert Huncke, taken by Allen Ginsberg, sourced from The Herbert Huncke Reader (Bloomsbury Press). This copy is in Near Fine + condition with some light wear to the covers. Box 46.