Deliberate prose: selected essays, 1952-1995

Foreword / Edward Sanders

Pt. 1. Politics and Prophecies. Poetry, Violence, and the Trembling Lambs. Back to the Wall. Demonstration or Spectacle As Example, As Communication. Coming to Terms with the Hell's Angels. The Fall of America Wins an Award. Nuts to Plutonium! Introduction to "Smoking Typewriters" Outline of Un-American Activities. Statement Written for Authors Take Sides on Vietnam. 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention. All Is Poetry. Television Address. Declaration of Three. China Trip. Statement to The Burning Bush. Thoughts and Recurrent Musing on Israeli Arguments. Statement Concerning Dissident Human Rights. An Indirect Encounter: India

Pt. 2. Drug Culture. U.S. Senate Statement. A National Hallucination. Preface and a Trip [LSD]. The Great Marijuana Hoax. Ginsberg Talks about Speed. Prefatory Remarks Concerning Leary's Politics of Ecstasy. Declaration of Independence for Dr. Timothy Leary. Om Ah Hum: 43 Temporary Questions on Dr. Leary

Pt. 3. Mindfulness and Spirituality. Public Solitude. Everybody Should Get High for the Next Ten Years. Prose Contribution to Cuban Revolution. Letter to Wall Street Journal. Anger Advice. Reflections on the Mantra. CBC Broadcast on Mantra. Meditation and Poetics. A Collage of Haiku ...

Pt. 4. Censorship and Sex Laws. Letter to Ralph Ginzberg. Thoughts on NAMBIA. Big Table Support Testimony. Open Letter Re: New York Review of Sex & Politics. Statement [on Censorship]. Noticing What Is Vivid. Political Correctness. C.O.P. Statement on Lenny Bruce. Committee on Poetry Charter Statement

Pt. 5. Autobiographical Fragments. Autobiographic Precis. Chamberlain's Nakeds. Early Influences. What Six Nice People Found in the Government's Drawers. Contemplation on Publications. Notes on Stanford Literary Acquisition of My Archives. Confrontation with Louis Ginsberg's Poems. Brother Poet

Pt. 6. Literary Technique and the Beat Generation. Notes Written on Finally Recording Howl. How Kaddish Happened. A Definition of the Beat Generation. The Six Gallery Reading. Abstraction in Poetry. Retrospect on Beat Generation. "When the Mode of the Music Changes, the Walls of the City Shake" Poetics: Mind Is Shapely, Art Is Shapely. What Way I Write. Poet's "Voice" Some Metamorphoses of Personal Prosody. Some Different Considerations in Mindful Arrangement of Open Verse Forms on the Page. Fourteen Steps for Revising Poetry. Meditation and Poetics. Exercises in Poetic Candor

Pt. 7. Writers. Liner Notes to Blake Record. Your Reason and Blake's System. On Walt Whitnam, Composed on the Tongue. Whitman's Influence: A Mountain Too Vast to Be Seen. Williams in a World of Objects. The Dharma Bums Review. The Great Rememberer. Kerouac's Ethic. To America: Kerouac's Pomes All Sizes. William S. Burroughs Academy Blurbs. Junky: An Appreciation. Junky: Introduction. Recollections of Burroughs Letters. William S. Burroughs Nobel Prize. Corso Academy Blurb. Introduction to Gasoline. On Corso's Virtues. Peter Orlovsky Clean Asshole Poems Blurb. Carl Solomon Emergency Messages Blurb. Blurb for Herbert Huncke's Journal. On Huncke's Book. Michael McClure Guggenheim Recommendation. My Mythic Thumbnail Biography of Gary Snyder. Gary Snyder Recommendation. Kenneth Rexroth: 1905-1982. Robert Duncan [Obit]. The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley Blurb. On Creeley's Ear Mind. Foreword to John Wieners' Selected Poems. Pieces of a Song by Diane di Prima Blurb. Lawrence Ferlinghetti Academy Blurb. Makeup on Empty Space by Anne Waldman Blurb. Contact Highs by Alan Ansen Blurb. Ray Bremser and His Poetry. Antler Factory Blurb. Antler's "Last Words" Introduction to Without Doubt by Andy Clausen. Foreword to Quiet Lives by David Cope. Space by Eliot Katz, an Introduction

Pt. 8. Further Appreciations. Robert LaVigne Exhibit. Lamantia As Forerunner. On Henri Michaux. Genet's Commencement Discourse. Remembering Auden. Visas for Lennon and Ono. Lennon/Ono and Poetic Tradition. Beatles Essay. Andy Warhol [Festschrift]. Introduction to First Thought Best Thought. Robert Frank to 1985

A Man. Hydrogen Jukebox. Hiro Yamagata's Holy Ghost XX Century Automobiles. Drooker's Illuminations. Remembering Chaim Gross. John Cage: 1912-1992. Living Theatre and Its U.S. Critics. Foreword for Out of This World.