Bathtub Gin #8


cover by Dee Rimbaud		 POETRY: Gordon Annand | Leonard Cirino | Nils Clausson |Kevin L. Donihe | Jennifer Gomoll | Andrey Kneller | Sheryl Nelms | Sam Osterhout | Stephanie Scarborough | Rebecca Leah Schumejda | Dan Sicoli | David Stafford | Virgil Suarez | Susan Terris | Lara Verrochi
PROSE: Christopher Essex | Allen Purdy
ESSAY: G.D. McFetridge | Christoher Harter (tribute to Gregory Corso w/ photo by Robert Wilson)
ARTWORK/PHOTOGRAPHY: John Gohmann | Claudio Parentela | Dee Rimbaud | Harland Ristau

Reviews...

Editor Christopher Harter focuses on the nature of the American small-press scene, past and present, and how the value of it has to be recognised before vital documents are lost forever. He cites the increasing disappearance of first drafts through the use of computer technology and wonders if future generations will be able to consult prime documents the way we can at the moment.
Plenty for the reader to get his or her teeth into in this issue: art, articles, a section of autobiography from Allen Purdey. Nils Clausson pastiches the Auden of MISS GEE most effectively in THE BALLAD OF WYSTAN:
And here you walk beside me
In the desert of my thought,
With your lost ambiguous brilliance
And the wit time set at naught.
G.D.McFetridge takes a swipe at the way some poets seem to appear out of nowhere in prestigious magazines - something which ought to take years to achieve after establishing a long track record in small-press magazines - in a fascinating article, THE BIG FIXX.
The issue closes with a short survey of the life and work of the late Gregory Corso, considered along with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs to be one of the original "big four" of the Beat Movement. --John Francis Haines, New Hope International

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