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ARIZONA, LOUJON, 1968, Hardcover w Dustjacket

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[Loujon Press] 1968 THE OUTSIDER 4 & 5 Limited to 500 Copies HOMAGE TO KENNETH PATCHEN Beat Poetry

The Outsider, Vol. 2, Nos. 4-5. Embracing a 46-Page Homage to Patchen. With pressed flower from near Geronimo's grave.

Publisher Loujon Press 1968/69

Publication Date 1968

Binding Hardcover

Edition 1st Edition

Condition Fine

Dust Jacket Condition Very Good

First edition, issued in both wrappers and hardcover in printed dust-wrapper and photo-illustrated paper wrappers, 7.25” x 10.25”, 200 pages, 500 copies. Associate Editor: Louise “Gypsy Lou” Webb, illustrations: Ben Tibbs, Frank Salantrie, Kelsie Harder. Laid into this edition is “a sprig of flora from within a mile of Geronimo’s grave”, picked by Gypsy Lou and sealed in wax paper with letterpress printed partial wrap-around band.

Contents:

1. Kaprow, Allan. “Moving, A Happening” – 2:4/5, 0
   Goodger-Hill, Trevor. “Editorial” – 2:4/5, 1
   Plymell, Charles. “In Kansas” – 2:4/5, 2
   Taylor, David. “Panda” – 2:4/5, 3
   Edson, Russell. “The Toy Maker” – 2:4/5, 19
   Edson, Russell. “The Cult” – 2:4/5, 19
   Perchik, Simon. untitled [“He Wants To Know…”] – 2:4/5, 20
   Perchik, Simon. untitled [“The Kids Were First…”] – 2:4/5, 20
   Major, Clarence. “Weak Dynamite” – 2:4/5, 22
   Wantling, William. “That Night” – 2:4/5, 24
   Bartlett, Elizabeth. “The Walnut Tree” – 2:4/5, 26
   Greenberg, Alvin. “Taking A Stand” – 2:4/5, 27
   Severy, Bruce. “How We Do Things” – 2:4/5, 28
   Severy, Bruce. “Mud” – 2:4/5, 28
   Severy, Bruce. “From 400 Yards” – 2:4/5, 28
   Goodger-Hill, Trevor. “A Personal History” – 2:4/5, 30
   Creighton, John. “Green Hides, Lines To A Pale Lady” – 2:4/5, 32
   Eigner, Larry. untitled [“March The Route…”] – 2:4/5, 35
   Eigner, Larry. untitled [“The Great American Ballot-Box…”] – 2:4/5, 36
   Bukowski, Charles. “Kaakaa & Other Imolations” – 2:4/5, 37
   Bukowski, Charles. “Beef Tongue, for J.T.” – 2:4/5, 39
   Bukowski, Charles. “Like A Flyswatter” – 2:4/5, 41
   Bukowski, Charles. “The Last Round” – 2:4/5, 42
   Di Prima, Diane. “From: Spring and Autumn Annals: A Celebration for Freddie” – 2:4/5, 45
   Levertov, Denise. “Late June 1968” – 2:4/5, 51
   Levertov, Denise. “Not to Have” – 2:4/5, 51
   Durrell, Lawrence. “?” – 2:4/5, 52
   Mccord, Howard. “Descent into Birth” – 2:4/5, 53
   Meltzer, David. “This is a Nation of Keepers Who Had No Time to Become Gods” – 2:4/5, 54
   Cooperman, Stanley. “New York: February, 1968” – 2:4/5, 55
   Cooperman, Stanley. “Cappelbaum’s Halloween” – 2:4/5, 56
   Katz, Steve. “One Kind of Tune” – 2:4/5, 58
   Katz, Steve. “& A More Similar Tune” – 2:4/5, 58
   Randall, Margaret. “Erongaricuaro, for My Friends at the Molino” – 2:4/5, 59
   Wright, Jay. “Pastel” – 2:4/5, 60
   Morris, Richard. “Foreword to Keslie Artwork” – 2:4/5, 61
   Harder, Kelsie. untitled [“Cartoons”] – 2:4/5, 61
   Hamburger, Michael. “Travelling” – 2:4/5, 77
   Stoloff, Carolyn. “Wind and the Earth” – 2:4/5, 79
   Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“It Came on Me…”] – 2:4/5, 80
   Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“An Old House…”] – 2:4/5, 80
   Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“Oh It Wasn’t So Much…”] – 2:4/5, 81
   Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“Too Many Years Pass…”] – 2:4/5, 82
   Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“Leaving This Clumsy Town…”] – 2:4/5, 82
   Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“Could I Believe…”] – 2:4/5, 83
   Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“Heaped Between The Letters The Postcards…”] – 2:4/5, 83
   Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“The Madness Is Power And What…”] – 2:4/5, 83
   Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“I Spoke To Jenny…”] – 2:4/5, 84
   Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“Legendary Men In The Forest…”] – 2:4/5, 84
   Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“And When They Killed Him…”] – 2:4/5, 84
   Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“Finding New Bones…”] – 2:4/5, 85
   Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“Some Jerk With Baltic-Brained…”] – 2:4/5, 86
   Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“This Tender Minute…”] – 2:4/5, 86
   Grapes, Marcus J. untitled [“Some Of Us…”] – 2:4/5, 87
   Haines, John. “Under The Barracks” – 2:4/5, 88
   Haines, John. “In The Styrofoam Mountains” – 2:4/5, 88
   Haines, John. “From The Rooftops” – 2:4/5, 89
   Kelly, Robert. “Landing Cod (From The Common Shore)” – 2:4/5, 90
   Gast, David K. “Teresa” – 2:4/5, 93
   Patchen, Miriam. untitled [“Letter To The Editors”] – 2:4/5, 94
   Sandberg, David. untitled [“Please Do Not Ring Or Knock…”] – 2:4/5, 96
   Thomas, Norman. untitled [“If You Visit Patchen…”] – 2:4/5, 97
   Antoninus, Brother. untitled [“Word Of The Outsider’s Homage…”] – 2:4/5, 98
   Ginsberg, Allen. untitled [“I Met Kenneth Patchen At City Lights…”] – 2:4/5, 99
   May, James Boyer. untitled [“Kenneth Patchen’s Physical Presence…”] – 2:4/5, 100
   Norse, Harold. untitled [“He Is Part Of Youth…”] – 2:4/5, 105
   Brand, Millen. untitled [“I Used To Know Kenneth In The Village…”] – 2:4/5, 106
   Macdiarmid, Hugh. untitled [“I Have Been To The United States…”] – 2:4/5, 108
   Glover, David. untitled [“I Recall The First Thing I Ever Read…”] – 2:4/5, 109
   Rexroth, Kenneth. untitled [“Kenneth Patchen Is One Of…”] – 2:4/5, 112
   Corrington, John William. untitled [“I Still Remember…”] – 2:4/5, 113
   Porter, Bern. untitled [“Kenneth’s Monumental…”] – 2:4/5, 116
   Detro, Gene. “Interview: Patchen Interviewed” – 2:4/5, 117
   Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. untitled [“Kenneth Patchen & E.E. Cummings…”] – 2:4/5, 129
   Yates, Peter. untitled [“Know Him, This Man…”] – 2:4/5, 129
   Meltzer, David. untitled [“Here Is A Man Speaking…”] – 2:4/5, 130
   Young, Lafe. untitled [“Now, Nostalgically, I Realize…”] – 2:4/5, 131
   Conroy, Jack. untitled [“Since My Friend Webb…”] – 2:4/5, 132
   Eckman, Frederick. untitled [“A Decade Ago In A Review…”] – 2:4/5, 133
   Miller, Henry. untitled [“The First Thing One Would Remark…”] – 2:4/5, 134
   Blazek, Douglas. “A Few Small Things” – 2:4/5, 138
   Enslin, Ted. untitled [“As If It Were My Eye…”] – 2:4/5, 139
   Purdy, Al. “The Jackhammer Syndrome” – 2:4/5, 140
   Shelton, Richard. “The Crossing” – 2:4/5, 142
   Shelton, Richard. “& The Scars Will Be Covered” – 2:4/5, 143
   Wild, Peter. “Engine” – 2:4/5, 144
   Wild, Peter. “Snake Skin” – 2:4/5, 144
   Wild, Peter. “Saturday Afternoon On Sugar Loaf Mtn” – 2:4/5, 145
   Miller, Brown. “The Dark Oval” – 2:4/5, 146
   Duberstein, Helen. “Joke” – 2:4/5, 147
   Flaherty, Douglas. “Mrs. Godkin’s Son” – 2:4/5, 148
   Wilson, Keith. “All The Vanished Faces” – 2:4/5, 149
   Wilson, Keith. “The Wind Dragon in Spring” – 2:4/5, 150
   Holland, Barbara A. “Dust-Devil Man” – 2:4/5, 151
   Fowler, Gene. “The Natural History of Woman” – 2:4/5, 152
   Frumkin, Gene. “Poem for Childhood” – 2:4/5, 157
   levy, d.a. “For The Pigs, Rats & Adorable other Beasts of Saintly Cleveland, O” – 2:4/5, 157a
   Merton, Thomas. “Tibud Maclay” – 2:4/5, 158
   Bly, Robert. “Blown-Up German Fortifications Near Collioure” – 2:4/5, 159
   Norse, Harold. “Return to Pompeii” – 2:4/5, 160
   Gardien, Kent. “Poem Based on a List by Luis Bunel” – 2:4/5, 161
   Higgins, Dick. “Four Degrees” – 2:4/5, 164
   Antin, David. “Sociology” – 2:4/5, 166
   Hollo, Anselm. “Bouzouki Music” – 2:4/5, 168
   Krauss, Ruth. “Drunk Boat” – 2:4/5, 169
   Kryss, T.L. “Circus” – 2:4/5, 170
   Kryss, T.L. “The Withered Lemming of the River” – 2:4/5, 170
   Dowden, George. “Morning Song for My Girl by the Sea” – 2:4/5, 171
   Brown, Michael. “The Seventh Month” – 2:4/5, 172
   Kandel, Lenore. “Muir Beach Mythology / September” – 2:4/5, 173
   Perchik, Simon. “Four Photo-Poems” – 2:4/5, 174
   Shustak, Larence. untitled photography – 2:4/5, 175
   Knowles, Allison. “Journal of the Identical Lunch” – 2:4/5, 182
   Williams, Emmett. untitled [“North is this Way…”] – 2:4/5, 184
   Mac Low, Jackson. untitled [“Peace of Resembling…”] – 2:4/5, 186
   Johnson, Kay. “The Emerald City, For Gregory Corso” – 2:4/5, 188
   Cocteau, Jean. “Creation Before Life” – 2:4/5, 190
   Johnson, Ray. “Face Collage” – 2:4/5, 192
   Hansen, Al. “Gat” – 2:4/5, 193

During the years 1960 through 1971, a period generally known in publishing history as the era of the "mimeograph revolution," husband and wife team of Jon Edgar Webb and Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb owned and operated the Loujon Press. Loujon published four issues of a literary journal, The Outsider, and two books each by poet Charles Bukowski and novelist Henry Miller.

A pioneer of high-quality, independent publishing, Loujon Press was instrumental in launching and supporting the careers of literary icons Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Langston Hughes, Diane di Prima, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, LeRoi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka), and William S. Burroughs, among many others.

Though Loujon published many of the Beat Generation, Black Mountain, and other avant-garde poets and writers whose work appeared in the scores of cheaply produced mimeograph publications of the era, Jon and Louise Webb published The Outsider and their four books in high quality, labor-intensive editions. In the Fall of 1961, Jon and Louise “Gypsy Lou” Webb published the first issue of their avant-garde poetry and prose magazine, The Outsider. Handset and letterpress printed, the journal straddled the line between traditional books and modern works of art, and the journal made an outsized impact on the literary world, shining a light on the talents of Beat Generation, Black Mountain and other avant-garde and counterculture poets, writers, and artists of the era.These publications received at least as much praise for their quality as physical artifacts as they did for the poems and prose that made up their editorial matter.

The Loujon Press failed to survive the 1971 death of Jon Edgar Webb. The day-to-day responsibilities of maintaining the Loujon Press were difficult for two people to maintain. They proved impossible for one person.

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