From the Book - First edition.
Introduction / by Michael Schumacher. --
I. Poems: Bricklayer's lunch hour--
A supermarket in California--
Change : Kyoto- Tokyo Express--
City midnight junk strains--
II. Songs: September on Jessore Road--
III. Essays: Poetry, violence, and the trembling lambs--
"When the mode of the music changes, the walls of the city shake"--
Prose contribution to Cuban Revolution--
Statement of Allen Ginsberg, poet, New York City, hearings before a special subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary : U.S. Senate--
"The fall of America" wins an award--
A definition of the Beat Generation--
Statement [on censorship]. --
IV. Journals: New York : ca. late-winter 1949
San Francisco : June 8, 1955
Pacallpa, Peru : June 11, 1960
Benares, India : February 22, 1963
Havana, Cuba : Feb. 18-19, 1965
Cherry Valley, New York : October 22, 1969.
V. Interviews: The Paris Review interview, 1965
The Craft interview (New York Quarterly), 1970.
To Neal Cassady, ca. April 21, 1949--
To John Clellon Holmes, June 16, 1949--
To Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, ca. February 1952--
To Louis Ginsberg, ca. late-March 1956--
To Richard Eberhart, May 18, 1956--
To Lawrence Ferlinghetti, April 3, 1957--
To William S. Burroughs, June 10, 1960--
To Jack Kerouac, May 11, 1962--
To Nicanor Parra, August 20, 1965--
To Robert Creeley, November 28, 1967--
To Gary Snyder, July 8, 1968--
To Diana Trilling, January 15, 1979. --
VII. Photographs: AG on rooftop, 1953--
Jack Kerouac on fire escape, 1953 --
Williams S. Burroughs, 1953--
Neal Cassady and Natalie Jackson, 1955--
San Francisco apartment, 1955--
Group portrait, Tangier, 1961--
Neal Cassady and Timothy Leary, 1964--
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1984--
William S. Burroughs, 1991--
Self-portrait on 70th birthday, 1996.