The American Literary Anthology. Second Annual Collection. Edited by George Plimpton and Peter Ardery. Random House, 1969, p. 56.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "It's Raining in Love" but omitted the last 13 lines. Thus, the full poem apeared in the 1970 anthogy in this series.

The American Literary Anthology. Third Annual Collection. Edited by George Plimpton and Peter Ardery. Viking, 1970, pp. 384-385.
Corrected version

Reprints Brautigan's poem "It's Raining in Love" The 1969 anthology in this series omitted the last 13 lines of this poem, so it was included in full here.

Another World: A Second Anthology of Works from the St. Marks Poetry Project. Edited by Anne Waldman. Bobbs-Merrill, 1971, p. 345.

Reprints four Brautigan poems: " Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork," It's Time To Train Yourself," Two Guys Get Out of a Car," and Punitive Ghosts Like Steam-Driven Tennis Courts."

Also work by Tom Clark, Johyn Weiners, and Joanne Kyger.

Dugdale, Anthony. "Romantic Renegades." Architectural Design, vol. 48, no. 7, 1978

Reprints Brautigan's poem "Let's Voyage into the New American House."

"Yoru ni nagareru kawa." Asahi Shinbun, [Tokyo, Japan], Evening Edition, 6 June 1983, p. 5.
Translated by Shuntaro Tanikawa.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Night Flowing River." in Japanese.

Beatitude, no. 1, 9 May 1959, n. pg.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets with illustrated front cover of construction paper; No back cover.

Background
First publication of the Brautigan poem "The Whorehouse at the Top of Mount Rainier."

Also featured work by William J. Margolis, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, Monty Pike, B. Uronovitz, Robert Stock, Dave DeSilver, Bob Hartman, Mark Green, Carol Mann, John Richardson, Pierre Henri Delattre, Lew Gardner, and Joe Gould.

Beatitude was a San Francisco beatnik magazine founded by poets Bob Kaufman, John Kelly, and William J. Margolis. Issues 1-7 published weekly at 14 Bannam Alley. Issues 8 until cessation of publication at the end of the year were published monthly at the Bread and Wine Mission, 510 Greenwich Street, San Francisco, California.

Beatitude, vol. 4, 30 May 1959.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets with illustrated front cover.

Background
First publication of four Brautigan poems: "The American Submarine," "A Postcard from the Bridge," "That Girl," and "The Sink."

"The Sink", reprints the second stanza of Brautigan's 1957 poem "The World Will Never End."

Also featured work by Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, Ruth Weiss, Richard McBride, Stan Persky, and William Margolis.

Beatitude was a San Francisco beatnik magazine founded by poets Bob Kaufman, John Kelly, and William J. Margolis. Issues 1-7 published weekly at 14 Bannam Alley. Issues 8 until cessation of publication at the end of the year were published monthly at the Bread and Wine Mission, 510 Greenwich Street, San Francisco, California.

Beatitude vol. 9, 18 Sep. 1959.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets with illustrated front cover.

Background
First publication of the Brautigan poem "Swandragons." This issue also featured work by Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, David Meltzer, Bob Kaufman, William Margolis, Ron Padgett, Barbara Moraff, Richard McBride, Peter Orlovsky, and Philip Lamantia.

Beatitude was a San Francisco beatnik magazine founded by poets Bob Kaufman, John Kelly, and William J. Margolis. Issues 1-7 published weekly at 14 Bannam Alley. Issues 8 until cessation of publication at the end of the year were published monthly at the Bread and Wine Mission, 510 Greenwich Street, San Francisco, California.

Beatitude. no. 20, Mar. 1969.
Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, California.

Reprints four Brautigan poems: "The Harbor," "The Double-Bed Gallows," "Adrenalin Mother"," and "Death is a Beautiful Parked Car Only."

Beatitude Anthology. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1960, pp. 34-36.

Reprints five Brautigan poems: "The American Submarine," "A Postcard from the Bridge," "That Girl," and "The Whorehouse at the Top of Mount Rainier," and "Swandragons."

The Beatles' Illustrated Lyrics. Dell, 1975.
208 pages
First publication of the Brautigan's introduction, "The Silence of Flooded Houses." to this collection of lyrics and over 100 photographs. Keith Abbott said this essay was a good example of Brautigan's inability to write journalism. For this assignment, like others, Abbot said Brautigan "spun out short, metaphorical fantasies" more dependent on his imagination, fueled by his friends and activities, for ideas than his ability to report on some event (Keith Abbott 88).

Berkeley Review, vol. 1, no. 3, 1957, pp. 14-15.
Published 1921 Walnut Street, Berkeley, California, 1956-1957. Edited/published by William P. Barlow, Jr., George Huppert, and C. A. Tong. Published only one volume (with three issues) from Winter 1956 through 1957.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "The Horse That Had A Flat Tire." Also reprints his "The Return of the Rivers." Also featured work by Walter Ballenger, Adrian Stoutenberg, Barbara Cochran, May Swenson, Robert Beloof, Samuel Menashe, Donald Gutierrez, David Cornel DeJong, John Tagliabue, Anthony Ostroff, Richard Wilbur, Richard Eberhart, and Robert Horan.

Big Venus. Edited by Nick Kimberly. Big Venus, 1969, p. 1.

Reprints the Brautigan poem, "Feel Free to Marry Emily Dickinson."

Only two issues of this poetry magazine were issued. Also featured work by Clayton Eshelman, Claude Pelieu, Goerge Dowden, and others. Published in London, 102 Southhampton Row.

Blue Suede Shoes, .424, 1973. p. n. pg.
Published at 1146 Sutter, Berkeley, California. Edited by Keith Abbott.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets. Several issues, variously numbered. See "Background" below.

First publication of three Brautigan poems: "Montana Inventory," "Oak," and "Ben." Brautigan listed as a member of the "Board of Editors," along with John Ashbery, Andrei Codrescu, "Our Gal Flo," and Robert Creeley. Also featured work by Joyce Holland, Michael Sowl, Guillaume Appollinaire, Keith Abbott, Carlos Castaneda, Jr., Richard Snyder, Barry Alpert, Pat[rick] Nolan, and a Opal Nations-Keith Abbott collaboration.

Background
Volume 1 Numbers 1-15 (1968?- 1972?) were edited by Keith Abbott and Steve Carey. Numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 published at 1007 Lake Whatcom Blvd., Bellingham, Washington 98225.
Number 5, published as a book titled , Pat Nolan in a Buick Twenty Poems by Bob Hope was devoted to poems by Pat[rick] Nolan. Published (150 copies) at 724 Lottie Street, Monterey, California 93940. Twenty five copies were signed with a poem by the author.
Number 6 (1968) published in Monterey, California.
Number 7, published as a book titled Fleur-De-Lis, was devoted to poems by Steve Carey. Published (150 copies) in Monterey, California. Twenty copies were signed with various embellishments added by the author.
Number 8 (1971), published as a book titled Thick and Thin, was devoted to prose and poetry by Keith Abbott. Published (1,000 copies) in Monterey, California. Fifty copies were signed with a poem by the author.
Number 9, titled "The American Indian Issue," was published in Monterey, California.
Number 10, published as a book titled 2X, was devoted to prose by Keith Abbott and Michael Sowl. Published (175 copies) in Monterey, California.
Number 11, published (200 copies) by Strange Faeces Press, 42a, Pembridge Road, Notting Hill Gate, London W11, England. Edited by Keith Abbott.
Number 12 (1972), published as a book titled The Best Deal I Ever Made, was devoted to prose by Keith Abbott. Published in Monterey, California.
Number 13, called the "To hell and back" issue, published in Monterey, California. Edited by Keith Abbott and Harry Heilman.
Number 14 (1972), published as a book titled Hero Pills, was devoted to 1968-1969 stories by Keith Abbott. Published in Monterey, California.
Number 15 was edited by "Keith Abbott & Rhubarb." Published in Monterey, California.
Each issue contained prose and poetry work by modern American and British writers, translations of French and Spanish writers, parodies of American poetry, found poems, and editorials. Numbers 16-18 were to be Abbott's novel Gush, A Novel Starring the Gush Family about The Unemployment Problems in California.

The Decimal Series began after Volume 1, Number 15 with Number .5 ("The Organized Religion Issue," published in Berkeley, California) and progressed backwards: Number .314159265 ("The Pi Issue," published in Berkeley, California), Number .424 (published in Berkeley, California, 1973?), Number .016 (Face, devoted to poetry by Michael-Sean Lazaaarchuk, published in Berkeley, California), Number .406 (Chocolate Winter?, devoted to poetry by Michael Sowl, published in Berkeley, California, 1974?), Number .017 (published in Berkeley, California), and Number .386 (Brain 10, devoted to poetry "by the students in Miss Gatenby's 9th grade classes in Room 10 at Emeryville High." Published at 1020 Cornell, Albany, California 94706 in 1976).

"A Taste of the Taste of Brautigan." California Living, 16 May 1971, pp. 7-10.
The magazine of the San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle.

Introduction reads, "Richard Brautigan, an Aquarian born in Tacoma, Washington, January 30, 1935, has grown from an unknown poet of the Haight Ashbury during the days of the Flower Children, to one of the country's leading writers—in less than ten years. Among his works, widely read and discussed on college campuses—as well as in the general mainstream—are (novels) Trout Fishing in America, A Confederate General from Big Sur and (poetry) The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster and Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt."

First punblication of seven Brautigan poems: "They Are Really Having Fun", "We Meet. We Try. Nothing Happens, But", "Home Again Home Again Like a Turtle To His Balcony", "You Will Have Unreal Recollections of Me", "Finding Is Losing Something Else", "Impasse", and "Homage to Charles Atlas". Photographs, including one of Brautigan, by Edmund Shea.

California Living, 18 Nov. 1973, p. 16.
The magazine of the San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "For Fear You Will Be Alone." Illustrated with photograph by Edmund Shea.

"Four Stories for Aki and Other Treats." California Living, 14 Jan. 1979, pp. 5-7.
The magazine of the San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle. Described as "a compendium of short stories."

First publication of seven Brautigan stories: "The Short Story", "Walking Toward December". "The Purpose," "Meat," "The Great Golden Telescope," "Harmonica High"," and "Her Last Known Boyfriend"." The last of these was retitled "Her Last Known Boyfriend a Canadian Airman" in The Tokyo-Montana Express.

The Caxton Poetry Review, vol. 1, no. 2, Winter 1957, p. ***.
Published 7 January 1957.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "A Correction."

Background
The Caxton Review was a quarterly magazine edited by Albert R. Temple and Evelyn T. Browning.

This was Brautigan's first professional publication after moving to San Francisco. His second was If the Wind Should Borrow Time, published in The Caxton Poetry Review, vol. 1, no. 3, Spring 1957, p. 17.

Lawrence Wright says Brautigan, wanting to meet poet Ron Loewinsohn, handed him this poem, which responds to Carl Sandburg's famous poem "Fog" (Wright 34). Wright, Lawrence. "The Life and Death of Richard Brautigan." Rolling Stone, no. 445, 11 Apr. 1985, pp. 29, 31, 34, 36, 38, 40, 59, 61.

Loewinshon said Brautigan handed him "a little notebook. On one page was a poem in this incredible handwriting, a six-year-old's handwriting, which was called 'A Correction' ... . I chuckled, handed the notebook back to him, and he just walked away" (Peter Manso and Michael McClure 65).

The Caxton Poetry Review, vol. 1, no. 3, Spring 1957, p. 17.
24 pages. Side-stapled into letterpress card folder. 191 x 138 mm. Pamphlet. Published 12 April 1957. 50 cents, on cover.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "If the Wind Should Borrow Time."

Background
This twelve-line poem is Brautigan's second professional publication after moving to San Francisco. The first was "A Correction", published in The Caxton Poetry Review, vol. 1, no. 2, Winter 1956.

This was Brautigan's fifteenth appearance in print (at age 22), his sixth outside Oregon (and Nevada), and his fifth outside a newspaper.

The Caxton Review was a quarterly magazine edited by Albert R. Temple and Evelyn T. Browning. Publisher: Caxton Press, Cincinnati, Ohio. No subsequent issues known beyond Number 3. The period July-December 1957.

Change, 1963, n. pg.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Coffee."

The only issue of Brautigan's own literary journal, edited with Ron Loewinsohn, Change. Also called Change, the Fastest Car on Earth (Peter Manso and Michael McClure 65). Mimeographed sheets (8.5" x 11") with a photograph of Loewinsohn and Brautigan on the front cover. Published in San Francisco, California.

"Some Montana Poems/1973." City Lights Anthology. Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. City Lights Books, 1974, p. 95.

First publication of three Brautigan poems "Night" (one of two Brautigan poems with this title), "Dive Bombing the Lower Emotions" and "Nine Crows: Two Out of Sequence."

A larger format version of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Journal, where, in the first issue, Brautigan published three chapte rs from his then forthcoming novel Trout Fishing in America. Brautigan was part of a group of writers included who had been published by or were associated with City Lights or San Francisco: Jack Micheline, Jerry Kamstra, Charles Bukowski, Gail Chiarello, and Robert Creeley. Also included was poetry by Harold Norse; jailed Iranian poet Reza Baraheni; Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro; Isabelle Eberhardt, a young European who lived among the Muslims in North Africa; Jean Genet; a new translation of Arthur Rimbaud's A Season in Hell, writing by Black Power advocate Huey Newton, and Allen Ginsberg's record of his meeting with Ezra Pound (Barry Silesky 185-186).

"Trout Fishing in America." City Lights Journal, no. 1, 1963, pp. 27-32.
112 pages; Paperback, perfect bound with printed wrappers. Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA. Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Front cover photograph by Gary Snyder of Allen Ginsberg in the Central Himalayas. Dedicated to e. e. cummings and William Carlos Williams.

Featured three chapters from Brautigan's upcoming book "Trout Fishing in America" : "Worsewick," "The Salt Creek Coyotes," and "A Half-Sunday Homage to a Whole Leonardo da Vinci." Also featured a photograph of Brautigan. These three chapters are the earliest known publication of any part of the novel Trout Fishing in America.

In addition to this work by Brautigan, this issue also featured works by W. C. Williams, Anselm Hollo, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Daniel Moore, Ed Sanders, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Harold Norse, Ted Joans, Michael McClure, Stuart Z. Perkofff, Mayakovsky (translated by Hirschman and Erlich), Henri Michaux (translated by Corman), Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Antonin Artaud (translated by Rattray), and Bruce Conner. Poetry by Daniel Moore and Harold Norse was included in the first paperback collections published by Grove Press in 1957.

Of Brautigan, Barry Silesky said, "Also included was fiction writer Richard Brautigan, who had been writing and reading his poetry around North Beach since the fifties, even selling copies ... for small change on street corners. Three sections of Brautigan's strange, inviting, deceptively simple Trout Fishing in America appeared; it was an important early exposure for him that helped open the way to a wider audience, and to publication of that novel in 1967, as well as his previously written comic Confederate General in [sic] Big Sur in 1964. Both of them became best-sellers, and by the late sixties, Brautigan's following had grown from a tiny cult to a huge section of the swelling counterculture, rivaling that of Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti himself" (Barry Silesky 122).

Clear Creek, no. 3, June 1971, p. 30.

First publication of the Brautigan poem "Are You the Lamb of Your Own Forgiving?"

The CoEvolution Quarterly, no. 8, Winter 1975, p. 49.
Published by Point in Sausalito, California.
First publication of six Brautigan poems: "We Are In A Kitchen," "January 4 3," "A Penny Smooth As A Star," "Fuck Me Like Fried Potatoes," "Seconds," "Autobiography (When the Moon Shines Like a Dead Garage)." All collected in "Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork." Also featured work by Robert Creeley, Paul Krassner, Gurney Norman, and Anne Waldman.

The CoEvolution Quarterly [Sausalito, California], no. 9, Spring Mar. 20, 1976, p. 23.

First publication of Brautigan's essay "Owls" along with others commenting on Gerard O'Neill's idea of Space Colonies. Brautigan spoke against space colonization and for ecology.

This issue of The CoEvolution Quarterly also included commentary by Wendell Berry, Ken Kesey, Buckminister Fuller, Astronaut Russell Schweickart, John Todd, Joni Mitchell, and California Governor Jerry Brown.

The CoEvolution Quarterly, no. 21, Spring (March 21) 1979, p. 77.
Published by Point, Sausalito, California.
First publication of Brautigan's story "Farewell to the First Grade and Hello to the National Enquirer" appeared in a section titled "Used Magazines" where "63 strange people tell what they read." Included in the list of "strange people" were Wendell Berry, William S. Burroughs, Robert Crumb, and Allen Ginsberg. Of note: William S. Burroughs read Soldier of Fortune.

"Three by Richard Brautigan." Corona, no. 2, 1981, pp. 12-14.
First publication of three Brautigan stories: "The Last of What's Left", "Closets", and "The Grasshopper's Mirror".

Background
Michael Sexson, editor of Corona notes,
I think we called them stories because Richard said so. They seem tiny short stories, but it would not be wrong to call them poems either. Notice that we evaded the issue in the text by calling it "Three by Richard Brautigan."
Michael Sexson. Email to John F. Barber, 18 February 2002.

Coyote's Journal, no. 5/6, 1966, p. 81.
116 pages

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Study in California Flowers".

Imprint varies. Number 1-4 published in Eugene, Oregon; number 5-8 in San Francisco, California by City Lights; Number 9- in Berkeley, CA by Book People; Number 11 in Brunswick, Maine by Coyote Books; Number 12 in Brattleboro, Vermont by Coyote Books.

Danse Macabre, vol. 1, no. 1, 1957, pp. 18-19.

Background
First publication of two Brautigan poems: "They Keep Coming Down the Dark Streets" and "15 Stories in One Poem."

Danse Macabre, Edited and published by R. T. Baylor, began publication in 1957, and was published quarterly at 653 12th Street, Manhattan Beach, California. Printed by Ottumwa Duplicating Service, Ottumwa, Iowa.

This issue also featured work by Orma McCormick, Richard Dwyer, Lilith Lorraine, Judson Crews, James Boyer May, and Carl Larsen, who edited the journal Existaria, a Journal of Existant Hysteria in which Brautigan published two poems: "The Daring Little Guy on the Burma Shave Sign" and "The World Will Never End" in 1957. Larsen was also one of the poets included, along with Brautigan, in the book Four New Poets. Learn more. Lilith Lorraine edited the journal Flame in which Brautigan published the poem "Someplace in the World a Man is Screaming in Pain" in 1955.

The Digger Papers. August 1968, p. 11.
A 24-page phamphlet compilation of previous Digger publications. Edited by Paul Krassner.
Reprints Brautigan's poem "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" and work by others. Brautigan admired the Diggers, a San Francisco counter-culture group, for their free services to the needy and "gave" them this poem, which they reproduced and distributed throughout the city. Information about this poem at the Digger Archives website. LEARN more

Abbott, Keith. Downstream from Trout Fishing in America. Capra Press, 1989, p. 137.

First publication of Brautigan's poems "Somehow We Live and Die Again," "Reflection," and "Death Growth."

"The Library." The Dutton Review, no. 1, 1970, pp. 167-182.
Published in New York, New York. Edited by Hal Scharlatt, Robert Brown, and Jerome Charyn.

Featured four chapters from Brautigan's upcoming book The Abortion: "The Library," "The Automobile Accident," "The 23," and "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come out Tonight?"
These chapters comprised Book 1, titled "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come out Tonight?", of the novel.

This issue also featured works by William Gaddis, Raymond Mungo, C. P. Cavafy, Norma Meacock, Barton Midwood, Rudolph Wurlitzer, Anthony Kerrigan, John Hawkes, Jack Newfield, Stanley Elkin, LeRoi Jones, and Jorge Luis Borges.

Earth, vol. 2, no. 1, Jan. 1971.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Homage to Rudi Gernreich/1965".
A story about the Pet Cemetary in San Francisco's The Presidio.
Featured a photograph taken in November 1965 by Erik Weber of Brautigan looking over the pet tombstones there.

The magazine (8" x 11.5" with cover artwork by Bob Zoell) featured four pages of artwork by Robert Crumb titled "Mr. Natural's 719th Meditation" and full color photographs of musician Shuggie Otis by San Francisco photographer Lisa Law.

A quote by California designer Rudi Gernreich acts as a prologue to the story. "The look in clothes expresses an anti-attitude, the result of being bored . . . And so, if you're bored, you go for the outrageous gesture. Everything else seems to have lost any meaning."

Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: A Collection of Over 125 Poems. Edited by Frances Monson McCullough. Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, 1971, pp. 27, 130, 142.

Reprints three Brautigan poems: "To England," "The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster," and "The Day They Busted the Grateful Dead."

The biographical note for Brautigan reads, "Richard Brautigan published several small books of poetry in limited editions and then collected them in one volume, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, published first by Four Seasons Foundation and them by Delacorte. He has also published three novels and a book of new poems, Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt. Brautigan is 36 and has lived in San Francisco for many years."

Epos, vol. 8, no. 2, Winter 1956, p. 23.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "The Second Kingdom," inspired by Linda Webster.

Background
Epos was a post-Beat avant-garde poetry magazine published by New Athenaeum Press, Lake Como, Florida. Edited by Evelyn Thorne and Will Tullos. Provided this biographical information concerning Brautigan.

"Richard Brautigan, 21, 'I have been writing poetry since I was 17. Olivant will publish my first book of poems, Tiger in the Telephone Booth. Making paper flowers out of love and death is a disease, but how beautiful it is.'"

Brautigan's reference to Tiger in the Telephone Booth as his first book of poetry comes from his correspondence with D. Vincent Smith, editor of the small literary magazine Olivant. Smith maintained publication offices in Fitzgerald, Georgia, and editorial offices in Japan where he was posted on active military duty. The first issue was published in 1956.

Smith wrote Brautigan in late 1955-early 1956 saying he intended to republish the poem Someplace in the World a Man is Screaming in Pain, published in the Fall 1955 issue of Flame, in the first issue of Olivant. He asked to see a selection of further writing for possible publication in a supplement to Olivant. Brautigan apparently sent Smith a selection of poems.

In July 1956, Smith wrote Brautigan again, saying he intended to publish all of Brautigan's submitted poems in a collection to be titled Tiger in the Telephone Booth. The book was never published. The Return of the Rivers, published in May 1957, is considered Brautigan's first poetry book publication. The poems intended for Tiger in the Telephone Booth were "lost."

Epos, vol. 8, no. 4, Summer 1957, p. 6.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "A Young Poet."

Background
Epos was a post-Beat avant-garde poetry magazine published by New Athenaeum Press, Lake Como, Florida. Edited by Will Tullos and Evelyn Thorne.

Epos, vol. 9, no. 3, Spring 1958, pp. 20-21.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Kingdon Come."

Epos was a post-Beat avant-garde poetry magazine published by New Athenaeum Press, Lake Como, Florida. Edited by Will Tullos and Evelyn Thorne.

Epos Anthology 1958.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "The Second Kingdom," inspired by Linda Webster

Also included works by Clark Ashton Smith ("Ecclesiastes"), A. A. Ammons, and others.

Esquire, no. 74, October 1970, pp. 152-153.

First publication of "The Lost Chapters of Trout Fishing in America": 'Rembrandt Creek' and 'Carthage Sink' along with a full-page color illustration of Brautigan by Richard Weigand.

Esquire, Vol. LXXVIII, No. 3, September 1972, p. 50.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Autobiography (Polish It Like a Piece of Silver)."

The reference to "Byrds" in this poem is a small town in central Texas near Brownwood.
The reference to "Judy" is Judy Gordon. She and her husband, Roxy, were friends of Brautigan and he visited them in Austin, Texas, in August 1970. Rommel Drives On Deep Into Egypt, a collection of poetry, was dedicated to Roxy and Judy Gordon.

Esquire, Vol LXXXIII, no. 3, March 1975, pp. 70, 134.

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Gun for Big Fish".

Eugene High School News, 19 Dec. 1952, p. 5.
Published under the larger title "Poet's Nook" and the subheading "Creative Writers Express Christmas Spirit." Credit: "Richard Brautigan." Included several poems by faculty and students, as well as Brautigan.

First publication of Brautigan's poem, "The Light."

Background
The Eugene High School News was the newspaper of Brautigan's high school in Eugene, Oregon. LEARN more. This poem was possibly Brautigan's first publication and his first as "Richard Brautigan." Until his final year of high school Brautigan was known as "Porterfield," the surname of his mother's second husband, Robert Geoffrey "Tex" Porterfield. Just before his graduation, he changed his surname from "Porterfield" to "Brautigan" and used that name for the rest of his life. Allegedly, Brautigan met his biological father, Bernard Brautigan, only twice. Bernard contended, upon learning of Brautigan's death, that he never knew he had a son. LEARN more.

"Trout Fishing in America." Evergreen Review, no. 31, Oct.-Nov. 1963, pp.12-27.

Featured four chapters from Brautigan's upcoming novel: "The Hunchback Trout," "Room 208, Hotel Trout Fishing in America," "The Surgeon," and "The Cleveland Wrecking Yard." Also featured work by Anselm Hollo, Pauline Reage, Andrei Voznesensky, Lenore Kandel, Harold Norse, Robert Coover, W. S. Merwin, Jack Kerouac, and Douglas Woolf.

Evergreen Review, published in New York, NY, 1957-1973, was edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriman Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

"Trout Fishing in America" 2." Evergreen Review, no. 33, Aug.-Sept. 1964, pp. 42-47.

Featured five chapters from Brautigan's upcoming novel: "Witness for Trout Fishing in America Peace," "A Note on the Camping Craze That is Currently Sweeping America," "The Pudding Master of Stanley Basin," "In the California Bush," and "Trout Death by Port Wine." Also featured work by John Fowles, Robert Gover, Blaise Cendrars (translated by Anselm Hollo), Jakov Lind, Michael O'Donoghue, Julian Beck, Judith Malina, Jack Kerouac, Lysander Kemp, Alden Van Buskirk, and Harold Pinter.

Evergreen Review, published in New York, NY, 1957-1973, was edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriman Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

Evergreen Review, no, 42, Aug. 1966, pp. 30-32, 86.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Menu" (which was later collected under the name "The Menu/1965") where he discussed the menu served to San Quentin Death Row prisoners saying, "It's so stark, so real . . . it's like a poem. This menu alone condemns our society. To feed somebody this kind of food who is already effectively dead represents all the incongruity of the whole damn thing. It's senseless."

Editor Robert Sherrill contacted Brautigan in March 1965 and saying he wanted a story about death row. Sherrill wanted a story based on facts, but told with fictional techniques and Brautigan's point of view, a funny story pointing to the absurdity rather than the horror of the lives of those livingon death row. Esquire offered US$600.00, plus expenses, plus a US$200.00 guarantee in case they refused the story. Brautigan contacted Associate Warden in charge of press relations James Park, 1 April asking if he might visit San Quentin death row. Brautigan rode a bus from San Francisco to San Quentin in Marin County. Brautigan filled fourteen pages in his notebook with notes about the condemed men and their last words. He was interested in what the men of death row ate regularly. Warden Park gave him a copy of the menu listing everything the men on death row could eat the week of 12-18 April 1965. Back in San Francisco, Brautigan shared his notes and observations with Zekial Marko (the "aspiring Hollywood scriptwriter" noted in the story), Philip Whalen, Lew Welch, and others. He incorporated several of their remarks into his final story which he sent to Sherrill before the end of the month. Brautigan included the actual menu, as a piece of found art, in the middle of his story. Sherrill edited Brautigan's story, but then declined to publish it in Esquire. Brautigan placed Sherrill's edited version in Evergreen Review the following year.

Evergreen Review, published in New York, New York, 1957-1973, was edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriam Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

Evergreen Review, vol. 61, December 1968, pp 24-26.

First publication of the Brautigan story "What Are You Going to Do with 390 Photographs of Christmas Trees."

Included a montage of nine photographs of discarded Christmas trees by Erik Weber, who is the photographer friend Brautigan refers to in the story. Brautigan called Weber the first week in January 1964, and enlisted his help in photographing discarded Christmas trees. The project, thought Brautigan, would show the shallowness of Christmas, and how easily it was discarded once passed. Brautigan originally intended a small, illustrated book, but never followed through. Instead, he wrote this story, recounting his project with Weber and an anonymous friend. In the original story, everyone is referred to by their proper name, except the anonymous friend. When he included this story in The Tokyo-Montana Express, Brautigan, who had ended his friendship with Weber, changed his name from "Erik" to "Bob."

Evergreen Review, published in New York, New York, 1957-1973, was edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriam Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

Evergreen Review, no. 76, March 1970, p. 51.
Published in New York, New York, 1957-1973. Edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriman Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

First publication of the Brautigan story "The Betrayed Kingdom."

Evergreen Review, no. 84, November 1970, p. 41.
Published in New York, New York, 1957-1973. Edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriam Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

First publication of the Brautigan story "Complicated Banking Problems."

Existaria, a Journal of Existant Hysteria, vol. 7, Sep.-Oct. 1957, p. 14.

Background
First publication of two poems by Brautigan: "The Daring Little Guy on the Burma Shave Sign" and "The World Will Never End." The second stanza of "The World Will Never End" was reprinted in 1959 as "The Sink." "The Sink."

Existaria, a Journal of Existant Hysteria was edited by Carl Larsen. Published at 328 Palm Drive, Hermosa Beach, California. Printed by Ottumwa Duplicating Service, Ottumwa, Iowa. Ceased publication with Volume #7, September/October 1957. Larsen was one of the poets included, along with Brautigan, in the book Four New Poets. Learn more.

Also included work by O. W. Crane, Jed Garrick, Charles Bukowski, Rozana Webb, Joseph Martinek, Cerise Farallon, Fred Cogswell, E. W. Northnagel, Claudia Archuletta, Clarence Major, Apollinaire, John Charles Chadwick, Rockwell B. Schaefer, and Judson Crews.

Smith, Claude, H. "Gab & Gossip." Fallon Standard, 25 July 1956, p. 6.

Background
First publication of two Brautigan poems, "Storm over Fallon" and "The Breeze." Published in a column titled "Gab & Gossip" written by Claude H. Smith, President of The Fallon Standard, published weekly (every Wednesday) in Fallon, Nevada. As an introduction, Smith wrote.
"When it comes to poetry or other types of literature, we leave to others the appraisal of what's good. Of poetry we are quite shy.

"This page, however, carries two short pieces of blank verse by a newcomer to Fallon, Richard Brautigan. They are local. We like them both. Do you?"

Barney Mergen writes of Brautigan's visit to Reno and Fallon, Nevada, is his memoir "A Strange Boy." LEARN more.

A First Reader of Contemporary American Poetry. Edited by Patrick Gleason. Merrill, 1969, pp. 23-26

Reprints eight poems by Brautigan: "In a Cafe," "The Wheel," "The Sidney Greenstreet Blues," "The Fever Monument," "Horse Race," "Our Beautiful West Coast Thing," "The Pomegranate Circus," and "General Custer Versus the Titanic."

Flame, vol. 2, no. 3, Autumn 1955, inside back cover.
Sixteen pages, green wrappers, stapled binding. Edited by Lilith Lorraine. Printed in London, England.

First publication of the Brautigan poem "Someplace in the World a Man is Screaming in Pain."

Background
Flame was published quarterly in Alpine, Texas, 1954-1963. Poems by Lorraine and Brautigan appeared together in the first issue of Danse Macabre in 1957. Brautigan's poem was 15 Stories in One Poem.

Foot, no.1, September 1959.
Published in San Francisco, California. Edited by Richard Duerdan. Cover art of a pair of human feet by Robert Duncan.

First publication of five poems by Brautigan: "The Rape of Ophelia," "Postcard from Chinatown," "The Nature Poem," "Horse Race," "The Last Music is Not Heard." Also featured work by [Burgess] Jess Collins, Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Philip Whalen, Gary Snyder, and others.

Hedley, Leslie Woolf, editor. Four New Poets. Inferno Press, 1957, pp. 3-9.
Thirty-four pages. Printed and stapled wrappers. Published Fall 1957.

First publication of four Brautigan poems: "The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth's Beer Bottles," "The Mortuary Bush," "Twelve Roman Soldiers and an Oatmeal Cookies," "Gifts." This was Brautigan's first book appearance prior to his own solely authored book, The Return of the Rivers.

Four New Poets featured poetry by four poets the editor described as "representing an articulate segment of a sometime-called 'silent generation'." Of Brautigan Hedley said, "Richard Brautigan is a young poet who was born January 30, 1935 in Tacoma, Washington. He now lives in San Francisco where he is working on a book of poems, The Horse That Had A Flat Tire."

The other three poets were: Martin Hoberman, Carl Larsen, and James M. Singer. At the time of publication, none of the poets were over the age of 25. Larsen edited Existaria, a Journal of Existant Hysteria, in which, in 1957, Brautigan published two poems: "The Daring Little Guy on the Burma Shave Sign" and "The World Will Never End."

Inferno Press issued 6.5" x 3.5" announcements for the book, printed in blue and gold ink on one side of heavy white paper and illustrated with a gold handprint. The promotional blurb read, "This collection from the work of four young poets, all under 25, presents an interesting contrast that is most refreshing after so much orthodoxy in current American poetry."

Leslie Woolf Hedley also edited a small poetry journal called Inferno. A total of eleven issues were published between 1950 and 1956. "Although Inferno did print a few significant Bay Area poets, the editorial bent seemed to be primarily international anonymity" (Eloyde Tovey 31).

Free City News, no. 1, October 1967.
San Francisco

Many leaves (but not Brautigan's) were printed on both sides with illustrated poems and prose pieces and news commentary. All were anonymous.
Artwork by Stanley Muse.
An anthology of ten poems, each published as broadsides by the Diggers. Also issued separately.
8.5" x 14" white construction-like paper of various colors; Ten leaves (broadsides) plus illustrated front and back wrappers.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Boo, Forever," here untitled and so often cited by its first line: "Spinning Like a Ghost." This broadside was also issued seprately.

Brautigan's poem, without title, was centered on the page, framed by an Egyptian-style erotic illustration and a numbered listing of Kama Sutra sexual positions.

Brautigan originally titled this poem part of "Three Poems to Celebrate the History of Marcia" in reference to Marcia Pacaud.

The Free You, vol. 3, no. 6, May 1969, p. 45.
Published in Menlo Park, California, by Midpeninsula Free University. Edited by Fred Nelson, Jon Buckley, Ed McClanahan, and others.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "All Girls Should Have a Poem."

Midpeninsula Free University of Palo Alto, California, (MFU), was an experiment in alternative education that began in 1965 as a Marxist-oriented challenge to the nearby Stanford University. Courses included yoga, mediation, and other experiential offerings. For a $US10.00 membership fee, one could sign up for any course offered by MFU, or teach any course he or she wished. The MFU faculty included Black Panthers, hippies, Stanford professors, and auto mechanics. Notable attendees were Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who went on to found Apple Computer. Peak membership was claimed to be more than a thousand. In addition to the school, MFU operated a restaurant, a head shop, and a free store.

MFU course offerings were detailed in a semi-annnual catalog called The Free You between 1968 and 1971. Starting as an 8.5" x 11" mimeographed house organ, the catalog grew to a full-color, fifty-page magazine distributed widely outside the university. Illustrations were often included. In fact, artist M. C. Escher wrote, 20 April 1969, "The Hippies of San Francisco continue to print my work illegaly. . . . I was sent a forty-eight-page programme or catalogue of the so-called "Midpeninsula Free University," Menlo Park, California. It included three reproductions of my prints alternating with photographs of seductive naked girls."

The editors of The Free You solicited writings from friends. Ed McClanahan knew Brautigan and may have asked him to contribute something to the catalog. Brautigan's poem appeared in a swirling color psychedelic illustration style popular at the time. The artist was attributed simply as Marghee [sic].

"Richard Brautigan: Tokyo and Montana." Friends of the Washington Review of the Arts, vol. 9, no. 5, Feb./Mar. 1984, p. 9.

First publication in English of Brautigan's poem "Night Flowing River" and first publication of Brautigan's story "The Lost Tree", Includes a photograph of Brautigan by Toby Thompson.

Grosseteste Review, vol. 1, no. 3, Winter 1968.

Reprints Brautigan's story "A Study in California Flowers."

Published in Lincoln, England. This 48-page issue also featured work by Joanne Kyger, David Chaloner, John Newlove, Curtis Zahn, Peter Riley, and Man Wright.

Harper's Magazine, vol. 243, no. 1457, October 1971, p. 58.

First publication of the Brautigan poem "Crow Maiden."

Hearse: A Vehicle Used to Convey the Dead, vol. 2, 1958, inside back cover.

Reprints the Brautigan poem "15 Stories in One Poem."

Published at 3118 K. Street, Eureka, California. Seventeen issues, 1957-1972. Edited by E. V. Griffith who described his journal as ". . . an irreverant quarterly, carrying poetry, prose artwork and incidental cadaver to the Great Cemetery of the American Intellect. . ." Brautigan's poem appeared under the heading "Coroner's Report," a series of annoucements by Griffith, and seemed to drive Griffith's introduction of Danse Macabre. Griffith noted "the above poem, published in the pilot issue of DANSE MACABRE, reappears here as an introduction to a spirited new magazine which merits wide readership. . . ."

Hearse: A Vehicle Used to Convey the Dead, vol. 3, 1958, n. pg.

Reprints the following Brautigan poems: "Twelve Roman Soldiers and an Oatmeal Cookies" and "The Mortuary Bush."

Hearse: A Vehicle Used to Convey the Dead, vol. 9, 1961, p. 4.

First publication of the Brautigan poem "The Rain." "The Rain."

Background
Published at 3118 K. Street, Eureka, California. Seventeen issues, 1957-1972. Edited by E. V. Griffith who described Hearse as ". . . an irreverant quarterly, carrying poetry, prose artwork and incidental cadaver to the Great Cemetery of the American Intellect. . ."

Heliotrope, Summer 1969, n. pg.
Published in San Francisco, CA.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Critical Can Opener."

Heliotrope was a learning environment open to anyone and offered a wide range of courses: massage, cinema, celebration of dusk, for example. This publication (6" x 9 1/4" printed on heavy, yellow paper) was the summer catalog.

"High Schools Promote: Irresponsibility, Distortion, Schizophrenia, Racism, Chauvinism, Hate, Elitism, Linear Thought, Subordination, Militarism, Nationalism, Oligarchies, Loneliness, and other character disorders." Chicago: Chicago Area Draft Resisters, 197[?]: back panel.
Single sheet, folded. A promotional phamplet printed and distributed by the Chicago Area Draft Resistors (CADRE), 519 W. North Ave., Chicago, Illinois, 60610, (312) 664-6895. Readers were encouraged to "call or write" CADRE for "more information about high schools and how to deal with them."

Reprints Brautigan's poem "The Memoirs of Jesse James" on the back panel.

Hollow Orange, no. 4 1967, n. pg.
Published at 642 Shrader Street, San Francisco, California by Cranium Press
Edited by Clifford Burke
String tied wrappers

First publication of three poems by Brautigan: "Comets," "It's Raining in Love," and "Nine Things."

Also featured works by Keith Abbott, Bill Bathurst, Clifford Burke, Nick Chavin, Gino Clays, Zoltan Farkas, Max Finstein, Eugene Lesser, Martin MacClain, Jeff Sheppard (A poet friend of Brautigan to whom the poem "Hey! This Is What It's All About" was dedicated.), Ronald Silliman, David Tammer, David Sandberg, Patrick Nolan, and Steve Carey.

International Times, no. 119, 16-30 December 1971, p. 16.
London underground magazine started by Barry Miles.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Halloween in Denver." Featured an illustration by "Yellow Pig." Cover shows Fat Freddy as Father Christmas. Contents include a pullout paranoia board game, a full-page photograph of Jim Morrison, and a review of a Yoko Ono film.

J, no. 1, Sep. 1959, p. n. pg.
Printed on 8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets.
J magazine was privately published in San Francisco, California, 1959-1961, eight issues. Edited by Jack Spicer and George Stanley. Also featured work by Robert Duncan, James Alexander, Ebbe Borregaard, Robin Blaser, Jack Spicer, Joe Dunn, Sam the Tenor Man, and Kay Johnson.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "The Fever Monument."

J, no. 4, Nov. 1959.
Printed on 8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets; 16 pages. Hand-colored blue and green illustration on front cover.
J magazine was privately published in San Francisco, California, 1959-1961, eight issues. Edited by Jack Spicer and George Stanley.

First publication of three poems by Brautigan: "The Pumpkin Tide ," "The Sidney Greenstreet Blues," and "Surprise."

Also featured work by Robert Duncan, Joanne Kyger, Josef Elias, Donald Merriam Allen, John Ryan, Jack Spicer, George Stanley, and Wallace Allen.

J, no. 5, December 1959.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets. Front cover illustrated with a hand-colored gold border.
J magazine was privately published in San Francisco, California, 1959-1961, eight issues. Edited by Jack Spicer and George Stanley.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "1942" as well as work by L. Frank Baum, Larry Eigner, [Burgess] Jess Collins, Ron Loewinsohn, George Stanley, Robert Duncan, Richard Duerden, and Jack Spicer. LEARN more.

Jeopardy, no. 6, March 1970, p. 90.
Published in Bellinghman, Washington, by the Associated Student Body of Western Washington State College.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Partners," as well as work by Keith Abbott, Greg Kuzma, Anselm Hollo, Noritoshi Tachibana (translated by Yozo Shibuya and Ron Bayes), Stephen Dunn, Richard Eberhart, James Den Boer, Charles Bukowski, Joyce Odam, William Stafford, Louis Ginsberg, Ann Mennebroker, John Stevens Wade, Stanley Cooperman, Stanley Plumley, Collete Inez, Terry Stokes, and Grace Butler.

Journal for the Protection of All Beings, no. 3, 1969, n. pg.
Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, California. 6" x 10.25."

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Shellfish."

Background
Journal for the Protection of All Beings is generally considered one of the first radical ecology magazines. Published four issues, 1961-1978. Each issue's title varied and often depended on the focus of the content.

This issue was subtitled "Green Flag: People's Park Poetry" and included protest prose and poetry by University of California-Berkeley students focusing on the disruption of student gardening in a vacant lot called "People's Park." It was put together and sold in support of the Bail Defense Fund for the hundreds arrested following the protest over the closure of the park. Cover illustration by Eugene Hawkins Legend. Other illustrations by John Corrie. Brautigan's poem "Shellfish" appeared in the "To Every Animal" section but did not appear in the table of contents.

The journal itself was not a poetry magazine, "but it provided a forum for local poets to express their concern about their society" (Eloyde Tovey 43). The journal was started by Michael McClure and David Meltzer. It began production in San Francisco in 1961 under the City Lights imprint. The first issue of this magazine was edited by McClure, David Meltzer, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. It was conceived as a political magazine with a populist dialogue that hopefully would appeal to a broad audience.

Just What The Country Needs, Another Poetry Anthology. Edited by James McMichael and Dennis Saleh. Wadsworth, 1971, pp. xii, 22-26, 185.
6.5" x 9.5", 190 pages
A poetry anthology collecting 124 poems by 30 poets, including Brautigan. Includes biographical notes for each contributor and an introduction by X. J. Kennedy, who says, "Anyone who cares for poetry ought to encounter much to delight and startle him here. Among such gratifications for me was . . . Richard Brautigan, abruptly popular, whose best work (see "The Winos on Potrero Hill") moves with a beautiful transparency" (xii).

Reprints five poems by Brautigan: "The Winos on Potrero Hill," "The Quail," "The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster," "Discovery," and "Adrenalin Mother," all from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster.

The biographical note for Brautigan reads, "Richard Brautigan published several small books of poetry in limited editions and then collected them in one volume, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, published first by Four Seasons Foundation and them by Delacorte. He has also published three novels and a book of new poems, Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt. Brautigan is 36 and has lived in San Francisco for many years."

Kaleidescope-Madison, vol. 2, no. 19, 17 Sep. 1970, p. 7.
Published biweekly; Box 5457, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53701.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "Restaurant" under the name "Fragile, Fading 37/A Poem."

Kaleidoscope-Milwaukee, vol. 3, no. 9, 12 October 1970, pp. 1, 10.
Published biweekly Box 5457, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53701.

First publication of the Brautigan story "Talk Show."

Kulchur, no. 13, Spring 1964, pp. 51-55.
Published in New York, New York spring 1960 (issue #1) through winter 1965 (issue #20) and offered serious commentary or criticism about literature, film, politics, and music. This issue (no. 13) was edited by Lita Hornick, Frank O'Hara (art), and Leroi Jones (music).

First publication of the Brautigan story "The Post Offices of Eastern Oregon."

Contributing editors: Charles Olson, Gilbert Sorrentino, A. B. Spellman, and Bill Berks. Authors include Allen Ginsberg ("The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express July 18, 1963"), Gilbert Sorrentino ("The Art of Hubert Selby"), Pauline Kael ("Film Review"), Warren Tallman ("Robert Creeley's Portrait of the Artist"), Allan Kaplan, and Joe LeSuer.
The front cover photograph was taken from Andy Warhol's movie The Kiss (1963, 54 minutes).

Lita Hornick, editor, recounts the contents saying that in Kulchur 13, "Richard Brautigan, then a relatively unknown writer, contributed a characteristic piece of fiction called "The Post Offices of Eastern Oregon" (Hornick. "Kulchur: Memoir." TriQuarterly, no. 43, Fall, 1978, pp. 280-297).

A Legend of Horses Poems and Stories
No stated publisher, but possibly Pacific Red Car Press
No printing, place, or date information
5" x 9"; Printed wrappers; Stapled binding

Reprints ten Brautigan poems
"A Legend of Horses" and
"A Moth in Tucson, Arizona,"
"Hinged to Forgetfulness Like a Door,"
"Heroine of the Time Machine,"
"The Buses" and
"Period Piece."
"Psalm."
"Towards the Pleasures of a Reconstituted Crow,"
"The Memoirs of Jesse James,"
"Love's Not The Way to Treat a Friend,"
and the Brautigan story "What Are You Going to Do with 390 Photographs of Christmas Trees."

"Three Poems." London Magazine, Nov. 1970, p. 65.

Reprints three poems by Brautigan: "The Wheel," "Horse Race," and "Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4." Also included work by Robert Lowell, Ronald Hayman, Minos Argyakis, Christine Broke-Rose, G. S. Sharat Chandra, William Sanson, Nirad Chaudhuri, Geoffrey Grigson, William Feaver, John Elsom, and Tony Harrison.

"Three Stories by Richard Brautigan." Mademoiselle, vol. 71, no. 3, July 1970, pp. 104-105.

First publication of three Brautigan stories: "1692 Cotton Mather Newsreel," "Sand Castles," and "Pacific Radio Fire."

Mademoiselle, vol. 80., no. 1, Nov. 1974, pp. 192-193.

First publilcation of Brautigan's story "An Eye for Good Produce" and Brautigan's poem "Good Luck, Captain Martin."

Mainstream, vol. 2, no. 2, Summer-Autumn 1957, p. 14.
5" x 9". 63 pages. Bound in titled, over-laid wraps.
Subtitled "A Quarterly Journal of Poetry, The Arts and Contemporary Comment." This issue labeled the "San Francisco Issue."

First publication of the Brautigan poem "The Final Ride."

Background
Mainstream was edited by Robin Raey Cuscaden and Ronald Offen. Published published at 17 South Cedar Street, Palatine, Illinois, by Jack R. Lander. Ceased publication with Volume 2, Number 3, Winter 1958.

Mark In Time: Portraits & Poetry / San Francisco. Edited by Nick Harvey. Glide Publications, 1971, pp. 170-171, 173-174.
188 pages; Hardcover, with dustjacket; 9.5" x 9.5"
An overview of the San Francisco poetry scene in the early 1970s.

First publication of two poems by Brautigan: "On Pure Sudden Days Like Innocence" and "Curiously Young Like a Freshly-Dug Grave."

Also featured poets Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Wieners, George Oppen, Joanne Kyger, Pete Winslow, Kenneth Rexroth, Lew Welch, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ishmael Reed, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, William Everson, Gary Snyder, Brautigan, and others. Each poet given a double-page spread with a photograph by Christa Fleishmann and biographical information.

Autobiographical note reads, "Richard Brautigan (191) was born January 30, 1935, in the Pacific Northwest. He has lived in San Francisco for many years. He is the author of Trout Fishing in America (novel); A Confederate General from Big Sur (novel); In Watermelon Sugar (novel); The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster (poetry); Please Plant This Book (poetry); All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (poetry); Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt (poetry); and The Abortion: An Historical Romance of 1966 (novel) and Revenge of the Lawn (short stories), both due in 1971."

Solotaroff, Theodore, editor. New American Review, Number 12, Simon and Schuster, 1971, pp. 123-126.

The inspiration for this story came in a telephone call to Virginia Alder, Brautigan's first wife, in the fall of 1960 regarding the death of her father, Grover Cleveland Alder, in Los Angeles, California. Virginia was not in the apartment and Brautigan took the call. When she returned, Brautigan told her of her father's death that afternoon. Nearly ten years later, in the last weeks of 1969, Brautigan wrote of that afternoon in 1960, and chronicled the life of his father in law in thirty-three short, numbered passages.

"2 New Stories by Richard Brautigan." The New Ingenue, May 1973, pp. 92-93.
Published by Ingenue Communciations, New York, New York.

First publication of two stories by Brautigan: "A Feeling of Helplessness" and "The Last of my Armstrong Creek Mosquito Bites." The table of contents reads: "A FEELING OF HELPLESSNESS/THE LAST OF MY ARMSTRONG MOSQUITO BITES
Richard Brautigan gives us two new short stories."

Both stories printed on page 92. a photograph by Erik Weber of Brautigan fishing Armstrong Creek, Montana, October 1972, was used as a background across the two pages.

New Orleans Review, vol. 7, no. 1, 1980, p. 24.
Published by Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

First publication of Brautigan's story "In Pursuit of the Impossible Dream."

Shannon, L. R. "The Promise, the Reality and the Hope." New York Times, 8 December 1987, p. 27.
Discusses the possibilities of the personal computer from the perspective of the late 1970s saying, "it was a poetic vision, particularly as expressed by Richard Brautigan. . . ."

Reprints Brautigan's poem "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace."

"The Cleveland Wrecking Yard." The New Writing in the USA. Edited by Donald Merriam Allen and Robert Creeley. Penguin, 1967, pp. 33-38.

Features chapters from Brautigan's upcoming book Trout Fishing in America

Nice, vol. 1, no. 1, 1967, n. pg.
Published in Brightlingsea, Essex, England, 1966-1967. Edited by Thomas Clark.

Nice is the tenth in a series of issues, each described as "a one shot magazine," each edited by Clark and published as "Vol. 1 No. 1." Each issue had a different cover title: "Once," "Twice," "Thrice," "Thrice and 1/2?," "Frice," "Vice," "Spice," "Slice," "Ice," and "Nice." All were collected in The Once Series and reprinted by Krause Reprint Company (New York, 1970).

Clark apparently solicited this story for his magazine. In a letter to Clark, dated September 7, 1965, Brautigan thanks him for his postcard (the request for a submission?) and says, "I have enclosed a short story called "The Armored Car" that I hope will interest you." Brautigan asks for "two copies of the issue that it [the story] is printed in" and that the copyright notice is printed with the story, "if you decide you want to use the story." Brautigan concludes his letter, "Anyway, your magazine sounds like fun." LEARN more.

The dedication for this story reads: "For Janice."
This was Janice Meissner with whom Brautigan lived from November 1964-May 1966. The couple lived together at three different addresses: 533 Divisadero Street (apartment 4), 544 Divisadero Street, and 2830 California Street. Photographer Erik Weber photographed them together. Brian Nation lived nearby and provides an account of his relationship with Brautigan and Meissner.

The Northwest's Own Magazine, 11 Oct. 1953, p. 10.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Moonlight on a Cemetery."

Background
Part of a full-page feature of Oregon poets with the heading "State Recognizes Oregon Poets: Governor and mayor proclaim observance; work of local writers presented." The brief text, by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian read.

BY PROCLAMATIONS [sic] of Governor Paul Patterson and Portland's Mayor Fred Peterson, Oregon Poetry Day will be observed October 15. This Sunday, as a part of an ambitious program of prescheduled events, Oregonian Verse presents local poets in a featured full-page spread.

The editor regrets a number of fine poems submitted must be held over for a near-future column.

The idea of Poetry Day originated with Lucia Trent, a Texas poet, as a memorial to her poet husband Ralph Cheney. By a 1952 count, 38 states had joined in the movement to honor their poets. This was Oregon's fourth observance.

The Northwest's Own Magazine, 29 Nov. 1953, p. 11.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Part of "Oregonian Verse: First Publication Poetry" edited by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of the Brautigan poem, "Winter Sunset."

The Northwest's Own Magazine, 7 Feb. 1954, p. 21.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Part of "Oregonian Verse: First Publication Poetry" edited by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of the Brautigan poem "The Ageless One."

Northwest Roto Magazine, 29 May 1955, p. 9.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Part of "Oregonian Verse: First Publication Poetry" edited by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of the Brautigan poem "So Many Twilights."

Northwest Roto Magazine, 14 Aug. 1955, p. 23.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Part of "Oregonian Verse: First Publication Poetry" edited by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "R. Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of Brautigan's poem "First Star on the Twilight River."

Northwest Roto Magazine, 2 Oct. 1955, p. 14.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Part of "Oregonian Verse: First Publication Poetry" edited by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of Brautigan poem "Butterfly's Breath."

Now Now, no. 2, 1965, n. pg.
Counterculture magazine published in San Francisco, California, by Ari Publications from 1963 (issue #1) to 1965 (issue #3).

First publication of Brautigan's story "Banners of My Own Choosing."

Now Now was edited by Charles Plymell who said, "I sat with Richard Brautigan in some of the new head shops and discussed the scene. He had a sense of what the new generation liked to hear. I took some of his poems to publish in an issue of Now magazine (289). . . . It was the time of nude parties and free love, when women's bodies were painted on. The last time I saw Richard Brautigan was at such a party" (Plymell 292-293). Plymell also printed the first issues of Zap comic with illustrations by Robert Crumb. Other contributors included Philip Whalen, Bruce Conner, Wallace Berman (collage), Allen Ginsberg, Lew Welch, Michael Bowen (collage), George Herms, and Dennis Hopper.

O'er, no. 2, December 1966, pp. 107-109.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets of different colored construction paper; 128 pages; staple binding
Published in San Francisco, California, by Cranium Press.
Edited by David Sandberg.
Called variously Awwr, O'er, and Oar at different points of this issue. First issue appeared April 1966 and was titled or #1.

First publication of three poems by Brautigan: "The House" and "My Nose is Growing Old" and "November 3." Each poem appeared on a separate page. "My Nose is Growing Old" and "November 3" were collected in All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. The poem "The House" was not included in any collection. In addition to Brautigan's poems, this issue also featured a full-page advertisement for The Galilee Hitch-Hiker to be published by Oar, complete with made up blurbs promoting the book. Also included contributions by Jack Spicer, Lew Welch, Anselm Hollo, John Sinclair, Clark Coolidge, and others.

One Lord, One Faith, One Cornbread. Eds. Fred Nelson and Ed McClanahan. Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1973.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "All Girls Should Have a Poem."

A collected volume of writings from The Free You. Includes work by Robert Stone, Ken Kesey, L. J. Davis, Thom Gunn, Wendell Berry, Judith Rascoe, Speer Morgan, Vic Lovell, Brautigan, and others. The notes on contributors reads: "Richard Brautigan is that Richard Brautigan."

Outside , Sep. 1977, p. 7.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Dogs on the Roof."

The Overland Journey of Joseph Francl: The First Bohemian to Cross the Plains to the California Gold Fields. William P. Wreden, [16 Dec.] 1968.
Limited edition of 540 copies of which 500 were offered for sale.
55 pages; 7.25" x 10" Bound in decorative paper boards with a paper spine label; plain white wrapper
Covers and interior pages illustrated with stylized line drawings by Berkeley, California, film-maker and artist, Patricia Oberhaus.
Typographic design by Jack Werner Stauffacher of Greenwood Press, San Francisco
Binding by Schuberth Bookbindery
Illustrated prospectus laid in

First publication of Brautigan's essay forming the introduction to this book, "The Overland Journey of Joseph Francl and the Eternal Sleep of His Wife Antonia in Crete, Nebraska."

A reprinting of Francl's diary kept during his travels from Wisconsin to California. First published serially in 1928. Brautigan's essay serves as the introduction, and was written on the invitation of Wreden, a San Francisco rare books and manuscripts dealer. The essay was later included in The Tokyo-Montana Express. READ this essay.

The publication announcement, sent out by William P. Wreden, included an illustration of Joseph Francl by Oberhaus and noted the introduction by Richard Brautigan. "Richard Brautigan is a novelist-poet living in San Francisco. His novels include A Confederate General from Big Sur and Trout Fishing in America. In the person of Joseph, Francl, freely, gently, in a new manner, he inquires after the phenomena of the overland pioneer." A separate invitation to a publication party also mentioned Brautigan.

The Pacific Nation 1 Summer 1967
Volume 1 featured, under the title "Trout Fishing in America (1-5)" the first five chapters from Brautigan's upcoming book Trout Fishing in America: "The Cover of Trout Fishing in America," "Knock on Wood (Part One)," "Knock on Wood (Part Two)," "Red Lip," and "The Kool-Aid Wino" (34-40).

Other contributors included Robin Blaser, Jim Herndon, Charles Olsen, George Stanley, and Michael McClure. The front cover featured a drawing by John Button.

Spicer promoted the idea of a "Pacific Nation" comprised of "healthily unlikeminded" people that would extend from San Francisco up the coast to Canada and perhaps as far north as Alaska. The product of this new nation was to be poetry, as was its language (Ellingham and Killian 300-301). An offshoot of this was Pacific Nation, a journal edited by Robin Blaser and published in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The journal was issued in two volumes, the first in 1967 and the second in 1969.

Brautigan referenced Spicer and his notion of a Pacific Nation in his poem, Our Beautiful West Coast Thing.

Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance by Lewis Ellingham provides a definitive biography of Spicer, as well as interesting information about Brautigan.

Spicer died 17 August 1965 in San Francisco from complications associated with alcoholism.

Additional Resources
The Jacket
Provides a "Jack Spicer Chronology" that relates Spicer's life and activities to ongoing world events.

Jack Spicer feature essay in Jacket #7.

Parallel, vol. 1, no. 3, July-August 1966, pp. 10-12.
Published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Edited by Peter Desbarats. Illustrated by Morris Danylewich.

Inspiration for this story came from Brautigan's reimagining of what folksingers call a "floater verse," a lyric easily transposed into different songs. For example, the lines "I'd rather live in some dark holler / where the sun refused to shine . . ." were used in at least two Appalachian folk songs: "Little Maggie" and "Hard, Ain't It Hard." Brautigan noted these lines in his notebook, and then changed them to "where the wild birds of heaven / can't hear me when I whine." These lines became the basis for his story.

Desbarats notes Brautigan on "The Editor's Page, saying, "The West Coast below Vancouver is also the home of Richard Brautigan, a young American writer, whose short story "The Wild Birds of Heaven" appears in this issue. His first novel is being published by Grove Press in New York."

Feedback from Denis R. Robillard
I received a telephone call late this afternoon from Peter Desbarats in London. He is a retired Journalism professor from University of Western Ontario. He also wrote several books and plied his early journalism trade in Montreal both with TV and print media. In 2006 he was the recipient of a Order of Canada medal.

Desbarats comes from a long line of printers. His ancestor George was Queens Printer and also edited the Illustrated News in Montreal for a couple of decades. His partner in this outfit was Leggo. George Desbarats later went on to buy some land around Sault Ste. Marie known as the Desbarats Territory and had interest in some mines there.

Peter called me in response to a letter I sent him in London in September. I was trying to track down the connection that he may have had to a Montreal magazine which published Richard Brautigan's short story "The Wild Birds of Heaven" in 1966.

Here is what he told me over the telephone.

Peter had been doing some freelance work in Montreal when he was approached by Douglas Cohen, a real estate broker and lawyer from Montreal, who wanted to launch a literary magazine which would have international scope and reach.

Cohen wanted Desbarats to be the editor of this fledgling outfit. The managing editor was a woman from the United States who had experience with magazines. Their advertising was handled by a retired ad man named Peter Mathiews.

In 1966, the first issue of Parallel came out. The issue in which Brautigan's story appeared was the August 1966 issue, Volume 1 Number 3 which ran to 58 pages.

On The Editor's Page Desbarats dedicated a few lines to Brautigan saying he was a young American writer who was soon publishing his first novel under Grove Press.

Desbarats didn't remember the press run by says that about 10,000 copies of Parallel sold in Montreal and other city centers.

Parallel was published in the mezzanine area of a building complex owned by Douglas Cohen, which happened to house a beauty shop. Desbarats told Cohen to leave the cosmetology equipment there and he and other staff members worked around it to produce Parallel.
— Denis R. Robillard. Email to John F. Barber, 28 October 2008.

The Paris Review, no. 45, Winter 1968, p. 140.
The Paris Review, published in New York, City 1953-1974 was founded by novelist Peter Matthiessen and Harold Hume and was one of the great literary magazines of the latter half of the twentieth century.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "Gee, You're So Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain" (double titled as "San Francisco Weather Report") as well as poetry by Jim Carroll (of the rock group Traffic), Tom Clark, Ron Padgett, Anne Waldman, Frank O'Hara, Jim Brodey, and others. Also included was an interview with John Updike, a journal by Edward Hoagland titled "Notes from the Century Before," fiction by Joy Williams, Austin Wright, Tom Veitch, and others.

"A Happy but Footsore Writer Celebrates His Driver's Block": People Weekly, 8 June 1981
Brautigan is credited as the author of this article, but it actually stems from interviews by Cheryl McCall.

The first publication of this long piece by Brautigan on why he hates cars. Inludes three photographs of Brautigan by Roger Ressmeyer, taken Saturday, 21 March 1981 in San Francisco.

"Little Memoirs: Three Tales by Richard Brautigan." Playboy, vol. 17, no. 12, December 1970, pp. 164-165.

First publication of three Brautigan stories: "Corporal," "The Literary Life in California/1964," and "Halloween in Denver."

Poems Here and Now. Edited by David Kherdian. Greenwillow Books, 1976

Reprints two poems by Brautigan: "The Chinese Checker Players" and "The Horse That Had A Flat Tire."

Postcard Poems. Edited by Paul B. Janeczko. Bradbury Press, 1979

Reprints Brautigan's poem "In a Cafe."

Ogar, Richard, editor. The Poet's Eye: A Tribute to Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Books. The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1997, pp. 61-63.

Background
This book associated with the Symposium and 49th Annual Meeting of The Friends of Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, California, 12-13 April 1996. The theme was "Ferlinghetti, City Lights Books, and the Beats in San Francisco: From the Margins to the Mainstream."

First publication of Brautigan's poems "Poem for Michael McClure" and "Rainy Gary Snyder Poetry Reading Night," as well as a poem titled "Remembering City Lights" by Brautigan's daughter Ianthe.

Poet Michael McClure and Brautigan were good friends. LEARN more.

S. A. Griffith, a Los Angeles, California, poet, actor, and one of the founding members of Carma Bums, a group of touring poets, wrote a description of the event.

Poetry, vol. cvx, no. 1, Oct. 1969, p. 30.
Published by October House, Inc., New York, NY

Fisrt publication of Brautigan's poem "Wood." This was his only appearance in this journal, founded by Harriet Monroe with help from Ezra Pound in 1912.

Quest/77, vol. 1, no. 5, Nov./Dec. 1977, p. 108.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "On the Elevator Going Down."

R. C. Lion, no. 2, 1966, pp. 4-5.
8.5" x 11"; 26 pages; Mimeographed sheets; stapled; Cover same stock as interior pages;
Published by the University of California, Berkeley Rhymers Club, Berkeley, California. Subtitled "The Magazine That Submerges Periodically" and called variously Our Sea Lion or Ah, Sue Lyon.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Pretty Office."

Only three issues. Edited by David Bromige, Sherril Jaffe, David Schaff, and Ron Loewinsohn. This issued featured work by Anselm Hollo, Richard Brautigan, David Schaff, Jo Marsten, Ted Berrigan, David Bromige, Ross Angier, Sherril Jaffe, Bob May, Red Baren, David Schaff (again), Johannes Amicus, Jim St. Jim, and Ron Loewinsohn, in that order.

Ramparts, vol. 6, no. 5, December 1967, pp. 43-45.

First publication of Brautigan's story "1/3, 1/3, 1/3" and a photograph by Baron Wolman of Brautigan, one of several he took in 1967 for publicity. Also included was a review by Stephen Schneck of Trout Fishing in America. Schneck participated on the Creative Arts Conference program with Brautigan in August 1969.

Redbook: The Magazine For Young Women, vol. 153, No. 4, August 1979, The Redbook Publishing Co., 1979, New York

Reprints Brautigan's story "The Great Golden Telescope." Also includes Ray Bradbury's story "A Summer Day" (not to be confused with his famous "All Summer in a Day").

end hiding --> Barber, John F. Richard Brautigan: An Annotated Bibliography. McFarland, 1990, p. 4.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Rendezvous."

The Register-Guard, 24 Aug. 1953, p. 8A.
Eugene, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan"

First publication of the Brautigan poem, "A Cigarette Butt."

Rolling Stone, no. 24, 21 December 1968, p. 24.

First publication of three Brautigan stories: "Crazy Old Women Are Riding the Buses of America Today," "Fame in California," "A Need for Gardens."

The title of "Fame in Califorina" was changed to "Fame in California/1964" and when it was collected in Revenge of the Lawn.

Rolling Stone, no. 25, 4 January 1969, p. 30.
First publication of two Brautigan stories: "The Ghost Children of Tacoma" and "Lint."

Rolling Stone, no. 26, 1 February 1969, p. 26.

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Short History of Oregon."

Rolling Stone, no. 27, 15 February 1969, 10.
This issue focused on Groupies, females (generally) who followed and attempted to attract the attentions of rock musicians.

First publication of Brautigan's story "I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone."

Rolling Stone, no. 28, 1 March 1969, p. 30.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Holiday in Germany."

Rolling Stone, no. 29, 15 March 1969, p. 25.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Forgiven."

Rolling Stone, no. 30, 5 April 1969, p. 28.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Elmira."

Rolling Stone, no. 31, 19 April 1969, p. 8.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The View from the Dog Tower."

Rolling Stone, vol. 32, 3 May 1969, p. 29.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Not The Way," later collected in Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt as "Love's Not the Way to Treat a Friend."

Rolling Stone, no. 33, 17 May 1969, p. 12.

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Complete Movie of Germany and Japan." Title changed to "A Complete History of Germany and Japan" when it was collected in Revenge of the Lawn.

Rolling Stone, no. 34, 31 May 1969, p. 37.

Reprints Brautigan's story "A Long Time Ago People Decided to Live in America."

Rolling Stone, no. 36, 28 June 1969, p. 38.

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Short Story about Contemporary Life in California."

Rolling Stone, no. 37, 12 July 1969, p. 37.

Reprints Brautigan's story "A Short History of Religion in California."

Rolling Stone, no. 39, 9 August 1969, p. 37.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Memory of a Girl."

Rolling Stone, no. 41, 6 September 1969, p. 30.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Women When They Put Their Clothes On in the Morning."

Rolling Stone, no. 42, 20 September 1969, p 25.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Pale Marble Movie."

Rolling Stone, no. 48, 13 December 1969, p. 40.
First publication of two Brautigan stories: "Ernest Hemingway's Typist" and "A High Building in Singapore."

Link, Terry. "Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork." Rolling Stone, no. 60, 11 June 1970, p. 26.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Your Love."

Background
Brautigan read this poem at a poetry reading at the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco, 7 May 1970. Link reviewed the reading. LEARN more.

Rolling Stone, no. 61, 25 June 1970, p. 11.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Atlantisburg."

Rolling Stone, no. 63, 23 July 1970, p. 15.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Greyhound Tragedy."

Rolling Stone, no. 67, 15 October 1970, p. 22.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Getting to Know Each Other."

["Impasse and Other Poems."] San Francisco, Aug. 1977, pp. 34-35.

Reprints six poems by Brautigan: "Autobiography (Goodbye, Ultra Violet)," "We Meet. We Try. Nothing Happens, But," "Impasse," "On Pure Sudden Days Like Innocence," "We Were the Eleven O'Clock News," and "Nobody Knows What the Experience Is Worth."

San Francisco Art Festival: A Poetry Folio 1964. East Wind Printers, 1964.
Limited Edition of 300 copies
Broadsides; 12.75" x 20" on heavy cream-colored paper

Reprints Brautigan's story "September California" illustrated by Richard Correll
Signed by both Correll and Brautigan (although Brautigan did not sign all copies).

Published in San Francisco, California, as one of ten broadsides for the San Francisco Arts Festival Commission. The collection was contained in a folio-sized folder. The other nine similiarly-sized broadsides were all illustrated by Correll and signed by him and their respective authors (except for David Meltzer who refused to sign his contribution).

The other nine broadsides are
James R. Broughton, "I Heard in the Shell"
[Burgess] Jess Collins, "When Did Morning Wind Rip Callow Flowers in May"
Max Finstein, "There's Always a Moon in America"
Andrew Hoyem, "Stranger"
Lenore Kandel, "Vision of the Skull of The Prophet"
Joanne Kyger, "The Parsimmons Are Falling"
David Meltzer, "Station"
Gary Snyder, "Across Lamarck Col"
George Stanley, "The Rescue"

San Francisco Express Times, vol. 1, no. 9, 21 March 1968
Published weekly from 24 January 1968 (vol. 1, no. 1) to 24 December 1968 (vol. 1, no. 49) as San Francisco Express Times. Continued after as Good Times. Published at 15 Lafayette Street, San Francisco by the Trystero Company. Printed by Waller Press.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "Squash," associated with the article "Please Plant This Page" in which Sandy Darlington profiles Brautigan's "Please Plant This Book,," using it as an example of how authors release books to their readers. See "Background" menu tab.

San Francisco Express Times, vol. 1, no. 27, 24 July 1968, p. 7.
Published weekly from 24 January 1968 (vol. 1, no. 1) to 24 December 1968 (vol. 1, no. 49) as San Francisco Express Times. Continued after as Good Times. Published at 15 Lafayette Street, San Francisco by the Trystero Company. Printed by Waller Press.

First Publication of Brautigan's poem "Mouths That Kissed in the Hot Ashes of Pompeii"

San Francisco Express Times, vol. 1, no. 32, August 28, 1968
Published weekly from 24 January 1968 (vol. 1, no. 1) to 24 December 1968 (vol. 1, no. 49) as San Francisco Express Times. Continued after as Good Times. Published at 15 Lafayette Street, San Francisco by the Trystero Company. Printed by Waller Press.

Reprints eight poems by Brautigan: "General Custer Versus the Titanic", "The Shenevertakesherwatchoff Poem", "Xerox Candy Bar", "Horse Child Breakfast", "Crab Cigar", "I Live in the Twentieth Century", "Alas, Measured Perfectly" and "The Way She Looks at It".

San Francisco Express Times, vol. 1, no. 49, December 24, 1968, pp. 8-9.
Published weekly from 24 January 1968 (vol. 1, no. 1) to 24 December 1968 (vol. 1, no. 49) as San Francisco Express Times. Continued after as Good Times. Published at 15 Lafayette Street, San Francisco by the Trystero Company. Printed by Waller Press.

Reprints eleven poems by Brautigan: "The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster," "The Day they Busted the Grateful Dead," "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace," "Discovery," "At the California Institute of Technology," "Boo, Forever," "The Sidney Greenstreet Blues," "The Flowerburgers Part 4," "A Baseball Game Part 7," "December 24," and "The Garlic Meat Lady from ."

San Francisco Keeper's Voice, vol. 1, no. 4, Apr. 1965, p. 6.
8.5" x 11", eight pages

Background
San Francisco Keeper's Voice featured illustrations, news, entertainment, and other information of interest to the animal keepers at the San Francisco Zoo and other interested readers. Published by Alexander Weiss, San Francisco, California. First volume appeared January 1965.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "October 2, 1960" appeared on the "Permanent Page of Particular Poetry." Biographical note reads
Richard Brautigan is a San Francisco poet and writer whose novel, A Confederate General from Big Sur, has recently been published by Grove Press.

The San Francisco Poets. Edited by David Meltzer. Ballantine Books, 1971, pp. 293-97, 304-305.

First publication of Brautigan's essay "Old Lady." Also reprints six poems by Brautigan from Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt: "Jules Verne Zucchini," "Propelled by Portals Whose Only Shame," "Donner Party," "In Her Sweetness Where She Folds My Wounds," "The Elbow of a Dead Duck," "As the Bruises Fade, the Lightning Aches" and a bibliographical checklist prepared by Brautigan. One of several reference books focusing on Brautigan.

The San Francisco Public Library: A Publishing House, 5 Dec. 1968, p 2.
Three wet process legal-size photocopy pages (8.5" x 14"); stapled; self-produced by Victor Moscoso, Jack Thibeau, and Brautigan.

The first page features Thibeau's contibution, a photocopy of his stomach and chest with decorative cut out stars. Thibeau's "signature" appears top center of the page, formed by the cut out typed phrase "Jack Thibeau" crossed by the cut out typed word "xeroxed."

In the center of the page, formed from typed and cut pieces of paper, appear the publication credits, prepared by Brautigan.
"The San Francisco Public Library:
A Publishing House

"This magazine was created and Xeroxed at the Main Library in the Civic Center using their ten cent Xerox machine on December 5, 1968 by: Victor Moscoso, Jack Thibeau, Richard Brautigan."

The first publication of Brautigan's poem "Mrs. Myrtle Tate, Movie Projectionist" appears on the second page, typed on white paper, cut out, and centered over a newspaper page featuring movie advertising.

Brautigan's handwritten signature appears in the upper left corner of the sheet, over the advertisement for the Orpheum Cinerama.

The entire event was planned and directed by Brautigan, who was intrigued with the idea of immediate publishing as a new form of public performance. Brautigan invited Thibeau and Moscoso to participate. Each was encouraged to produce a page, designed however they wished. Brautigan encouraged them to be creative. As part of his planning, Brautigan typed "This is one of seven numbered and signed copies" on seven separate small sheets of paper. Below each statement he typed a number. These statements were printed on seven copies of his page, each of which he signed. Thibeau and Moscoso signed copies of their pages as well. Brautigan compiled the three pages into little books, stapling each together. Allegedly, no more than twenty little books were made.

The event was photograhed by Edmund Shea, who produced three contact sheets of 35mm thumbnails of his photographs, thirty-six total. His photographs included the authors, other participants and onlookers, the ten cent copy machine, the Siamese cat Xenobia (belonging to Valerie Estes who accompanied Brautigan to the library and is seen in several of the photographs; Estes was given Xenobia as a Christmas present in 1967 by ex-husband Bob Morrill; Estes recounts a story involving Brautigan, cats, Lauren Sears, and Pat Ferraro), and the signing of copies.

The University of Virginia Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library website maintains a multimedia presentation of "Sixties Memorabilia" including this poster and Brautigan's "San Francisco Public Library: A Publishing House."

San Francisco Review, vol. 2, Spring 1959 p. 63.
6" x 9"; 88 pages; paperback with printed wrappers.

Also featured work by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, William Saroyan, James Broughton, and others. San Francisco Review was published in San Francisco, California, Winter 1958 (Volume #1) through September 1962 (Volume #13).

San Francisco Stories 1979
Paperback, with printed wrappers; 59 pages.
Edited by George Matchette, Robert Monson, and Charles Rubin.
Published in San Francisco, California. First issue of a biannual magazine of "Short Fiction by Bay Area Writers."

First publication of three stories by Brautigan: "Skylab at the Graves of Abbott and Costello," "Al's Rose Harbor," and "Waking Up Again." Also featured original works by Michael Rubin, Annette Dozier, Yuri Kageyama, Barry Gifford, Ray Scippa, and Jane Nudelman.

Shake the Kaleidoscope: A New Anthology of Modern Poetry. Edited by Milton Klonsky. Simon & Schuster, 1973

Reprints six poems by Brautigan: "To England," "November 3." "A Mid-February Sky Dance," "Mating Saliva." "Romeo and Juliet," "As the Bruises Fade, the Lightning Aches."

Space Colonies, 1977.
Whole Earth Catalog and Penguin Books; ISBN 0140048057

Reprints Brautigan's essay "Owls."

Sum, no. 3, May 1964, p. 23.
Subtitled "A Newsletter of Current Workings."
7" x 8.5"; 33 pages counting inside front and back covers
Mimeographed, folded and stapled
Published in Albuquerque, New Mexico, December 1963 (issue #1) - April 1965 (issue #7)
Edited by Fred Wah of the English Department at the University of New Mexico
Ron Loewinshohn, John Keys, and Ken Irby were contributing editors
"Notes," on the inside front cover say, "Richard Brautigan is copyrighting his prose from San Francisco."

First publication of Brautigan's story "September California."

The complete list of authors are: David Bromige, Robert Duncan, John Wieners, Frank Davey, Drummond Hadley, George Bowering, Carol Berge, David Cull, Jim St. Jim, Denise Levertov, Alan Kimball, Ken Irby, Steven Slavik, Sam Abrams, John Keys, Richard Brautigan, a review of Louis Zukefsky's Found Objects by Fred Wah, Ed Sanders, Paul Blackburn, Sylvester Pollet, Pat **?**, Gael Tunbull, and Fred Wah, in that order.

Sun, vol. 9, no. 7 August 1968.
Five unbound 8.5" x 11" sheets, folded for mailing.
Published at 1510 Hill Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan. A John Sinclair Trans-Love Energies publication.

Reprints two poems by Brautigan: "Mouths That Kissed in the Hot Ashes of Pompeii" (source credited as "in the San Francisco Express Times"; 1(27) July 24, 1968: 7) and "All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace" (source credited as "in the digger papers").

Also included work by Jack Kerouac and David Sinclair and news about the "long-awaited Youth International Party (YIPPIE) Festival of Life" which occurred 25-30 August 1968, simultaneously with the YIPPIE festival Democratic National Convention, both in Chicago, Illinois.

Totem May 1967.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "At the California Institute of Technology."

Totem was CalTech's literary magazine. Brautigan spent ten days at CalTech with San Francisco poet Andrew Hoyem. They taught workshops and gave readings. LEARN more

Transatlantic Review, vol. 58, no. 59, Feb. 1977, p. 117.
Published in London, England and New York, New York. Edited by J. F. McCrindle.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Bed Salesman."

TriQuarterly, vol. 1, Fall 1964, pp. 62-67.

Featured three chapters from Brautigan's upcoming novel "A Confederate General from Big Sur:" "Breaking Bread at Big Sur," "Preparing for Ecclesiastes," and "The Rivets in Ecclesiastes." Also featured a portfolio of picture-poems by Kenneth Patchen.

"Two Stories by Richard Brautigan." TriQuarterly, no. 5, Winter 1966, pp. 55-59.

First publication of two Brautigan stories: "Revenge of the Lawn" and "A Short History of Religion in California." The latter was inspired by meeting a group of Christians while Brautigan was camping with his 3.5-year-old daughter, Ianthe. Published in Evanston, Illinois.

TriQuarterly no. 11, (Winter) 1968, p. 194.
Published in Evanston, Illinois.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace."

TriQuarterly, vol. 35, Winter 1976, p. 89.
Published in Evanston, Illinois.
A two-volume set.

First publication of Brautigan's story, "Football," appears in Volume 1.

Vogue, vol. 154, no. 6, 1 October 1969, p. 126.
Written while living with Janice Meissner at 2830 California Street, San Francisco.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Weather in San Francisco."

Vogue, vol. 155, no. 1, 1 January 1970, p. 179.

First publication of "The Auction," Brautigan's story about his impoverished childhood in the Pacific Northwest

Vogue, vol. 156, no. 2, 1 August 1970, p. 98.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Winter Rug,".

Brautigan sent this story, based on an anecdote he heard from friend Bill Brown, to Jory Sherman at Broadside, a men's magazine published in North Hollywood, California, who rejected it saying, "As it stands, there is no way in hell that I can buy this. What you have here is more of a slice of life with very little point as it turns out." Vogue felt differently.

Vogue, vol. 157, no. 3, 1 February 1971, p. 192.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Old Bus."

Vogue, vol. 158, no. 1, July 1971, pp. 96-97.

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Homage to the San Francisco YMCA." When this story was incorporated into Revenge of the Lawn, it was retitled as "Homage to the San Francisco YMCA."

Volta, no. 1, March 2000
Limited edition of approximately 150 copies; 50 laid into Volta the rest given away to friends of the press.
Published by Jim Camp, Synaesthesia Press.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "Hey, Bacon!" which was printed on 2" x 3.5" cardboard cut from cereal boxes. The poem was printed on the blank side (inside) of the ceral box cutout. The already printed portion of the cereal box formed the reverse.

According to Camp, Volta is a direct descendent of Wallace Berman's magazine Semina, a free-form art and poetry journal that Berman published between 1955 and 1964. Each of the nine issues was printed on a handpress and then hand-assembled by Berman who glued artwork, photographs, small poems and other items inside. Sometimes the enclosed items were loose, laid in between the magazine's pages, or tucked into inside pockets without prescribed order or sequence. Each issue was extremely limited, a few hundred copies, ephemeral although focused on a loose theme, personal, and distributed mostly via the U.S. Mail to a very select group of recipients who were often the contributors as well. As a literary journal, each issue of Semina was a loosely assembled compendium of the most interesting artists and poets of the time, staking out a new cultural context for the evolving literature and art counterculture. Camp continues this tradition with his magazine, Volta. He prints and sends out each issue when it is complete. None of the issues can be bought. They simply arrive.

The Ways of the Poem. Edited by Josephine Miles. Prentice Hall, 1972, pp. 376-377.

Reprints Brautigan's poems "The Chinese Checkers Players" and "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace."

Wild Dog Vol. 18, 17 July 1965, p. 19.
Edited by Joanne Kyger.
Contributing Editor Edward Dorn,
Published at 39 Downey Street, San Francisco, California.

First publication of two poems by Brautigan: "The Buses" and "Period Piece." Also prints "At Sea," Brautigan's review of Michael McClure's Ghost Tantras. Also included work by Gino Clays, Harold Dull, Robert Duncan ("The Gift of Tongues or The Imagination"), Ken Irby, Ron Loewinsohn, Gilbert Sorrentino, Drew Wagnon, and Lewis Warsh.

The World, no. 21, Jan. 1971, n. pg.
Published in New York, New York. Edited by Anne Waldman. Magazine of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery.
8.5" x 14" mimeographed sheets.

First publication of four poems by Brautigan: "Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork," "Two Guys Get Out of a Car," "Punitive Ghosts Like Steam Driven Tennis Courts," and "It's Time To Train Yourself."

a visit from jake, X-Ray, no. 6, Winter 1996.

This excerpt from the upcoming Brautigan novel I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye was originally laid into X-Ray no. 6. This chapbook was reprinted separately later in the same year in an limited edition of 300 numbered and 26 lettered copies. First publication of a Brautigan chapbook entitled "A Visit From Jake", an excerpt from the upcoming Brautigan novel I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye. The chapbook was laid in as a separate item. Later, in the same year, this piece was reissued on its own in an limited edition of 300 numbered and 26 lettered copies.

X-Ray, no. 8, Summer 2001.
Limited edition of 100 lettered and 26 lettered and signed copies
4" x 4" letterpress broadside

Published by X-Ray Book and Novelty Company, Ventura, California, and laid into a 5" x 5" box with several items as an art assemblage. The box itself featured a letterpress wrapper.

First publication of the Brautigan poem "Desire in a Bowl of Potatoes," which was also issued separately
LEARN more at the X-Ray X-Ray Press website.

Also contained several letterpress broadsides featuring work by Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Dan Fante, Billy Childish, Michael Montfort, Bern Porter, Gerald Locklin, A.D. Winans, and others.

X-Ray, no. 9, Summer 2003.
Limited edition of 100 numbered and 26 lettered and signed copies
Published by X-Ray Book and Novelty Company, Ventura, California, and included with a flex-disc, various small broadsides and chapbooks, photographs, and art objects in a 8.5" x 7.75" cardboard box with printed wrap-around band as an art assemblage.

Included in this issue is the first publication of Brautigan's poem "Please" (as a 4" x 4" letterpress broadside) as well as work by Thurston Moore, Charles Bukowski, Dan Fante, Billy Childish, Michael Montfort, Bern Porter, A.D. Winans, and others.

Young America Sings: 1953 Anthology of Northwest States High School Poetry. National High School Poetry Association, 1953, p. 120.
Orange paper wrappers; plastic ring binding; front cover printed in black ink. Published in Los Angeles, California. Poem is part of the "Spring Semester Selections" and appears in the "Places" section. Credit: "Richard Brautigan—Eugene, H[igh]. S[chool]."

First publication of the Brautigan poem, "The Ochoco."

Background
Brautigan was in his final high school year at the time of publication. The Ochoco National Forest is located in north central Oregon, east of the Cascade Mountains. It was created in 1911 from parts of the Deschutes National Forest and is noted for its lakes, rivers, dense evergreen forests, and the magnificent rock formations of the Ochoco Mountains.

Eugene High School News, 19 Dec. 1952, p. 5.
Published under the larger title "Poet's Nook" and the subheading "Creative Writers Express Christmas Spirit." Credit: "Richard Brautigan." Included several poems by faculty and students, as well as Brautigan.

First publication of Brautigan's poem, "The Light."

Background
The Eugene High School News was the newspaper of Brautigan's high school in Eugene, Oregon. LEARN more. This poem was possibly Brautigan's first publication and his first as "Richard Brautigan." Until his final year of high school Brautigan was known as "Porterfield," the surname of his mother's second husband, Robert Geoffrey "Tex" Porterfield. Just before his graduation, he changed his surname from "Porterfield" to "Brautigan" and used that name for the rest of his life. Allegedly, Brautigan met his biological father, Bernard Brautigan, only twice. Bernard contended, upon learning of Brautigan's death, that he never knew he had a son. LEARN more.

The Northwest's Own Magazine, 11 Oct. 1953, p. 10.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Moonlight on a Cemetery."

Background
Part of a full-page feature of Oregon poets with the heading "State Recognizes Oregon Poets: Governor and mayor proclaim observance; work of local writers presented." The brief text, by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian read.

BY PROCLAMATIONS [sic] of Governor Paul Patterson and Portland's Mayor Fred Peterson, Oregon Poetry Day will be observed October 15. This Sunday, as a part of an ambitious program of prescheduled events, Oregonian Verse presents local poets in a featured full-page spread.

The editor regrets a number of fine poems submitted must be held over for a near-future column.

The idea of Poetry Day originated with Lucia Trent, a Texas poet, as a memorial to her poet husband Ralph Cheney. By a 1952 count, 38 states had joined in the movement to honor their poets. This was Oregon's fourth observance.

The Northwest's Own Magazine, 29 Nov. 1953, p. 11.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Part of "Oregonian Verse: First Publication Poetry" edited by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of the Brautigan poem, "Winter Sunset."

The Register-Guard, 24 Aug. 1953, p. 8A.
Eugene, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan"

First publication of the Brautigan poem, "A Cigarette Butt."

Young America Sings: 1953 Anthology of Northwest States High School Poetry. National High School Poetry Association, 1953, p. 120.
Orange paper wrappers; plastic ring binding; front cover printed in black ink. Published in Los Angeles, California. Poem is part of the "Spring Semester Selections" and appears in the "Places" section. Credit: "Richard Brautigan—Eugene, H[igh]. S[chool]."

First publication of the Brautigan poem, "The Ochoco."

Background
Brautigan was in his final high school year at the time of publication. The Ochoco National Forest is located in north central Oregon, east of the Cascade Mountains. It was created in 1911 from parts of the Deschutes National Forest and is noted for its lakes, rivers, dense evergreen forests, and the magnificent rock formations of the Ochoco Mountains.

The Northwest's Own Magazine, 7 Feb. 1954, p. 21.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Part of "Oregonian Verse: First Publication Poetry" edited by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of the Brautigan poem "The Ageless One."

Northwest Roto Magazine, 29 May 1955, p. 9.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Part of "Oregonian Verse: First Publication Poetry" edited by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of the Brautigan poem "So Many Twilights."

Northwest Roto Magazine, 14 Aug. 1955, p. 23.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Part of "Oregonian Verse: First Publication Poetry" edited by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "R. Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of Brautigan's poem "First Star on the Twilight River."

Northwest Roto Magazine, 2 Oct. 1955, p. 14.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Part of "Oregonian Verse: First Publication Poetry" edited by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of Brautigan poem "Butterfly's Breath."

Flame, vol. 2, no. 3, Autumn 1955, inside back cover.
Sixteen pages, green wrappers, stapled binding. Edited by Lilith Lorraine. Printed in London, England.

First publication of the Brautigan poem "Someplace in the World a Man is Screaming in Pain."

Background
Flame was published quarterly in Alpine, Texas, 1954-1963. Poems by Lorraine and Brautigan appeared together in the first issue of Danse Macabre in 1957. Brautigan's poem was 15 Stories in One Poem.

Smith, Claude, H. "Gab & Gossip." Fallon Standard, 25 July 1956, p. 6.

Background
First publication of two Brautigan poems, "Storm over Fallon" and "The Breeze." Published in a column titled "Gab & Gossip" written by Claude H. Smith, President of The Fallon Standard, published weekly (every Wednesday) in Fallon, Nevada. As an introduction, Smith wrote.
"When it comes to poetry or other types of literature, we leave to others the appraisal of what's good. Of poetry we are quite shy.

"This page, however, carries two short pieces of blank verse by a newcomer to Fallon, Richard Brautigan. They are local. We like them both. Do you?"

Barney Mergen writes of Brautigan's visit to Reno and Fallon, Nevada, is his memoir "A Strange Boy." LEARN more.

Epos, vol. 8, no. 2, Winter 1956, p. 23.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "The Second Kingdom," inspired by Linda Webster.

Background
Epos was a post-Beat avant-garde poetry magazine published by New Athenaeum Press, Lake Como, Florida. Edited by Evelyn Thorne and Will Tullos. Provided this biographical information concerning Brautigan.

"Richard Brautigan, 21, 'I have been writing poetry since I was 17. Olivant will publish my first book of poems, Tiger in the Telephone Booth. Making paper flowers out of love and death is a disease, but how beautiful it is.'"

Brautigan's reference to Tiger in the Telephone Booth as his first book of poetry comes from his correspondence with D. Vincent Smith, editor of the small literary magazine Olivant. Smith maintained publication offices in Fitzgerald, Georgia, and editorial offices in Japan where he was posted on active military duty. The first issue was published in 1956.

Smith wrote Brautigan in late 1955-early 1956 saying he intended to republish the poem Someplace in the World a Man is Screaming in Pain, published in the Fall 1955 issue of Flame, in the first issue of Olivant. He asked to see a selection of further writing for possible publication in a supplement to Olivant. Brautigan apparently sent Smith a selection of poems.

In July 1956, Smith wrote Brautigan again, saying he intended to publish all of Brautigan's submitted poems in a collection to be titled Tiger in the Telephone Booth. The book was never published. The Return of the Rivers, published in May 1957, is considered Brautigan's first poetry book publication. The poems intended for Tiger in the Telephone Booth were "lost."

The Caxton Poetry Review, vol. 1, no. 2, Winter 1957, p. ***.
Published 7 January 1957.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "A Correction."

Background
The Caxton Review was a quarterly magazine edited by Albert R. Temple and Evelyn T. Browning.

This was Brautigan's first professional publication after moving to San Francisco. His second was If the Wind Should Borrow Time, published in The Caxton Poetry Review, vol. 1, no. 3, Spring 1957, p. 17.

Lawrence Wright says Brautigan, wanting to meet poet Ron Loewinsohn, handed him this poem, which responds to Carl Sandburg's famous poem "Fog" (Wright 34). Wright, Lawrence. "The Life and Death of Richard Brautigan." Rolling Stone, no. 445, 11 Apr. 1985, pp. 29, 31, 34, 36, 38, 40, 59, 61.

Loewinshon said Brautigan handed him "a little notebook. On one page was a poem in this incredible handwriting, a six-year-old's handwriting, which was called 'A Correction' ... . I chuckled, handed the notebook back to him, and he just walked away" (Peter Manso and Michael McClure 65).

The Caxton Poetry Review, vol. 1, no. 3, Spring 1957, p. 17.
24 pages. Side-stapled into letterpress card folder. 191 x 138 mm. Pamphlet. Published 12 April 1957. 50 cents, on cover.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "If the Wind Should Borrow Time."

Background
This twelve-line poem is Brautigan's second professional publication after moving to San Francisco. The first was "A Correction", published in The Caxton Poetry Review, vol. 1, no. 2, Winter 1956.

This was Brautigan's fifteenth appearance in print (at age 22), his sixth outside Oregon (and Nevada), and his fifth outside a newspaper.

The Caxton Review was a quarterly magazine edited by Albert R. Temple and Evelyn T. Browning. Publisher: Caxton Press, Cincinnati, Ohio. No subsequent issues known beyond Number 3. The period July-December 1957.

Berkeley Review, vol. 1, no. 3, 1957, pp. 14-15.
Published 1921 Walnut Street, Berkeley, California, 1956-1957. Edited/published by William P. Barlow, Jr., George Huppert, and C. A. Tong. Published only one volume (with three issues) from Winter 1956 through 1957.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "The Horse That Had A Flat Tire." Also reprints his "The Return of the Rivers." Also featured work by Walter Ballenger, Adrian Stoutenberg, Barbara Cochran, May Swenson, Robert Beloof, Samuel Menashe, Donald Gutierrez, David Cornel DeJong, John Tagliabue, Anthony Ostroff, Richard Wilbur, Richard Eberhart, and Robert Horan.

Epos, vol. 8, no. 4, Summer 1957, p. 6.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "A Young Poet."

Background
Epos was a post-Beat avant-garde poetry magazine published by New Athenaeum Press, Lake Como, Florida. Edited by Will Tullos and Evelyn Thorne.

Hedley, Leslie Woolf, editor. Four New Poets. Inferno Press, 1957, pp. 3-9.
Thirty-four pages. Printed and stapled wrappers. Published Fall 1957.

First publication of four Brautigan poems: "The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth's Beer Bottles," "The Mortuary Bush," "Twelve Roman Soldiers and an Oatmeal Cookies," "Gifts." This was Brautigan's first book appearance prior to his own solely authored book, The Return of the Rivers.

Four New Poets featured poetry by four poets the editor described as "representing an articulate segment of a sometime-called 'silent generation'." Of Brautigan Hedley said, "Richard Brautigan is a young poet who was born January 30, 1935 in Tacoma, Washington. He now lives in San Francisco where he is working on a book of poems, The Horse That Had A Flat Tire."

The other three poets were: Martin Hoberman, Carl Larsen, and James M. Singer. At the time of publication, none of the poets were over the age of 25. Larsen edited Existaria, a Journal of Existant Hysteria, in which, in 1957, Brautigan published two poems: "The Daring Little Guy on the Burma Shave Sign" and "The World Will Never End."

Inferno Press issued 6.5" x 3.5" announcements for the book, printed in blue and gold ink on one side of heavy white paper and illustrated with a gold handprint. The promotional blurb read, "This collection from the work of four young poets, all under 25, presents an interesting contrast that is most refreshing after so much orthodoxy in current American poetry."

Leslie Woolf Hedley also edited a small poetry journal called Inferno. A total of eleven issues were published between 1950 and 1956. "Although Inferno did print a few significant Bay Area poets, the editorial bent seemed to be primarily international anonymity" (Eloyde Tovey 31).

Mainstream, vol. 2, no. 2, Summer-Autumn 1957, p. 14.
5" x 9". 63 pages. Bound in titled, over-laid wraps.
Subtitled "A Quarterly Journal of Poetry, The Arts and Contemporary Comment." This issue labeled the "San Francisco Issue."

First publication of the Brautigan poem "The Final Ride."

Background
Mainstream was edited by Robin Raey Cuscaden and Ronald Offen. Published published at 17 South Cedar Street, Palatine, Illinois, by Jack R. Lander. Ceased publication with Volume 2, Number 3, Winter 1958.

Existaria, a Journal of Existant Hysteria, vol. 7, Sep.-Oct. 1957, p. 14.

Background
First publication of two poems by Brautigan: "The Daring Little Guy on the Burma Shave Sign" and "The World Will Never End." The second stanza of "The World Will Never End" was reprinted in 1959 as "The Sink." "The Sink."

Existaria, a Journal of Existant Hysteria was edited by Carl Larsen. Published at 328 Palm Drive, Hermosa Beach, California. Printed by Ottumwa Duplicating Service, Ottumwa, Iowa. Ceased publication with Volume #7, September/October 1957. Larsen was one of the poets included, along with Brautigan, in the book Four New Poets. Learn more.

Also included work by O. W. Crane, Jed Garrick, Charles Bukowski, Rozana Webb, Joseph Martinek, Cerise Farallon, Fred Cogswell, E. W. Northnagel, Claudia Archuletta, Clarence Major, Apollinaire, John Charles Chadwick, Rockwell B. Schaefer, and Judson Crews.

Danse Macabre, vol. 1, no. 1, 1957, pp. 18-19.

Background
First publication of two Brautigan poems: "They Keep Coming Down the Dark Streets" and "15 Stories in One Poem."

Danse Macabre, Edited and published by R. T. Baylor, began publication in 1957, and was published quarterly at 653 12th Street, Manhattan Beach, California. Printed by Ottumwa Duplicating Service, Ottumwa, Iowa.

This issue also featured work by Orma McCormick, Richard Dwyer, Lilith Lorraine, Judson Crews, James Boyer May, and Carl Larsen, who edited the journal Existaria, a Journal of Existant Hysteria in which Brautigan published two poems: "The Daring Little Guy on the Burma Shave Sign" and "The World Will Never End" in 1957. Larsen was also one of the poets included, along with Brautigan, in the book Four New Poets. Learn more. Lilith Lorraine edited the journal Flame in which Brautigan published the poem "Someplace in the World a Man is Screaming in Pain" in 1955.

Hearse: A Vehicle Used to Convey the Dead, vol. 2, 1958, inside back cover.

Reprints the Brautigan poem "15 Stories in One Poem."

Published at 3118 K. Street, Eureka, California. Seventeen issues, 1957-1972. Edited by E. V. Griffith who described his journal as ". . . an irreverant quarterly, carrying poetry, prose artwork and incidental cadaver to the Great Cemetery of the American Intellect. . ." Brautigan's poem appeared under the heading "Coroner's Report," a series of annoucements by Griffith, and seemed to drive Griffith's introduction of Danse Macabre. Griffith noted "the above poem, published in the pilot issue of DANSE MACABRE, reappears here as an introduction to a spirited new magazine which merits wide readership. . . ."

Hearse: A Vehicle Used to Convey the Dead, vol. 3, 1958, n. pg.

Reprints the following Brautigan poems: "Twelve Roman Soldiers and an Oatmeal Cookies" and "The Mortuary Bush."

Epos, vol. 9, no. 3, Spring 1958, pp. 20-21.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Kingdon Come."

Epos was a post-Beat avant-garde poetry magazine published by New Athenaeum Press, Lake Como, Florida. Edited by Will Tullos and Evelyn Thorne.

Epos Anthology 1958.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "The Second Kingdom," inspired by Linda Webster

Also included works by Clark Ashton Smith ("Ecclesiastes"), A. A. Ammons, and others.

San Francisco Review, vol. 2, Spring 1959 p. 63.
6" x 9"; 88 pages; paperback with printed wrappers.

Also featured work by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, William Saroyan, James Broughton, and others. San Francisco Review was published in San Francisco, California, Winter 1958 (Volume #1) through September 1962 (Volume #13).

Beatitude, no. 1, 9 May 1959, n. pg.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets with illustrated front cover of construction paper; No back cover.

Background
First publication of the Brautigan poem "The Whorehouse at the Top of Mount Rainier."

Also featured work by William J. Margolis, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, Monty Pike, B. Uronovitz, Robert Stock, Dave DeSilver, Bob Hartman, Mark Green, Carol Mann, John Richardson, Pierre Henri Delattre, Lew Gardner, and Joe Gould.

Beatitude was a San Francisco beatnik magazine founded by poets Bob Kaufman, John Kelly, and William J. Margolis. Issues 1-7 published weekly at 14 Bannam Alley. Issues 8 until cessation of publication at the end of the year were published monthly at the Bread and Wine Mission, 510 Greenwich Street, San Francisco, California.

Beatitude, vol. 4, 30 May 1959.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets with illustrated front cover.

Background
First publication of four Brautigan poems: "The American Submarine," "A Postcard from the Bridge," "That Girl," and "The Sink."

"The Sink", reprints the second stanza of Brautigan's 1957 poem "The World Will Never End."

Also featured work by Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, Ruth Weiss, Richard McBride, Stan Persky, and William Margolis.

Beatitude was a San Francisco beatnik magazine founded by poets Bob Kaufman, John Kelly, and William J. Margolis. Issues 1-7 published weekly at 14 Bannam Alley. Issues 8 until cessation of publication at the end of the year were published monthly at the Bread and Wine Mission, 510 Greenwich Street, San Francisco, California.

Beatitude vol. 9, 18 Sep. 1959.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets with illustrated front cover.

Background
First publication of the Brautigan poem "Swandragons." This issue also featured work by Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, David Meltzer, Bob Kaufman, William Margolis, Ron Padgett, Barbara Moraff, Richard McBride, Peter Orlovsky, and Philip Lamantia.

Beatitude was a San Francisco beatnik magazine founded by poets Bob Kaufman, John Kelly, and William J. Margolis. Issues 1-7 published weekly at 14 Bannam Alley. Issues 8 until cessation of publication at the end of the year were published monthly at the Bread and Wine Mission, 510 Greenwich Street, San Francisco, California.

J, no. 1, Sep. 1959, p. n. pg.
Printed on 8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets.
J magazine was privately published in San Francisco, California, 1959-1961, eight issues. Edited by Jack Spicer and George Stanley. Also featured work by Robert Duncan, James Alexander, Ebbe Borregaard, Robin Blaser, Jack Spicer, Joe Dunn, Sam the Tenor Man, and Kay Johnson.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "The Fever Monument."

Foot, no.1, September 1959.
Published in San Francisco, California. Edited by Richard Duerdan. Cover art of a pair of human feet by Robert Duncan.

First publication of five poems by Brautigan: "The Rape of Ophelia," "Postcard from Chinatown," "The Nature Poem," "Horse Race," "The Last Music is Not Heard." Also featured work by [Burgess] Jess Collins, Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Philip Whalen, Gary Snyder, and others.

J, no. 4, Nov. 1959.
Printed on 8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets; 16 pages. Hand-colored blue and green illustration on front cover.
J magazine was privately published in San Francisco, California, 1959-1961, eight issues. Edited by Jack Spicer and George Stanley.

First publication of three poems by Brautigan: "The Pumpkin Tide ," "The Sidney Greenstreet Blues," and "Surprise."

Also featured work by Robert Duncan, Joanne Kyger, Josef Elias, Donald Merriam Allen, John Ryan, Jack Spicer, George Stanley, and Wallace Allen.

J, no. 5, December 1959.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets. Front cover illustrated with a hand-colored gold border.
J magazine was privately published in San Francisco, California, 1959-1961, eight issues. Edited by Jack Spicer and George Stanley.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "1942" as well as work by L. Frank Baum, Larry Eigner, [Burgess] Jess Collins, Ron Loewinsohn, George Stanley, Robert Duncan, Richard Duerden, and Jack Spicer. LEARN more.

Beatitude Anthology. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1960, pp. 34-36.

Reprints five Brautigan poems: "The American Submarine," "A Postcard from the Bridge," "That Girl," and "The Whorehouse at the Top of Mount Rainier," and "Swandragons."

Hearse: A Vehicle Used to Convey the Dead, vol. 9, 1961, p. 4.

First publication of the Brautigan poem "The Rain." "The Rain."

Background
Published at 3118 K. Street, Eureka, California. Seventeen issues, 1957-1972. Edited by E. V. Griffith who described Hearse as ". . . an irreverant quarterly, carrying poetry, prose artwork and incidental cadaver to the Great Cemetery of the American Intellect. . ."

"Trout Fishing in America." City Lights Journal, no. 1, 1963, pp. 27-32.
112 pages; Paperback, perfect bound with printed wrappers. Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA. Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Front cover photograph by Gary Snyder of Allen Ginsberg in the Central Himalayas. Dedicated to e. e. cummings and William Carlos Williams.

Featured three chapters from Brautigan's upcoming book "Trout Fishing in America" : "Worsewick," "The Salt Creek Coyotes," and "A Half-Sunday Homage to a Whole Leonardo da Vinci." Also featured a photograph of Brautigan. These three chapters are the earliest known publication of any part of the novel Trout Fishing in America.

In addition to this work by Brautigan, this issue also featured works by W. C. Williams, Anselm Hollo, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Daniel Moore, Ed Sanders, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Harold Norse, Ted Joans, Michael McClure, Stuart Z. Perkofff, Mayakovsky (translated by Hirschman and Erlich), Henri Michaux (translated by Corman), Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Antonin Artaud (translated by Rattray), and Bruce Conner. Poetry by Daniel Moore and Harold Norse was included in the first paperback collections published by Grove Press in 1957.

Of Brautigan, Barry Silesky said, "Also included was fiction writer Richard Brautigan, who had been writing and reading his poetry around North Beach since the fifties, even selling copies ... for small change on street corners. Three sections of Brautigan's strange, inviting, deceptively simple Trout Fishing in America appeared; it was an important early exposure for him that helped open the way to a wider audience, and to publication of that novel in 1967, as well as his previously written comic Confederate General in [sic] Big Sur in 1964. Both of them became best-sellers, and by the late sixties, Brautigan's following had grown from a tiny cult to a huge section of the swelling counterculture, rivaling that of Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti himself" (Barry Silesky 122).

Change, 1963, n. pg.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Coffee."

The only issue of Brautigan's own literary journal, edited with Ron Loewinsohn, Change. Also called Change, the Fastest Car on Earth (Peter Manso and Michael McClure 65). Mimeographed sheets (8.5" x 11") with a photograph of Loewinsohn and Brautigan on the front cover. Published in San Francisco, California.

"Trout Fishing in America." Evergreen Review, no. 31, Oct.-Nov. 1963, pp.12-27.

Featured four chapters from Brautigan's upcoming novel: "The Hunchback Trout," "Room 208, Hotel Trout Fishing in America," "The Surgeon," and "The Cleveland Wrecking Yard." Also featured work by Anselm Hollo, Pauline Reage, Andrei Voznesensky, Lenore Kandel, Harold Norse, Robert Coover, W. S. Merwin, Jack Kerouac, and Douglas Woolf.

Evergreen Review, published in New York, NY, 1957-1973, was edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriman Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

Kulchur, no. 13, Spring 1964, pp. 51-55.
Published in New York, New York spring 1960 (issue #1) through winter 1965 (issue #20) and offered serious commentary or criticism about literature, film, politics, and music. This issue (no. 13) was edited by Lita Hornick, Frank O'Hara (art), and Leroi Jones (music).

First publication of the Brautigan story "The Post Offices of Eastern Oregon."

Contributing editors: Charles Olson, Gilbert Sorrentino, A. B. Spellman, and Bill Berks. Authors include Allen Ginsberg ("The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express July 18, 1963"), Gilbert Sorrentino ("The Art of Hubert Selby"), Pauline Kael ("Film Review"), Warren Tallman ("Robert Creeley's Portrait of the Artist"), Allan Kaplan, and Joe LeSuer.
The front cover photograph was taken from Andy Warhol's movie The Kiss (1963, 54 minutes).

Lita Hornick, editor, recounts the contents saying that in Kulchur 13, "Richard Brautigan, then a relatively unknown writer, contributed a characteristic piece of fiction called "The Post Offices of Eastern Oregon" (Hornick. "Kulchur: Memoir." TriQuarterly, no. 43, Fall, 1978, pp. 280-297).

Sum, no. 3, May 1964, p. 23.
Subtitled "A Newsletter of Current Workings."
7" x 8.5"; 33 pages counting inside front and back covers
Mimeographed, folded and stapled
Published in Albuquerque, New Mexico, December 1963 (issue #1) - April 1965 (issue #7)
Edited by Fred Wah of the English Department at the University of New Mexico
Ron Loewinshohn, John Keys, and Ken Irby were contributing editors
"Notes," on the inside front cover say, "Richard Brautigan is copyrighting his prose from San Francisco."

First publication of Brautigan's story "September California."

The complete list of authors are: David Bromige, Robert Duncan, John Wieners, Frank Davey, Drummond Hadley, George Bowering, Carol Berge, David Cull, Jim St. Jim, Denise Levertov, Alan Kimball, Ken Irby, Steven Slavik, Sam Abrams, John Keys, Richard Brautigan, a review of Louis Zukefsky's Found Objects by Fred Wah, Ed Sanders, Paul Blackburn, Sylvester Pollet, Pat **?**, Gael Tunbull, and Fred Wah, in that order.

"Trout Fishing in America" 2." Evergreen Review, no. 33, Aug.-Sept. 1964, pp. 42-47.

Featured five chapters from Brautigan's upcoming novel: "Witness for Trout Fishing in America Peace," "A Note on the Camping Craze That is Currently Sweeping America," "The Pudding Master of Stanley Basin," "In the California Bush," and "Trout Death by Port Wine." Also featured work by John Fowles, Robert Gover, Blaise Cendrars (translated by Anselm Hollo), Jakov Lind, Michael O'Donoghue, Julian Beck, Judith Malina, Jack Kerouac, Lysander Kemp, Alden Van Buskirk, and Harold Pinter.

Evergreen Review, published in New York, NY, 1957-1973, was edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriman Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

TriQuarterly, vol. 1, Fall 1964, pp. 62-67.

Featured three chapters from Brautigan's upcoming novel "A Confederate General from Big Sur:" "Breaking Bread at Big Sur," "Preparing for Ecclesiastes," and "The Rivets in Ecclesiastes." Also featured a portfolio of picture-poems by Kenneth Patchen.

San Francisco Art Festival: A Poetry Folio 1964. East Wind Printers, 1964.
Limited Edition of 300 copies
Broadsides; 12.75" x 20" on heavy cream-colored paper

Reprints Brautigan's story "September California" illustrated by Richard Correll
Signed by both Correll and Brautigan (although Brautigan did not sign all copies).

Published in San Francisco, California, as one of ten broadsides for the San Francisco Arts Festival Commission. The collection was contained in a folio-sized folder. The other nine similiarly-sized broadsides were all illustrated by Correll and signed by him and their respective authors (except for David Meltzer who refused to sign his contribution).

The other nine broadsides are
James R. Broughton, "I Heard in the Shell"
[Burgess] Jess Collins, "When Did Morning Wind Rip Callow Flowers in May"
Max Finstein, "There's Always a Moon in America"
Andrew Hoyem, "Stranger"
Lenore Kandel, "Vision of the Skull of The Prophet"
Joanne Kyger, "The Parsimmons Are Falling"
David Meltzer, "Station"
Gary Snyder, "Across Lamarck Col"
George Stanley, "The Rescue"

San Francisco Keeper's Voice, vol. 1, no. 4, Apr. 1965, p. 6.
8.5" x 11", eight pages

Background
San Francisco Keeper's Voice featured illustrations, news, entertainment, and other information of interest to the animal keepers at the San Francisco Zoo and other interested readers. Published by Alexander Weiss, San Francisco, California. First volume appeared January 1965.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "October 2, 1960" appeared on the "Permanent Page of Particular Poetry." Biographical note reads
Richard Brautigan is a San Francisco poet and writer whose novel, A Confederate General from Big Sur, has recently been published by Grove Press.

Wild Dog Vol. 18, 17 July 1965, p. 19.
Edited by Joanne Kyger.
Contributing Editor Edward Dorn,
Published at 39 Downey Street, San Francisco, California.

First publication of two poems by Brautigan: "The Buses" and "Period Piece." Also prints "At Sea," Brautigan's review of Michael McClure's Ghost Tantras. Also included work by Gino Clays, Harold Dull, Robert Duncan ("The Gift of Tongues or The Imagination"), Ken Irby, Ron Loewinsohn, Gilbert Sorrentino, Drew Wagnon, and Lewis Warsh.

Now Now, no. 2, 1965, n. pg.
Counterculture magazine published in San Francisco, California, by Ari Publications from 1963 (issue #1) to 1965 (issue #3).

First publication of Brautigan's story "Banners of My Own Choosing."

Now Now was edited by Charles Plymell who said, "I sat with Richard Brautigan in some of the new head shops and discussed the scene. He had a sense of what the new generation liked to hear. I took some of his poems to publish in an issue of Now magazine (289). . . . It was the time of nude parties and free love, when women's bodies were painted on. The last time I saw Richard Brautigan was at such a party" (Plymell 292-293). Plymell also printed the first issues of Zap comic with illustrations by Robert Crumb. Other contributors included Philip Whalen, Bruce Conner, Wallace Berman (collage), Allen Ginsberg, Lew Welch, Michael Bowen (collage), George Herms, and Dennis Hopper.

A Legend of Horses Poems and Stories
No stated publisher, but possibly Pacific Red Car Press
No printing, place, or date information
5" x 9"; Printed wrappers; Stapled binding

Reprints ten Brautigan poems
"A Legend of Horses" and
"A Moth in Tucson, Arizona,"
"Hinged to Forgetfulness Like a Door,"
"Heroine of the Time Machine,"
"The Buses" and
"Period Piece."
"Psalm."
"Towards the Pleasures of a Reconstituted Crow,"
"The Memoirs of Jesse James,"
"Love's Not The Way to Treat a Friend,"
and the Brautigan story "What Are You Going to Do with 390 Photographs of Christmas Trees."

"Two Stories by Richard Brautigan." TriQuarterly, no. 5, Winter 1966, pp. 55-59.

First publication of two Brautigan stories: "Revenge of the Lawn" and "A Short History of Religion in California." The latter was inspired by meeting a group of Christians while Brautigan was camping with his 3.5-year-old daughter, Ianthe. Published in Evanston, Illinois.

Parallel, vol. 1, no. 3, July-August 1966, pp. 10-12.
Published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Edited by Peter Desbarats. Illustrated by Morris Danylewich.

Inspiration for this story came from Brautigan's reimagining of what folksingers call a "floater verse," a lyric easily transposed into different songs. For example, the lines "I'd rather live in some dark holler / where the sun refused to shine . . ." were used in at least two Appalachian folk songs: "Little Maggie" and "Hard, Ain't It Hard." Brautigan noted these lines in his notebook, and then changed them to "where the wild birds of heaven / can't hear me when I whine." These lines became the basis for his story.

Desbarats notes Brautigan on "The Editor's Page, saying, "The West Coast below Vancouver is also the home of Richard Brautigan, a young American writer, whose short story "The Wild Birds of Heaven" appears in this issue. His first novel is being published by Grove Press in New York."

Feedback from Denis R. Robillard
I received a telephone call late this afternoon from Peter Desbarats in London. He is a retired Journalism professor from University of Western Ontario. He also wrote several books and plied his early journalism trade in Montreal both with TV and print media. In 2006 he was the recipient of a Order of Canada medal.

Desbarats comes from a long line of printers. His ancestor George was Queens Printer and also edited the Illustrated News in Montreal for a couple of decades. His partner in this outfit was Leggo. George Desbarats later went on to buy some land around Sault Ste. Marie known as the Desbarats Territory and had interest in some mines there.

Peter called me in response to a letter I sent him in London in September. I was trying to track down the connection that he may have had to a Montreal magazine which published Richard Brautigan's short story "The Wild Birds of Heaven" in 1966.

Here is what he told me over the telephone.

Peter had been doing some freelance work in Montreal when he was approached by Douglas Cohen, a real estate broker and lawyer from Montreal, who wanted to launch a literary magazine which would have international scope and reach.

Cohen wanted Desbarats to be the editor of this fledgling outfit. The managing editor was a woman from the United States who had experience with magazines. Their advertising was handled by a retired ad man named Peter Mathiews.

In 1966, the first issue of Parallel came out. The issue in which Brautigan's story appeared was the August 1966 issue, Volume 1 Number 3 which ran to 58 pages.

On The Editor's Page Desbarats dedicated a few lines to Brautigan saying he was a young American writer who was soon publishing his first novel under Grove Press.

Desbarats didn't remember the press run by says that about 10,000 copies of Parallel sold in Montreal and other city centers.

Parallel was published in the mezzanine area of a building complex owned by Douglas Cohen, which happened to house a beauty shop. Desbarats told Cohen to leave the cosmetology equipment there and he and other staff members worked around it to produce Parallel.
— Denis R. Robillard. Email to John F. Barber, 28 October 2008.

Evergreen Review, no, 42, Aug. 1966, pp. 30-32, 86.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Menu" (which was later collected under the name "The Menu/1965") where he discussed the menu served to San Quentin Death Row prisoners saying, "It's so stark, so real . . . it's like a poem. This menu alone condemns our society. To feed somebody this kind of food who is already effectively dead represents all the incongruity of the whole damn thing. It's senseless."

Editor Robert Sherrill contacted Brautigan in March 1965 and saying he wanted a story about death row. Sherrill wanted a story based on facts, but told with fictional techniques and Brautigan's point of view, a funny story pointing to the absurdity rather than the horror of the lives of those livingon death row. Esquire offered US$600.00, plus expenses, plus a US$200.00 guarantee in case they refused the story. Brautigan contacted Associate Warden in charge of press relations James Park, 1 April asking if he might visit San Quentin death row. Brautigan rode a bus from San Francisco to San Quentin in Marin County. Brautigan filled fourteen pages in his notebook with notes about the condemed men and their last words. He was interested in what the men of death row ate regularly. Warden Park gave him a copy of the menu listing everything the men on death row could eat the week of 12-18 April 1965. Back in San Francisco, Brautigan shared his notes and observations with Zekial Marko (the "aspiring Hollywood scriptwriter" noted in the story), Philip Whalen, Lew Welch, and others. He incorporated several of their remarks into his final story which he sent to Sherrill before the end of the month. Brautigan included the actual menu, as a piece of found art, in the middle of his story. Sherrill edited Brautigan's story, but then declined to publish it in Esquire. Brautigan placed Sherrill's edited version in Evergreen Review the following year.

Evergreen Review, published in New York, New York, 1957-1973, was edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriam Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

O'er, no. 2, December 1966, pp. 107-109.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets of different colored construction paper; 128 pages; staple binding
Published in San Francisco, California, by Cranium Press.
Edited by David Sandberg.
Called variously Awwr, O'er, and Oar at different points of this issue. First issue appeared April 1966 and was titled or #1.

First publication of three poems by Brautigan: "The House" and "My Nose is Growing Old" and "November 3." Each poem appeared on a separate page. "My Nose is Growing Old" and "November 3" were collected in All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. The poem "The House" was not included in any collection. In addition to Brautigan's poems, this issue also featured a full-page advertisement for The Galilee Hitch-Hiker to be published by Oar, complete with made up blurbs promoting the book. Also included contributions by Jack Spicer, Lew Welch, Anselm Hollo, John Sinclair, Clark Coolidge, and others.

R. C. Lion, no. 2, 1966, pp. 4-5.
8.5" x 11"; 26 pages; Mimeographed sheets; stapled; Cover same stock as interior pages;
Published by the University of California, Berkeley Rhymers Club, Berkeley, California. Subtitled "The Magazine That Submerges Periodically" and called variously Our Sea Lion or Ah, Sue Lyon.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Pretty Office."

Only three issues. Edited by David Bromige, Sherril Jaffe, David Schaff, and Ron Loewinsohn. This issued featured work by Anselm Hollo, Richard Brautigan, David Schaff, Jo Marsten, Ted Berrigan, David Bromige, Ross Angier, Sherril Jaffe, Bob May, Red Baren, David Schaff (again), Johannes Amicus, Jim St. Jim, and Ron Loewinsohn, in that order.

Coyote's Journal, no. 5/6, 1966, p. 81.
116 pages

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Study in California Flowers".

Imprint varies. Number 1-4 published in Eugene, Oregon; number 5-8 in San Francisco, California by City Lights; Number 9- in Berkeley, CA by Book People; Number 11 in Brunswick, Maine by Coyote Books; Number 12 in Brattleboro, Vermont by Coyote Books.

Totem May 1967.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "At the California Institute of Technology."

Totem was CalTech's literary magazine. Brautigan spent ten days at CalTech with San Francisco poet Andrew Hoyem. They taught workshops and gave readings. LEARN more

The Pacific Nation 1 Summer 1967
Volume 1 featured, under the title "Trout Fishing in America (1-5)" the first five chapters from Brautigan's upcoming book Trout Fishing in America: "The Cover of Trout Fishing in America," "Knock on Wood (Part One)," "Knock on Wood (Part Two)," "Red Lip," and "The Kool-Aid Wino" (34-40).

Other contributors included Robin Blaser, Jim Herndon, Charles Olsen, George Stanley, and Michael McClure. The front cover featured a drawing by John Button.

Spicer promoted the idea of a "Pacific Nation" comprised of "healthily unlikeminded" people that would extend from San Francisco up the coast to Canada and perhaps as far north as Alaska. The product of this new nation was to be poetry, as was its language (Ellingham and Killian 300-301). An offshoot of this was Pacific Nation, a journal edited by Robin Blaser and published in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The journal was issued in two volumes, the first in 1967 and the second in 1969.

Brautigan referenced Spicer and his notion of a Pacific Nation in his poem, Our Beautiful West Coast Thing.

Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance by Lewis Ellingham provides a definitive biography of Spicer, as well as interesting information about Brautigan.

Spicer died 17 August 1965 in San Francisco from complications associated with alcoholism.

Additional Resources
The Jacket
Provides a "Jack Spicer Chronology" that relates Spicer's life and activities to ongoing world events.

Jack Spicer feature essay in Jacket #7.

"The Cleveland Wrecking Yard." The New Writing in the USA. Edited by Donald Merriam Allen and Robert Creeley. Penguin, 1967, pp. 33-38.

Features chapters from Brautigan's upcoming book Trout Fishing in America

Nice, vol. 1, no. 1, 1967, n. pg.
Published in Brightlingsea, Essex, England, 1966-1967. Edited by Thomas Clark.

Nice is the tenth in a series of issues, each described as "a one shot magazine," each edited by Clark and published as "Vol. 1 No. 1." Each issue had a different cover title: "Once," "Twice," "Thrice," "Thrice and 1/2?," "Frice," "Vice," "Spice," "Slice," "Ice," and "Nice." All were collected in The Once Series and reprinted by Krause Reprint Company (New York, 1970).

Clark apparently solicited this story for his magazine. In a letter to Clark, dated September 7, 1965, Brautigan thanks him for his postcard (the request for a submission?) and says, "I have enclosed a short story called "The Armored Car" that I hope will interest you." Brautigan asks for "two copies of the issue that it [the story] is printed in" and that the copyright notice is printed with the story, "if you decide you want to use the story." Brautigan concludes his letter, "Anyway, your magazine sounds like fun." LEARN more.

The dedication for this story reads: "For Janice."
This was Janice Meissner with whom Brautigan lived from November 1964-May 1966. The couple lived together at three different addresses: 533 Divisadero Street (apartment 4), 544 Divisadero Street, and 2830 California Street. Photographer Erik Weber photographed them together. Brian Nation lived nearby and provides an account of his relationship with Brautigan and Meissner.

Free City News, no. 1, October 1967.
San Francisco

Many leaves (but not Brautigan's) were printed on both sides with illustrated poems and prose pieces and news commentary. All were anonymous.
Artwork by Stanley Muse.
An anthology of ten poems, each published as broadsides by the Diggers. Also issued separately.
8.5" x 14" white construction-like paper of various colors; Ten leaves (broadsides) plus illustrated front and back wrappers.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Boo, Forever," here untitled and so often cited by its first line: "Spinning Like a Ghost." This broadside was also issued seprately.

Brautigan's poem, without title, was centered on the page, framed by an Egyptian-style erotic illustration and a numbered listing of Kama Sutra sexual positions.

Brautigan originally titled this poem part of "Three Poems to Celebrate the History of Marcia" in reference to Marcia Pacaud.

Ramparts, vol. 6, no. 5, December 1967, pp. 43-45.

First publication of Brautigan's story "1/3, 1/3, 1/3" and a photograph by Baron Wolman of Brautigan, one of several he took in 1967 for publicity. Also included was a review by Stephen Schneck of Trout Fishing in America. Schneck participated on the Creative Arts Conference program with Brautigan in August 1969.

Hollow Orange, no. 4 1967, n. pg.
Published at 642 Shrader Street, San Francisco, California by Cranium Press
Edited by Clifford Burke
String tied wrappers

First publication of three poems by Brautigan: "Comets," "It's Raining in Love," and "Nine Things."

Also featured works by Keith Abbott, Bill Bathurst, Clifford Burke, Nick Chavin, Gino Clays, Zoltan Farkas, Max Finstein, Eugene Lesser, Martin MacClain, Jeff Sheppard (A poet friend of Brautigan to whom the poem "Hey! This Is What It's All About" was dedicated.), Ronald Silliman, David Tammer, David Sandberg, Patrick Nolan, and Steve Carey.

Grosseteste Review, vol. 1, no. 3, Winter 1968.

Reprints Brautigan's story "A Study in California Flowers."

Published in Lincoln, England. This 48-page issue also featured work by Joanne Kyger, David Chaloner, John Newlove, Curtis Zahn, Peter Riley, and Man Wright.

TriQuarterly no. 11, (Winter) 1968, p. 194.
Published in Evanston, Illinois.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace."

San Francisco Express Times, vol. 1, no. 9, 21 March 1968
Published weekly from 24 January 1968 (vol. 1, no. 1) to 24 December 1968 (vol. 1, no. 49) as San Francisco Express Times. Continued after as Good Times. Published at 15 Lafayette Street, San Francisco by the Trystero Company. Printed by Waller Press.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "Squash," associated with the article "Please Plant This Page" in which Sandy Darlington profiles Brautigan's "Please Plant This Book,," using it as an example of how authors release books to their readers. See "Background" menu tab.

San Francisco Express Times, vol. 1, no. 27, 24 July 1968, p. 7.
Published weekly from 24 January 1968 (vol. 1, no. 1) to 24 December 1968 (vol. 1, no. 49) as San Francisco Express Times. Continued after as Good Times. Published at 15 Lafayette Street, San Francisco by the Trystero Company. Printed by Waller Press.

First Publication of Brautigan's poem "Mouths That Kissed in the Hot Ashes of Pompeii"

The Digger Papers. August 1968, p. 11.
A 24-page phamphlet compilation of previous Digger publications. Edited by Paul Krassner.
Reprints Brautigan's poem "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" and work by others. Brautigan admired the Diggers, a San Francisco counter-culture group, for their free services to the needy and "gave" them this poem, which they reproduced and distributed throughout the city. Information about this poem at the Digger Archives website. LEARN more

Sun, vol. 9, no. 7 August 1968.
Five unbound 8.5" x 11" sheets, folded for mailing.
Published at 1510 Hill Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan. A John Sinclair Trans-Love Energies publication.

Reprints two poems by Brautigan: "Mouths That Kissed in the Hot Ashes of Pompeii" (source credited as "in the San Francisco Express Times"; 1(27) July 24, 1968: 7) and "All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace" (source credited as "in the digger papers").

Also included work by Jack Kerouac and David Sinclair and news about the "long-awaited Youth International Party (YIPPIE) Festival of Life" which occurred 25-30 August 1968, simultaneously with the YIPPIE festival Democratic National Convention, both in Chicago, Illinois.

San Francisco Express Times, vol. 1, no. 32, August 28, 1968
Published weekly from 24 January 1968 (vol. 1, no. 1) to 24 December 1968 (vol. 1, no. 49) as San Francisco Express Times. Continued after as Good Times. Published at 15 Lafayette Street, San Francisco by the Trystero Company. Printed by Waller Press.

Reprints eight poems by Brautigan: "General Custer Versus the Titanic", "The Shenevertakesherwatchoff Poem", "Xerox Candy Bar", "Horse Child Breakfast", "Crab Cigar", "I Live in the Twentieth Century", "Alas, Measured Perfectly" and "The Way She Looks at It".

San Francisco Express Times, vol. 1, no. 49, December 24, 1968, pp. 8-9.
Published weekly from 24 January 1968 (vol. 1, no. 1) to 24 December 1968 (vol. 1, no. 49) as San Francisco Express Times. Continued after as Good Times. Published at 15 Lafayette Street, San Francisco by the Trystero Company. Printed by Waller Press.

Reprints eleven poems by Brautigan: "The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster," "The Day they Busted the Grateful Dead," "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace," "Discovery," "At the California Institute of Technology," "Boo, Forever," "The Sidney Greenstreet Blues," "The Flowerburgers Part 4," "A Baseball Game Part 7," "December 24," and "The Garlic Meat Lady from ."

The Overland Journey of Joseph Francl: The First Bohemian to Cross the Plains to the California Gold Fields. William P. Wreden, [16 Dec.] 1968.
Limited edition of 540 copies of which 500 were offered for sale.
55 pages; 7.25" x 10" Bound in decorative paper boards with a paper spine label; plain white wrapper
Covers and interior pages illustrated with stylized line drawings by Berkeley, California, film-maker and artist, Patricia Oberhaus.
Typographic design by Jack Werner Stauffacher of Greenwood Press, San Francisco
Binding by Schuberth Bookbindery
Illustrated prospectus laid in

First publication of Brautigan's essay forming the introduction to this book, "The Overland Journey of Joseph Francl and the Eternal Sleep of His Wife Antonia in Crete, Nebraska."

A reprinting of Francl's diary kept during his travels from Wisconsin to California. First published serially in 1928. Brautigan's essay serves as the introduction, and was written on the invitation of Wreden, a San Francisco rare books and manuscripts dealer. The essay was later included in The Tokyo-Montana Express. READ this essay.

The publication announcement, sent out by William P. Wreden, included an illustration of Joseph Francl by Oberhaus and noted the introduction by Richard Brautigan. "Richard Brautigan is a novelist-poet living in San Francisco. His novels include A Confederate General from Big Sur and Trout Fishing in America. In the person of Joseph, Francl, freely, gently, in a new manner, he inquires after the phenomena of the overland pioneer." A separate invitation to a publication party also mentioned Brautigan.

The Paris Review, no. 45, Winter 1968, p. 140.
The Paris Review, published in New York, City 1953-1974 was founded by novelist Peter Matthiessen and Harold Hume and was one of the great literary magazines of the latter half of the twentieth century.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "Gee, You're So Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain" (double titled as "San Francisco Weather Report") as well as poetry by Jim Carroll (of the rock group Traffic), Tom Clark, Ron Padgett, Anne Waldman, Frank O'Hara, Jim Brodey, and others. Also included was an interview with John Updike, a journal by Edward Hoagland titled "Notes from the Century Before," fiction by Joy Williams, Austin Wright, Tom Veitch, and others.

The San Francisco Public Library: A Publishing House, 5 Dec. 1968, p 2.
Three wet process legal-size photocopy pages (8.5" x 14"); stapled; self-produced by Victor Moscoso, Jack Thibeau, and Brautigan.

The first page features Thibeau's contibution, a photocopy of his stomach and chest with decorative cut out stars. Thibeau's "signature" appears top center of the page, formed by the cut out typed phrase "Jack Thibeau" crossed by the cut out typed word "xeroxed."

In the center of the page, formed from typed and cut pieces of paper, appear the publication credits, prepared by Brautigan.
"The San Francisco Public Library:
A Publishing House

"This magazine was created and Xeroxed at the Main Library in the Civic Center using their ten cent Xerox machine on December 5, 1968 by: Victor Moscoso, Jack Thibeau, Richard Brautigan."

The first publication of Brautigan's poem "Mrs. Myrtle Tate, Movie Projectionist" appears on the second page, typed on white paper, cut out, and centered over a newspaper page featuring movie advertising.

Brautigan's handwritten signature appears in the upper left corner of the sheet, over the advertisement for the Orpheum Cinerama.

The entire event was planned and directed by Brautigan, who was intrigued with the idea of immediate publishing as a new form of public performance. Brautigan invited Thibeau and Moscoso to participate. Each was encouraged to produce a page, designed however they wished. Brautigan encouraged them to be creative. As part of his planning, Brautigan typed "This is one of seven numbered and signed copies" on seven separate small sheets of paper. Below each statement he typed a number. These statements were printed on seven copies of his page, each of which he signed. Thibeau and Moscoso signed copies of their pages as well. Brautigan compiled the three pages into little books, stapling each together. Allegedly, no more than twenty little books were made.

The event was photograhed by Edmund Shea, who produced three contact sheets of 35mm thumbnails of his photographs, thirty-six total. His photographs included the authors, other participants and onlookers, the ten cent copy machine, the Siamese cat Xenobia (belonging to Valerie Estes who accompanied Brautigan to the library and is seen in several of the photographs; Estes was given Xenobia as a Christmas present in 1967 by ex-husband Bob Morrill; Estes recounts a story involving Brautigan, cats, Lauren Sears, and Pat Ferraro), and the signing of copies.

The University of Virginia Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library website maintains a multimedia presentation of "Sixties Memorabilia" including this poster and Brautigan's "San Francisco Public Library: A Publishing House."

Rolling Stone, no. 24, 21 December 1968, p. 24.

First publication of three Brautigan stories: "Crazy Old Women Are Riding the Buses of America Today," "Fame in California," "A Need for Gardens."

The title of "Fame in Califorina" was changed to "Fame in California/1964" and when it was collected in Revenge of the Lawn.

Evergreen Review, vol. 61, December 1968, pp 24-26.

First publication of the Brautigan story "What Are You Going to Do with 390 Photographs of Christmas Trees."

Included a montage of nine photographs of discarded Christmas trees by Erik Weber, who is the photographer friend Brautigan refers to in the story. Brautigan called Weber the first week in January 1964, and enlisted his help in photographing discarded Christmas trees. The project, thought Brautigan, would show the shallowness of Christmas, and how easily it was discarded once passed. Brautigan originally intended a small, illustrated book, but never followed through. Instead, he wrote this story, recounting his project with Weber and an anonymous friend. In the original story, everyone is referred to by their proper name, except the anonymous friend. When he included this story in The Tokyo-Montana Express, Brautigan, who had ended his friendship with Weber, changed his name from "Erik" to "Bob."

Evergreen Review, published in New York, New York, 1957-1973, was edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriam Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

Rolling Stone, no. 25, 4 January 1969, p. 30.
First publication of two Brautigan stories: "The Ghost Children of Tacoma" and "Lint."

Rolling Stone, no. 26, 1 February 1969, p. 26.

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Short History of Oregon."

Rolling Stone, no. 27, 15 February 1969, 10.
This issue focused on Groupies, females (generally) who followed and attempted to attract the attentions of rock musicians.

First publication of Brautigan's story "I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone."

The American Literary Anthology. Second Annual Collection. Edited by George Plimpton and Peter Ardery. Random House, 1969, p. 56.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "It's Raining in Love" but omitted the last 13 lines. Thus, the full poem apeared in the 1970 anthogy in this series.

Big Venus. Edited by Nick Kimberly. Big Venus, 1969, p. 1.

Reprints the Brautigan poem, "Feel Free to Marry Emily Dickinson."

Only two issues of this poetry magazine were issued. Also featured work by Clayton Eshelman, Claude Pelieu, Goerge Dowden, and others. Published in London, 102 Southhampton Row.

A First Reader of Contemporary American Poetry. Edited by Patrick Gleason. Merrill, 1969, pp. 23-26

Reprints eight poems by Brautigan: "In a Cafe," "The Wheel," "The Sidney Greenstreet Blues," "The Fever Monument," "Horse Race," "Our Beautiful West Coast Thing," "The Pomegranate Circus," and "General Custer Versus the Titanic."

Journal for the Protection of All Beings, no. 3, 1969, n. pg.
Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, California. 6" x 10.25."

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Shellfish."

Background
Journal for the Protection of All Beings is generally considered one of the first radical ecology magazines. Published four issues, 1961-1978. Each issue's title varied and often depended on the focus of the content.

This issue was subtitled "Green Flag: People's Park Poetry" and included protest prose and poetry by University of California-Berkeley students focusing on the disruption of student gardening in a vacant lot called "People's Park." It was put together and sold in support of the Bail Defense Fund for the hundreds arrested following the protest over the closure of the park. Cover illustration by Eugene Hawkins Legend. Other illustrations by John Corrie. Brautigan's poem "Shellfish" appeared in the "To Every Animal" section but did not appear in the table of contents.

The journal itself was not a poetry magazine, "but it provided a forum for local poets to express their concern about their society" (Eloyde Tovey 43). The journal was started by Michael McClure and David Meltzer. It began production in San Francisco in 1961 under the City Lights imprint. The first issue of this magazine was edited by McClure, David Meltzer, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. It was conceived as a political magazine with a populist dialogue that hopefully would appeal to a broad audience.

Beatitude. no. 20, Mar. 1969.
Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, California.

Reprints four Brautigan poems: "The Harbor," "The Double-Bed Gallows," "Adrenalin Mother"," and "Death is a Beautiful Parked Car Only."

Rolling Stone, no. 28, 1 March 1969, p. 30.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Holiday in Germany."

Rolling Stone, no. 29, 15 March 1969, p. 25.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Forgiven."

Rolling Stone, no. 30, 5 April 1969, p. 28.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Elmira."

Rolling Stone, no. 31, 19 April 1969, p. 8.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The View from the Dog Tower."

The Free You, vol. 3, no. 6, May 1969, p. 45.
Published in Menlo Park, California, by Midpeninsula Free University. Edited by Fred Nelson, Jon Buckley, Ed McClanahan, and others.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "All Girls Should Have a Poem."

Midpeninsula Free University of Palo Alto, California, (MFU), was an experiment in alternative education that began in 1965 as a Marxist-oriented challenge to the nearby Stanford University. Courses included yoga, mediation, and other experiential offerings. For a $US10.00 membership fee, one could sign up for any course offered by MFU, or teach any course he or she wished. The MFU faculty included Black Panthers, hippies, Stanford professors, and auto mechanics. Notable attendees were Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who went on to found Apple Computer. Peak membership was claimed to be more than a thousand. In addition to the school, MFU operated a restaurant, a head shop, and a free store.

MFU course offerings were detailed in a semi-annnual catalog called The Free You between 1968 and 1971. Starting as an 8.5" x 11" mimeographed house organ, the catalog grew to a full-color, fifty-page magazine distributed widely outside the university. Illustrations were often included. In fact, artist M. C. Escher wrote, 20 April 1969, "The Hippies of San Francisco continue to print my work illegaly. . . . I was sent a forty-eight-page programme or catalogue of the so-called "Midpeninsula Free University," Menlo Park, California. It included three reproductions of my prints alternating with photographs of seductive naked girls."

The editors of The Free You solicited writings from friends. Ed McClanahan knew Brautigan and may have asked him to contribute something to the catalog. Brautigan's poem appeared in a swirling color psychedelic illustration style popular at the time. The artist was attributed simply as Marghee [sic].

Rolling Stone, vol. 32, 3 May 1969, p. 29.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Not The Way," later collected in Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt as "Love's Not the Way to Treat a Friend."

Rolling Stone, no. 33, 17 May 1969, p. 12.

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Complete Movie of Germany and Japan." Title changed to "A Complete History of Germany and Japan" when it was collected in Revenge of the Lawn.

Rolling Stone, no. 34, 31 May 1969, p. 37.

Reprints Brautigan's story "A Long Time Ago People Decided to Live in America."

Heliotrope, Summer 1969, n. pg.
Published in San Francisco, CA.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Critical Can Opener."

Heliotrope was a learning environment open to anyone and offered a wide range of courses: massage, cinema, celebration of dusk, for example. This publication (6" x 9 1/4" printed on heavy, yellow paper) was the summer catalog.

Rolling Stone, no. 36, 28 June 1969, p. 38.

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Short Story about Contemporary Life in California."

Rolling Stone, no. 37, 12 July 1969, p. 37.

Reprints Brautigan's story "A Short History of Religion in California."

Rolling Stone, no. 39, 9 August 1969, p. 37.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Memory of a Girl."

Rolling Stone, no. 41, 6 September 1969, p. 30.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Women When They Put Their Clothes On in the Morning."

Rolling Stone, no. 42, 20 September 1969, p 25.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Pale Marble Movie."

Vogue, vol. 154, no. 6, 1 October 1969, p. 126.
Written while living with Janice Meissner at 2830 California Street, San Francisco.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Weather in San Francisco."

Rolling Stone, no. 48, 13 December 1969, p. 40.
First publication of two Brautigan stories: "Ernest Hemingway's Typist" and "A High Building in Singapore."

Poetry, vol. cvx, no. 1, Oct. 1969, p. 30.
Published by October House, Inc., New York, NY

Fisrt publication of Brautigan's poem "Wood." This was his only appearance in this journal, founded by Harriet Monroe with help from Ezra Pound in 1912.

The American Literary Anthology. Third Annual Collection. Edited by George Plimpton and Peter Ardery. Viking, 1970, pp. 384-385.
Corrected version

Reprints Brautigan's poem "It's Raining in Love" The 1969 anthology in this series omitted the last 13 lines of this poem, so it was included in full here.

Vogue, vol. 155, no. 1, 1 January 1970, p. 179.

First publication of "The Auction," Brautigan's story about his impoverished childhood in the Pacific Northwest

Jeopardy, no. 6, March 1970, p. 90.
Published in Bellinghman, Washington, by the Associated Student Body of Western Washington State College.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Partners," as well as work by Keith Abbott, Greg Kuzma, Anselm Hollo, Noritoshi Tachibana (translated by Yozo Shibuya and Ron Bayes), Stephen Dunn, Richard Eberhart, James Den Boer, Charles Bukowski, Joyce Odam, William Stafford, Louis Ginsberg, Ann Mennebroker, John Stevens Wade, Stanley Cooperman, Stanley Plumley, Collete Inez, Terry Stokes, and Grace Butler.

Evergreen Review, no. 76, March 1970, p. 51.
Published in New York, New York, 1957-1973. Edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriman Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

First publication of the Brautigan story "The Betrayed Kingdom."

Link, Terry. "Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork." Rolling Stone, no. 60, 11 June 1970, p. 26.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Your Love."

Background
Brautigan read this poem at a poetry reading at the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco, 7 May 1970. Link reviewed the reading. LEARN more.

Rolling Stone, no. 61, 25 June 1970, p. 11.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Atlantisburg."

"Three Stories by Richard Brautigan." Mademoiselle, vol. 71, no. 3, July 1970, pp. 104-105.

First publication of three Brautigan stories: "1692 Cotton Mather Newsreel," "Sand Castles," and "Pacific Radio Fire."

Rolling Stone, no. 63, 23 July 1970, p. 15.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Greyhound Tragedy."

"The Library." The Dutton Review, no. 1, 1970, pp. 167-182.
Published in New York, New York. Edited by Hal Scharlatt, Robert Brown, and Jerome Charyn.

Featured four chapters from Brautigan's upcoming book The Abortion: "The Library," "The Automobile Accident," "The 23," and "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come out Tonight?"
These chapters comprised Book 1, titled "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come out Tonight?", of the novel.

This issue also featured works by William Gaddis, Raymond Mungo, C. P. Cavafy, Norma Meacock, Barton Midwood, Rudolph Wurlitzer, Anthony Kerrigan, John Hawkes, Jack Newfield, Stanley Elkin, LeRoi Jones, and Jorge Luis Borges.

Vogue, vol. 156, no. 2, 1 August 1970, p. 98.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Winter Rug,".

Brautigan sent this story, based on an anecdote he heard from friend Bill Brown, to Jory Sherman at Broadside, a men's magazine published in North Hollywood, California, who rejected it saying, "As it stands, there is no way in hell that I can buy this. What you have here is more of a slice of life with very little point as it turns out." Vogue felt differently.

Kaleidescope-Madison, vol. 2, no. 19, 17 Sep. 1970, p. 7.
Published biweekly; Box 5457, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53701.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "Restaurant" under the name "Fragile, Fading 37/A Poem."

Kaleidoscope-Milwaukee, vol. 3, no. 9, 12 October 1970, pp. 1, 10.
Published biweekly Box 5457, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53701.

First publication of the Brautigan story "Talk Show."

Rolling Stone, no. 67, 15 October 1970, p. 22.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Getting to Know Each Other."

Esquire, no. 74, October 1970, pp. 152-153.

First publication of "The Lost Chapters of Trout Fishing in America": 'Rembrandt Creek' and 'Carthage Sink' along with a full-page color illustration of Brautigan by Richard Weigand.

Evergreen Review, no. 84, November 1970, p. 41.
Published in New York, New York, 1957-1973. Edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriam Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

First publication of the Brautigan story "Complicated Banking Problems."

"Three Poems." London Magazine, Nov. 1970, p. 65.

Reprints three poems by Brautigan: "The Wheel," "Horse Race," and "Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4." Also included work by Robert Lowell, Ronald Hayman, Minos Argyakis, Christine Broke-Rose, G. S. Sharat Chandra, William Sanson, Nirad Chaudhuri, Geoffrey Grigson, William Feaver, John Elsom, and Tony Harrison.

"Little Memoirs: Three Tales by Richard Brautigan." Playboy, vol. 17, no. 12, December 1970, pp. 164-165.

First publication of three Brautigan stories: "Corporal," "The Literary Life in California/1964," and "Halloween in Denver."

"High Schools Promote: Irresponsibility, Distortion, Schizophrenia, Racism, Chauvinism, Hate, Elitism, Linear Thought, Subordination, Militarism, Nationalism, Oligarchies, Loneliness, and other character disorders." Chicago: Chicago Area Draft Resisters, 197[?]: back panel.
Single sheet, folded. A promotional phamplet printed and distributed by the Chicago Area Draft Resistors (CADRE), 519 W. North Ave., Chicago, Illinois, 60610, (312) 664-6895. Readers were encouraged to "call or write" CADRE for "more information about high schools and how to deal with them."

Reprints Brautigan's poem "The Memoirs of Jesse James" on the back panel.

The World, no. 21, Jan. 1971, n. pg.
Published in New York, New York. Edited by Anne Waldman. Magazine of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery.
8.5" x 14" mimeographed sheets.

First publication of four poems by Brautigan: "Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork," "Two Guys Get Out of a Car," "Punitive Ghosts Like Steam Driven Tennis Courts," and "It's Time To Train Yourself."

Earth, vol. 2, no. 1, Jan. 1971.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Homage to Rudi Gernreich/1965".
A story about the Pet Cemetary in San Francisco's The Presidio.
Featured a photograph taken in November 1965 by Erik Weber of Brautigan looking over the pet tombstones there.

The magazine (8" x 11.5" with cover artwork by Bob Zoell) featured four pages of artwork by Robert Crumb titled "Mr. Natural's 719th Meditation" and full color photographs of musician Shuggie Otis by San Francisco photographer Lisa Law.

A quote by California designer Rudi Gernreich acts as a prologue to the story. "The look in clothes expresses an anti-attitude, the result of being bored . . . And so, if you're bored, you go for the outrageous gesture. Everything else seems to have lost any meaning."

Vogue, vol. 157, no. 3, 1 February 1971, p. 192.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Old Bus."

Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: A Collection of Over 125 Poems. Edited by Frances Monson McCullough. Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, 1971, pp. 27, 130, 142.

Reprints three Brautigan poems: "To England," "The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster," and "The Day They Busted the Grateful Dead."

The biographical note for Brautigan reads, "Richard Brautigan published several small books of poetry in limited editions and then collected them in one volume, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, published first by Four Seasons Foundation and them by Delacorte. He has also published three novels and a book of new poems, Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt. Brautigan is 36 and has lived in San Francisco for many years."

Another World: A Second Anthology of Works from the St. Marks Poetry Project. Edited by Anne Waldman. Bobbs-Merrill, 1971, p. 345.

Reprints four Brautigan poems: " Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork," It's Time To Train Yourself," Two Guys Get Out of a Car," and Punitive Ghosts Like Steam-Driven Tennis Courts."

Also work by Tom Clark, Johyn Weiners, and Joanne Kyger.

"A Taste of the Taste of Brautigan." California Living, 16 May 1971, pp. 7-10.
The magazine of the San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle.

Introduction reads, "Richard Brautigan, an Aquarian born in Tacoma, Washington, January 30, 1935, has grown from an unknown poet of the Haight Ashbury during the days of the Flower Children, to one of the country's leading writers—in less than ten years. Among his works, widely read and discussed on college campuses—as well as in the general mainstream—are (novels) Trout Fishing in America, A Confederate General from Big Sur and (poetry) The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster and Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt."

First punblication of seven Brautigan poems: "They Are Really Having Fun", "We Meet. We Try. Nothing Happens, But", "Home Again Home Again Like a Turtle To His Balcony", "You Will Have Unreal Recollections of Me", "Finding Is Losing Something Else", "Impasse", and "Homage to Charles Atlas". Photographs, including one of Brautigan, by Edmund Shea.

Clear Creek, no. 3, June 1971, p. 30.

First publication of the Brautigan poem "Are You the Lamb of Your Own Forgiving?"

Vogue, vol. 158, no. 1, July 1971, pp. 96-97.

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Homage to the San Francisco YMCA." When this story was incorporated into Revenge of the Lawn, it was retitled as "Homage to the San Francisco YMCA."

Harper's Magazine, vol. 243, no. 1457, October 1971, p. 58.

First publication of the Brautigan poem "Crow Maiden."

International Times, no. 119, 16-30 December 1971, p. 16.
London underground magazine started by Barry Miles.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Halloween in Denver." Featured an illustration by "Yellow Pig." Cover shows Fat Freddy as Father Christmas. Contents include a pullout paranoia board game, a full-page photograph of Jim Morrison, and a review of a Yoko Ono film.

The San Francisco Poets. Edited by David Meltzer. Ballantine Books, 1971, pp. 293-97, 304-305.

First publication of Brautigan's essay "Old Lady." Also reprints six poems by Brautigan from Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt: "Jules Verne Zucchini," "Propelled by Portals Whose Only Shame," "Donner Party," "In Her Sweetness Where She Folds My Wounds," "The Elbow of a Dead Duck," "As the Bruises Fade, the Lightning Aches" and a bibliographical checklist prepared by Brautigan. One of several reference books focusing on Brautigan.

Mark In Time: Portraits & Poetry / San Francisco. Edited by Nick Harvey. Glide Publications, 1971, pp. 170-171, 173-174.
188 pages; Hardcover, with dustjacket; 9.5" x 9.5"
An overview of the San Francisco poetry scene in the early 1970s.

First publication of two poems by Brautigan: "On Pure Sudden Days Like Innocence" and "Curiously Young Like a Freshly-Dug Grave."

Also featured poets Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Wieners, George Oppen, Joanne Kyger, Pete Winslow, Kenneth Rexroth, Lew Welch, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ishmael Reed, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, William Everson, Gary Snyder, Brautigan, and others. Each poet given a double-page spread with a photograph by Christa Fleishmann and biographical information.

Autobiographical note reads, "Richard Brautigan (191) was born January 30, 1935, in the Pacific Northwest. He has lived in San Francisco for many years. He is the author of Trout Fishing in America (novel); A Confederate General from Big Sur (novel); In Watermelon Sugar (novel); The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster (poetry); Please Plant This Book (poetry); All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (poetry); Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt (poetry); and The Abortion: An Historical Romance of 1966 (novel) and Revenge of the Lawn (short stories), both due in 1971."

Just What The Country Needs, Another Poetry Anthology. Edited by James McMichael and Dennis Saleh. Wadsworth, 1971, pp. xii, 22-26, 185.
6.5" x 9.5", 190 pages
A poetry anthology collecting 124 poems by 30 poets, including Brautigan. Includes biographical notes for each contributor and an introduction by X. J. Kennedy, who says, "Anyone who cares for poetry ought to encounter much to delight and startle him here. Among such gratifications for me was . . . Richard Brautigan, abruptly popular, whose best work (see "The Winos on Potrero Hill") moves with a beautiful transparency" (xii).

Reprints five poems by Brautigan: "The Winos on Potrero Hill," "The Quail," "The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster," "Discovery," and "Adrenalin Mother," all from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster.

The biographical note for Brautigan reads, "Richard Brautigan published several small books of poetry in limited editions and then collected them in one volume, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, published first by Four Seasons Foundation and them by Delacorte. He has also published three novels and a book of new poems, Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt. Brautigan is 36 and has lived in San Francisco for many years."

Solotaroff, Theodore, editor. New American Review, Number 12, Simon and Schuster, 1971, pp. 123-126.

The inspiration for this story came in a telephone call to Virginia Alder, Brautigan's first wife, in the fall of 1960 regarding the death of her father, Grover Cleveland Alder, in Los Angeles, California. Virginia was not in the apartment and Brautigan took the call. When she returned, Brautigan told her of her father's death that afternoon. Nearly ten years later, in the last weeks of 1969, Brautigan wrote of that afternoon in 1960, and chronicled the life of his father in law in thirty-three short, numbered passages.

Esquire, Vol. LXXVIII, No. 3, September 1972, p. 50.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Autobiography (Polish It Like a Piece of Silver)."

The reference to "Byrds" in this poem is a small town in central Texas near Brownwood.
The reference to "Judy" is Judy Gordon. She and her husband, Roxy, were friends of Brautigan and he visited them in Austin, Texas, in August 1970. Rommel Drives On Deep Into Egypt, a collection of poetry, was dedicated to Roxy and Judy Gordon.

The Ways of the Poem. Edited by Josephine Miles. Prentice Hall, 1972, pp. 376-377.

Reprints Brautigan's poems "The Chinese Checkers Players" and "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace."

Blue Suede Shoes, .424, 1973. p. n. pg.
Published at 1146 Sutter, Berkeley, California. Edited by Keith Abbott.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets. Several issues, variously numbered. See "Background" below.

First publication of three Brautigan poems: "Montana Inventory," "Oak," and "Ben." Brautigan listed as a member of the "Board of Editors," along with John Ashbery, Andrei Codrescu, "Our Gal Flo," and Robert Creeley. Also featured work by Joyce Holland, Michael Sowl, Guillaume Appollinaire, Keith Abbott, Carlos Castaneda, Jr., Richard Snyder, Barry Alpert, Pat[rick] Nolan, and a Opal Nations-Keith Abbott collaboration.

Background
Volume 1 Numbers 1-15 (1968?- 1972?) were edited by Keith Abbott and Steve Carey. Numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 published at 1007 Lake Whatcom Blvd., Bellingham, Washington 98225.
Number 5, published as a book titled , Pat Nolan in a Buick Twenty Poems by Bob Hope was devoted to poems by Pat[rick] Nolan. Published (150 copies) at 724 Lottie Street, Monterey, California 93940. Twenty five copies were signed with a poem by the author.
Number 6 (1968) published in Monterey, California.
Number 7, published as a book titled Fleur-De-Lis, was devoted to poems by Steve Carey. Published (150 copies) in Monterey, California. Twenty copies were signed with various embellishments added by the author.
Number 8 (1971), published as a book titled Thick and Thin, was devoted to prose and poetry by Keith Abbott. Published (1,000 copies) in Monterey, California. Fifty copies were signed with a poem by the author.
Number 9, titled "The American Indian Issue," was published in Monterey, California.
Number 10, published as a book titled 2X, was devoted to prose by Keith Abbott and Michael Sowl. Published (175 copies) in Monterey, California.
Number 11, published (200 copies) by Strange Faeces Press, 42a, Pembridge Road, Notting Hill Gate, London W11, England. Edited by Keith Abbott.
Number 12 (1972), published as a book titled The Best Deal I Ever Made, was devoted to prose by Keith Abbott. Published in Monterey, California.
Number 13, called the "To hell and back" issue, published in Monterey, California. Edited by Keith Abbott and Harry Heilman.
Number 14 (1972), published as a book titled Hero Pills, was devoted to 1968-1969 stories by Keith Abbott. Published in Monterey, California.
Number 15 was edited by "Keith Abbott & Rhubarb." Published in Monterey, California.
Each issue contained prose and poetry work by modern American and British writers, translations of French and Spanish writers, parodies of American poetry, found poems, and editorials. Numbers 16-18 were to be Abbott's novel Gush, A Novel Starring the Gush Family about The Unemployment Problems in California.

The Decimal Series began after Volume 1, Number 15 with Number .5 ("The Organized Religion Issue," published in Berkeley, California) and progressed backwards: Number .314159265 ("The Pi Issue," published in Berkeley, California), Number .424 (published in Berkeley, California, 1973?), Number .016 (Face, devoted to poetry by Michael-Sean Lazaaarchuk, published in Berkeley, California), Number .406 (Chocolate Winter?, devoted to poetry by Michael Sowl, published in Berkeley, California, 1974?), Number .017 (published in Berkeley, California), and Number .386 (Brain 10, devoted to poetry "by the students in Miss Gatenby's 9th grade classes in Room 10 at Emeryville High." Published at 1020 Cornell, Albany, California 94706 in 1976).

"2 New Stories by Richard Brautigan." The New Ingenue, May 1973, pp. 92-93.
Published by Ingenue Communciations, New York, New York.

First publication of two stories by Brautigan: "A Feeling of Helplessness" and "The Last of my Armstrong Creek Mosquito Bites." The table of contents reads: "A FEELING OF HELPLESSNESS/THE LAST OF MY ARMSTRONG MOSQUITO BITES
Richard Brautigan gives us two new short stories."

Both stories printed on page 92. a photograph by Erik Weber of Brautigan fishing Armstrong Creek, Montana, October 1972, was used as a background across the two pages.

One Lord, One Faith, One Cornbread. Eds. Fred Nelson and Ed McClanahan. Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1973.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "All Girls Should Have a Poem."

A collected volume of writings from The Free You. Includes work by Robert Stone, Ken Kesey, L. J. Davis, Thom Gunn, Wendell Berry, Judith Rascoe, Speer Morgan, Vic Lovell, Brautigan, and others. The notes on contributors reads: "Richard Brautigan is that Richard Brautigan."

California Living, 18 Nov. 1973, p. 16.
The magazine of the San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "For Fear You Will Be Alone." Illustrated with photograph by Edmund Shea.

Shake the Kaleidoscope: A New Anthology of Modern Poetry. Edited by Milton Klonsky. Simon & Schuster, 1973

Reprints six poems by Brautigan: "To England," "November 3." "A Mid-February Sky Dance," "Mating Saliva." "Romeo and Juliet," "As the Bruises Fade, the Lightning Aches."

"Some Montana Poems/1973." City Lights Anthology. Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. City Lights Books, 1974, p. 95.

First publication of three Brautigan poems "Night" (one of two Brautigan poems with this title), "Dive Bombing the Lower Emotions" and "Nine Crows: Two Out of Sequence."

A larger format version of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Journal, where, in the first issue, Brautigan published three chapte rs from his then forthcoming novel Trout Fishing in America. Brautigan was part of a group of writers included who had been published by or were associated with City Lights or San Francisco: Jack Micheline, Jerry Kamstra, Charles Bukowski, Gail Chiarello, and Robert Creeley. Also included was poetry by Harold Norse; jailed Iranian poet Reza Baraheni; Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro; Isabelle Eberhardt, a young European who lived among the Muslims in North Africa; Jean Genet; a new translation of Arthur Rimbaud's A Season in Hell, writing by Black Power advocate Huey Newton, and Allen Ginsberg's record of his meeting with Ezra Pound (Barry Silesky 185-186).

Mademoiselle, vol. 80., no. 1, Nov. 1974, pp. 192-193.

First publilcation of Brautigan's story "An Eye for Good Produce" and Brautigan's poem "Good Luck, Captain Martin."

The Beatles' Illustrated Lyrics. Dell, 1975.
208 pages
First publication of the Brautigan's introduction, "The Silence of Flooded Houses." to this collection of lyrics and over 100 photographs. Keith Abbott said this essay was a good example of Brautigan's inability to write journalism. For this assignment, like others, Abbot said Brautigan "spun out short, metaphorical fantasies" more dependent on his imagination, fueled by his friends and activities, for ideas than his ability to report on some event (Keith Abbott 88).

The CoEvolution Quarterly, no. 8, Winter 1975, p. 49.
Published by Point in Sausalito, California.
First publication of six Brautigan poems: "We Are In A Kitchen," "January 4 3," "A Penny Smooth As A Star," "Fuck Me Like Fried Potatoes," "Seconds," "Autobiography (When the Moon Shines Like a Dead Garage)." All collected in "Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork." Also featured work by Robert Creeley, Paul Krassner, Gurney Norman, and Anne Waldman.

Esquire, Vol LXXXIII, no. 3, March 1975, pp. 70, 134.

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Gun for Big Fish".

TriQuarterly, vol. 35, Winter 1976, p. 89.
Published in Evanston, Illinois.
A two-volume set.

First publication of Brautigan's story, "Football," appears in Volume 1.

The CoEvolution Quarterly [Sausalito, California], no. 9, Spring Mar. 20, 1976, p. 23.

First publication of Brautigan's essay "Owls" along with others commenting on Gerard O'Neill's idea of Space Colonies. Brautigan spoke against space colonization and for ecology.

This issue of The CoEvolution Quarterly also included commentary by Wendell Berry, Ken Kesey, Buckminister Fuller, Astronaut Russell Schweickart, John Todd, Joni Mitchell, and California Governor Jerry Brown.

Poems Here and Now. Edited by David Kherdian. Greenwillow Books, 1976

Reprints two poems by Brautigan: "The Chinese Checker Players" and "The Horse That Had A Flat Tire."

Transatlantic Review, vol. 58, no. 59, Feb. 1977, p. 117.
Published in London, England and New York, New York. Edited by J. F. McCrindle.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Bed Salesman."

["Impasse and Other Poems."] San Francisco, Aug. 1977, pp. 34-35.

Reprints six poems by Brautigan: "Autobiography (Goodbye, Ultra Violet)," "We Meet. We Try. Nothing Happens, But," "Impasse," "On Pure Sudden Days Like Innocence," "We Were the Eleven O'Clock News," and "Nobody Knows What the Experience Is Worth."

Outside , Sep. 1977, p. 7.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Dogs on the Roof."

Quest/77, vol. 1, no. 5, Nov./Dec. 1977, p. 108.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "On the Elevator Going Down."

Space Colonies, 1977.
Whole Earth Catalog and Penguin Books; ISBN 0140048057

Reprints Brautigan's essay "Owls."

Dugdale, Anthony. "Romantic Renegades." Architectural Design, vol. 48, no. 7, 1978

Reprints Brautigan's poem "Let's Voyage into the New American House."

"Four Stories for Aki and Other Treats." California Living, 14 Jan. 1979, pp. 5-7.
The magazine of the San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle. Described as "a compendium of short stories."

First publication of seven Brautigan stories: "The Short Story", "Walking Toward December". "The Purpose," "Meat," "The Great Golden Telescope," "Harmonica High"," and "Her Last Known Boyfriend"." The last of these was retitled "Her Last Known Boyfriend a Canadian Airman" in The Tokyo-Montana Express.

The CoEvolution Quarterly, no. 21, Spring (March 21) 1979, p. 77.
Published by Point, Sausalito, California.
First publication of Brautigan's story "Farewell to the First Grade and Hello to the National Enquirer" appeared in a section titled "Used Magazines" where "63 strange people tell what they read." Included in the list of "strange people" were Wendell Berry, William S. Burroughs, Robert Crumb, and Allen Ginsberg. Of note: William S. Burroughs read Soldier of Fortune.

Redbook: The Magazine For Young Women, vol. 153, No. 4, August 1979, The Redbook Publishing Co., 1979, New York

Reprints Brautigan's story "The Great Golden Telescope." Also includes Ray Bradbury's story "A Summer Day" (not to be confused with his famous "All Summer in a Day").

Postcard Poems. Edited by Paul B. Janeczko. Bradbury Press, 1979

Reprints Brautigan's poem "In a Cafe."

San Francisco Stories 1979
Paperback, with printed wrappers; 59 pages.
Edited by George Matchette, Robert Monson, and Charles Rubin.
Published in San Francisco, California. First issue of a biannual magazine of "Short Fiction by Bay Area Writers."

First publication of three stories by Brautigan: "Skylab at the Graves of Abbott and Costello," "Al's Rose Harbor," and "Waking Up Again." Also featured original works by Michael Rubin, Annette Dozier, Yuri Kageyama, Barry Gifford, Ray Scippa, and Jane Nudelman.

New Orleans Review, vol. 7, no. 1, 1980, p. 24.
Published by Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

First publication of Brautigan's story "In Pursuit of the Impossible Dream."

"Three by Richard Brautigan." Corona, no. 2, 1981, pp. 12-14.
First publication of three Brautigan stories: "The Last of What's Left", "Closets", and "The Grasshopper's Mirror".

Background
Michael Sexson, editor of Corona notes,
I think we called them stories because Richard said so. They seem tiny short stories, but it would not be wrong to call them poems either. Notice that we evaded the issue in the text by calling it "Three by Richard Brautigan."
Michael Sexson. Email to John F. Barber, 18 February 2002.

"A Happy but Footsore Writer Celebrates His Driver's Block": People Weekly, 8 June 1981
Brautigan is credited as the author of this article, but it actually stems from interviews by Cheryl McCall.

The first publication of this long piece by Brautigan on why he hates cars. Inludes three photographs of Brautigan by Roger Ressmeyer, taken Saturday, 21 March 1981 in San Francisco.

"Yoru ni nagareru kawa." Asahi Shinbun, [Tokyo, Japan], Evening Edition, 6 June 1983, p. 5.
Translated by Shuntaro Tanikawa.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Night Flowing River." in Japanese.

"Richard Brautigan: Tokyo and Montana." Friends of the Washington Review of the Arts, vol. 9, no. 5, Feb./Mar. 1984, p. 9.

First publication in English of Brautigan's poem "Night Flowing River" and first publication of Brautigan's story "The Lost Tree", Includes a photograph of Brautigan by Toby Thompson.

Shannon, L. R. "The Promise, the Reality and the Hope." New York Times, 8 December 1987, p. 27.
Discusses the possibilities of the personal computer from the perspective of the late 1970s saying, "it was a poetic vision, particularly as expressed by Richard Brautigan. . . ."

Reprints Brautigan's poem "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace."

Abbott, Keith. Downstream from Trout Fishing in America. Capra Press, 1989, p. 137.

First publication of Brautigan's poems "Somehow We Live and Die Again," "Reflection," and "Death Growth."

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First publication of Brautigan's poem "Rendezvous."

a visit from jake, X-Ray, no. 6, Winter 1996.

This excerpt from the upcoming Brautigan novel I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye was originally laid into X-Ray no. 6. This chapbook was reprinted separately later in the same year in an limited edition of 300 numbered and 26 lettered copies. First publication of a Brautigan chapbook entitled "A Visit From Jake", an excerpt from the upcoming Brautigan novel I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye. The chapbook was laid in as a separate item. Later, in the same year, this piece was reissued on its own in an limited edition of 300 numbered and 26 lettered copies.

Ogar, Richard, editor. The Poet's Eye: A Tribute to Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Books. The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1997, pp. 61-63.

Background
This book associated with the Symposium and 49th Annual Meeting of The Friends of Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, California, 12-13 April 1996. The theme was "Ferlinghetti, City Lights Books, and the Beats in San Francisco: From the Margins to the Mainstream."

First publication of Brautigan's poems "Poem for Michael McClure" and "Rainy Gary Snyder Poetry Reading Night," as well as a poem titled "Remembering City Lights" by Brautigan's daughter Ianthe.

Poet Michael McClure and Brautigan were good friends. LEARN more.

S. A. Griffith, a Los Angeles, California, poet, actor, and one of the founding members of Carma Bums, a group of touring poets, wrote a description of the event.

Volta, no. 1, March 2000
Limited edition of approximately 150 copies; 50 laid into Volta the rest given away to friends of the press.
Published by Jim Camp, Synaesthesia Press.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "Hey, Bacon!" which was printed on 2" x 3.5" cardboard cut from cereal boxes. The poem was printed on the blank side (inside) of the ceral box cutout. The already printed portion of the cereal box formed the reverse.

According to Camp, Volta is a direct descendent of Wallace Berman's magazine Semina, a free-form art and poetry journal that Berman published between 1955 and 1964. Each of the nine issues was printed on a handpress and then hand-assembled by Berman who glued artwork, photographs, small poems and other items inside. Sometimes the enclosed items were loose, laid in between the magazine's pages, or tucked into inside pockets without prescribed order or sequence. Each issue was extremely limited, a few hundred copies, ephemeral although focused on a loose theme, personal, and distributed mostly via the U.S. Mail to a very select group of recipients who were often the contributors as well. As a literary journal, each issue of Semina was a loosely assembled compendium of the most interesting artists and poets of the time, staking out a new cultural context for the evolving literature and art counterculture. Camp continues this tradition with his magazine, Volta. He prints and sends out each issue when it is complete. None of the issues can be bought. They simply arrive.

X-Ray, no. 8, Summer 2001.
Limited edition of 100 lettered and 26 lettered and signed copies
4" x 4" letterpress broadside

Published by X-Ray Book and Novelty Company, Ventura, California, and laid into a 5" x 5" box with several items as an art assemblage. The box itself featured a letterpress wrapper.

First publication of the Brautigan poem "Desire in a Bowl of Potatoes," which was also issued separately
LEARN more at the X-Ray X-Ray Press website.

Also contained several letterpress broadsides featuring work by Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Dan Fante, Billy Childish, Michael Montfort, Bern Porter, Gerald Locklin, A.D. Winans, and others.

X-Ray, no. 9, Summer 2003.
Limited edition of 100 numbered and 26 lettered and signed copies
Published by X-Ray Book and Novelty Company, Ventura, California, and included with a flex-disc, various small broadsides and chapbooks, photographs, and art objects in a 8.5" x 7.75" cardboard box with printed wrap-around band as an art assemblage.

Included in this issue is the first publication of Brautigan's poem "Please" (as a 4" x 4" letterpress broadside) as well as work by Thurston Moore, Charles Bukowski, Dan Fante, Billy Childish, Michael Montfort, Bern Porter, A.D. Winans, and others.

"Yoru ni nagareru kawa." Asahi Shinbun, [Tokyo, Japan], Evening Edition, 6 June 1983, p. 5.
Translated by Shuntaro Tanikawa.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Night Flowing River." in Japanese.

Beatitude, no. 1, 9 May 1959, n. pg.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets with illustrated front cover of construction paper; No back cover.

Background
First publication of the Brautigan poem "The Whorehouse at the Top of Mount Rainier."

Also featured work by William J. Margolis, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, Monty Pike, B. Uronovitz, Robert Stock, Dave DeSilver, Bob Hartman, Mark Green, Carol Mann, John Richardson, Pierre Henri Delattre, Lew Gardner, and Joe Gould.

Beatitude was a San Francisco beatnik magazine founded by poets Bob Kaufman, John Kelly, and William J. Margolis. Issues 1-7 published weekly at 14 Bannam Alley. Issues 8 until cessation of publication at the end of the year were published monthly at the Bread and Wine Mission, 510 Greenwich Street, San Francisco, California.

Beatitude, vol. 4, 30 May 1959.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets with illustrated front cover.

Background
First publication of four Brautigan poems: "The American Submarine," "A Postcard from the Bridge," "That Girl," and "The Sink."

"The Sink", reprints the second stanza of Brautigan's 1957 poem "The World Will Never End."

Also featured work by Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, Ruth Weiss, Richard McBride, Stan Persky, and William Margolis.

Beatitude was a San Francisco beatnik magazine founded by poets Bob Kaufman, John Kelly, and William J. Margolis. Issues 1-7 published weekly at 14 Bannam Alley. Issues 8 until cessation of publication at the end of the year were published monthly at the Bread and Wine Mission, 510 Greenwich Street, San Francisco, California.

Beatitude vol. 9, 18 Sep. 1959.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets with illustrated front cover.

Background
First publication of the Brautigan poem "Swandragons." This issue also featured work by Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, David Meltzer, Bob Kaufman, William Margolis, Ron Padgett, Barbara Moraff, Richard McBride, Peter Orlovsky, and Philip Lamantia.

Beatitude was a San Francisco beatnik magazine founded by poets Bob Kaufman, John Kelly, and William J. Margolis. Issues 1-7 published weekly at 14 Bannam Alley. Issues 8 until cessation of publication at the end of the year were published monthly at the Bread and Wine Mission, 510 Greenwich Street, San Francisco, California.

The Beatles' Illustrated Lyrics. Dell, 1975.
208 pages
First publication of the Brautigan's introduction, "The Silence of Flooded Houses." to this collection of lyrics and over 100 photographs. Keith Abbott said this essay was a good example of Brautigan's inability to write journalism. For this assignment, like others, Abbot said Brautigan "spun out short, metaphorical fantasies" more dependent on his imagination, fueled by his friends and activities, for ideas than his ability to report on some event (Keith Abbott 88).

Berkeley Review, vol. 1, no. 3, 1957, pp. 14-15.
Published 1921 Walnut Street, Berkeley, California, 1956-1957. Edited/published by William P. Barlow, Jr., George Huppert, and C. A. Tong. Published only one volume (with three issues) from Winter 1956 through 1957.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "The Horse That Had A Flat Tire." Also reprints his "The Return of the Rivers." Also featured work by Walter Ballenger, Adrian Stoutenberg, Barbara Cochran, May Swenson, Robert Beloof, Samuel Menashe, Donald Gutierrez, David Cornel DeJong, John Tagliabue, Anthony Ostroff, Richard Wilbur, Richard Eberhart, and Robert Horan.

Blue Suede Shoes, .424, 1973. p. n. pg.
Published at 1146 Sutter, Berkeley, California. Edited by Keith Abbott.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets. Several issues, variously numbered. See "Background" below.

First publication of three Brautigan poems: "Montana Inventory," "Oak," and "Ben." Brautigan listed as a member of the "Board of Editors," along with John Ashbery, Andrei Codrescu, "Our Gal Flo," and Robert Creeley. Also featured work by Joyce Holland, Michael Sowl, Guillaume Appollinaire, Keith Abbott, Carlos Castaneda, Jr., Richard Snyder, Barry Alpert, Pat[rick] Nolan, and a Opal Nations-Keith Abbott collaboration.

Background
Volume 1 Numbers 1-15 (1968?- 1972?) were edited by Keith Abbott and Steve Carey. Numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 published at 1007 Lake Whatcom Blvd., Bellingham, Washington 98225.
Number 5, published as a book titled , Pat Nolan in a Buick Twenty Poems by Bob Hope was devoted to poems by Pat[rick] Nolan. Published (150 copies) at 724 Lottie Street, Monterey, California 93940. Twenty five copies were signed with a poem by the author.
Number 6 (1968) published in Monterey, California.
Number 7, published as a book titled Fleur-De-Lis, was devoted to poems by Steve Carey. Published (150 copies) in Monterey, California. Twenty copies were signed with various embellishments added by the author.
Number 8 (1971), published as a book titled Thick and Thin, was devoted to prose and poetry by Keith Abbott. Published (1,000 copies) in Monterey, California. Fifty copies were signed with a poem by the author.
Number 9, titled "The American Indian Issue," was published in Monterey, California.
Number 10, published as a book titled 2X, was devoted to prose by Keith Abbott and Michael Sowl. Published (175 copies) in Monterey, California.
Number 11, published (200 copies) by Strange Faeces Press, 42a, Pembridge Road, Notting Hill Gate, London W11, England. Edited by Keith Abbott.
Number 12 (1972), published as a book titled The Best Deal I Ever Made, was devoted to prose by Keith Abbott. Published in Monterey, California.
Number 13, called the "To hell and back" issue, published in Monterey, California. Edited by Keith Abbott and Harry Heilman.
Number 14 (1972), published as a book titled Hero Pills, was devoted to 1968-1969 stories by Keith Abbott. Published in Monterey, California.
Number 15 was edited by "Keith Abbott & Rhubarb." Published in Monterey, California.
Each issue contained prose and poetry work by modern American and British writers, translations of French and Spanish writers, parodies of American poetry, found poems, and editorials. Numbers 16-18 were to be Abbott's novel Gush, A Novel Starring the Gush Family about The Unemployment Problems in California.

The Decimal Series began after Volume 1, Number 15 with Number .5 ("The Organized Religion Issue," published in Berkeley, California) and progressed backwards: Number .314159265 ("The Pi Issue," published in Berkeley, California), Number .424 (published in Berkeley, California, 1973?), Number .016 (Face, devoted to poetry by Michael-Sean Lazaaarchuk, published in Berkeley, California), Number .406 (Chocolate Winter?, devoted to poetry by Michael Sowl, published in Berkeley, California, 1974?), Number .017 (published in Berkeley, California), and Number .386 (Brain 10, devoted to poetry "by the students in Miss Gatenby's 9th grade classes in Room 10 at Emeryville High." Published at 1020 Cornell, Albany, California 94706 in 1976).

"A Taste of the Taste of Brautigan." California Living, 16 May 1971, pp. 7-10.
The magazine of the San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle.

Introduction reads, "Richard Brautigan, an Aquarian born in Tacoma, Washington, January 30, 1935, has grown from an unknown poet of the Haight Ashbury during the days of the Flower Children, to one of the country's leading writers—in less than ten years. Among his works, widely read and discussed on college campuses—as well as in the general mainstream—are (novels) Trout Fishing in America, A Confederate General from Big Sur and (poetry) The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster and Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt."

First punblication of seven Brautigan poems: "They Are Really Having Fun", "We Meet. We Try. Nothing Happens, But", "Home Again Home Again Like a Turtle To His Balcony", "You Will Have Unreal Recollections of Me", "Finding Is Losing Something Else", "Impasse", and "Homage to Charles Atlas". Photographs, including one of Brautigan, by Edmund Shea.

"Four Stories for Aki and Other Treats." California Living, 14 Jan. 1979, pp. 5-7.
The magazine of the San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle. Described as "a compendium of short stories."

First publication of seven Brautigan stories: "The Short Story", "Walking Toward December". "The Purpose," "Meat," "The Great Golden Telescope," "Harmonica High"," and "Her Last Known Boyfriend"." The last of these was retitled "Her Last Known Boyfriend a Canadian Airman" in The Tokyo-Montana Express.

The Caxton Poetry Review, vol. 1, no. 2, Winter 1957, p. ***.
Published 7 January 1957.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "A Correction."

Background
The Caxton Review was a quarterly magazine edited by Albert R. Temple and Evelyn T. Browning.

This was Brautigan's first professional publication after moving to San Francisco. His second was If the Wind Should Borrow Time, published in The Caxton Poetry Review, vol. 1, no. 3, Spring 1957, p. 17.

Lawrence Wright says Brautigan, wanting to meet poet Ron Loewinsohn, handed him this poem, which responds to Carl Sandburg's famous poem "Fog" (Wright 34). Wright, Lawrence. "The Life and Death of Richard Brautigan." Rolling Stone, no. 445, 11 Apr. 1985, pp. 29, 31, 34, 36, 38, 40, 59, 61.

Loewinshon said Brautigan handed him "a little notebook. On one page was a poem in this incredible handwriting, a six-year-old's handwriting, which was called 'A Correction' ... . I chuckled, handed the notebook back to him, and he just walked away" (Peter Manso and Michael McClure 65).

The Caxton Poetry Review, vol. 1, no. 3, Spring 1957, p. 17.
24 pages. Side-stapled into letterpress card folder. 191 x 138 mm. Pamphlet. Published 12 April 1957. 50 cents, on cover.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "If the Wind Should Borrow Time."

Background
This twelve-line poem is Brautigan's second professional publication after moving to San Francisco. The first was "A Correction", published in The Caxton Poetry Review, vol. 1, no. 2, Winter 1956.

This was Brautigan's fifteenth appearance in print (at age 22), his sixth outside Oregon (and Nevada), and his fifth outside a newspaper.

The Caxton Review was a quarterly magazine edited by Albert R. Temple and Evelyn T. Browning. Publisher: Caxton Press, Cincinnati, Ohio. No subsequent issues known beyond Number 3. The period July-December 1957.

Change, 1963, n. pg.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Coffee."

The only issue of Brautigan's own literary journal, edited with Ron Loewinsohn, Change. Also called Change, the Fastest Car on Earth (Peter Manso and Michael McClure 65). Mimeographed sheets (8.5" x 11") with a photograph of Loewinsohn and Brautigan on the front cover. Published in San Francisco, California.

"Some Montana Poems/1973." City Lights Anthology. Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. City Lights Books, 1974, p. 95.

First publication of three Brautigan poems "Night" (one of two Brautigan poems with this title), "Dive Bombing the Lower Emotions" and "Nine Crows: Two Out of Sequence."

A larger format version of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Journal, where, in the first issue, Brautigan published three chapte rs from his then forthcoming novel Trout Fishing in America. Brautigan was part of a group of writers included who had been published by or were associated with City Lights or San Francisco: Jack Micheline, Jerry Kamstra, Charles Bukowski, Gail Chiarello, and Robert Creeley. Also included was poetry by Harold Norse; jailed Iranian poet Reza Baraheni; Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro; Isabelle Eberhardt, a young European who lived among the Muslims in North Africa; Jean Genet; a new translation of Arthur Rimbaud's A Season in Hell, writing by Black Power advocate Huey Newton, and Allen Ginsberg's record of his meeting with Ezra Pound (Barry Silesky 185-186).

"Trout Fishing in America." City Lights Journal, no. 1, 1963, pp. 27-32.
112 pages; Paperback, perfect bound with printed wrappers. Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA. Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Front cover photograph by Gary Snyder of Allen Ginsberg in the Central Himalayas. Dedicated to e. e. cummings and William Carlos Williams.

Featured three chapters from Brautigan's upcoming book "Trout Fishing in America" : "Worsewick," "The Salt Creek Coyotes," and "A Half-Sunday Homage to a Whole Leonardo da Vinci." Also featured a photograph of Brautigan. These three chapters are the earliest known publication of any part of the novel Trout Fishing in America.

In addition to this work by Brautigan, this issue also featured works by W. C. Williams, Anselm Hollo, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Daniel Moore, Ed Sanders, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Harold Norse, Ted Joans, Michael McClure, Stuart Z. Perkofff, Mayakovsky (translated by Hirschman and Erlich), Henri Michaux (translated by Corman), Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Antonin Artaud (translated by Rattray), and Bruce Conner. Poetry by Daniel Moore and Harold Norse was included in the first paperback collections published by Grove Press in 1957.

Of Brautigan, Barry Silesky said, "Also included was fiction writer Richard Brautigan, who had been writing and reading his poetry around North Beach since the fifties, even selling copies ... for small change on street corners. Three sections of Brautigan's strange, inviting, deceptively simple Trout Fishing in America appeared; it was an important early exposure for him that helped open the way to a wider audience, and to publication of that novel in 1967, as well as his previously written comic Confederate General in [sic] Big Sur in 1964. Both of them became best-sellers, and by the late sixties, Brautigan's following had grown from a tiny cult to a huge section of the swelling counterculture, rivaling that of Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti himself" (Barry Silesky 122).

Clear Creek, no. 3, June 1971, p. 30.

First publication of the Brautigan poem "Are You the Lamb of Your Own Forgiving?"

The CoEvolution Quarterly, no. 8, Winter 1975, p. 49.
Published by Point in Sausalito, California.
First publication of six Brautigan poems: "We Are In A Kitchen," "January 4 3," "A Penny Smooth As A Star," "Fuck Me Like Fried Potatoes," "Seconds," "Autobiography (When the Moon Shines Like a Dead Garage)." All collected in "Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork." Also featured work by Robert Creeley, Paul Krassner, Gurney Norman, and Anne Waldman.

The CoEvolution Quarterly [Sausalito, California], no. 9, Spring Mar. 20, 1976, p. 23.

First publication of Brautigan's essay "Owls" along with others commenting on Gerard O'Neill's idea of Space Colonies. Brautigan spoke against space colonization and for ecology.

This issue of The CoEvolution Quarterly also included commentary by Wendell Berry, Ken Kesey, Buckminister Fuller, Astronaut Russell Schweickart, John Todd, Joni Mitchell, and California Governor Jerry Brown.

The CoEvolution Quarterly, no. 21, Spring (March 21) 1979, p. 77.
Published by Point, Sausalito, California.
First publication of Brautigan's story "Farewell to the First Grade and Hello to the National Enquirer" appeared in a section titled "Used Magazines" where "63 strange people tell what they read." Included in the list of "strange people" were Wendell Berry, William S. Burroughs, Robert Crumb, and Allen Ginsberg. Of note: William S. Burroughs read Soldier of Fortune.

"Three by Richard Brautigan." Corona, no. 2, 1981, pp. 12-14.
First publication of three Brautigan stories: "The Last of What's Left", "Closets", and "The Grasshopper's Mirror".

Background
Michael Sexson, editor of Corona notes,
I think we called them stories because Richard said so. They seem tiny short stories, but it would not be wrong to call them poems either. Notice that we evaded the issue in the text by calling it "Three by Richard Brautigan."
Michael Sexson. Email to John F. Barber, 18 February 2002.

Coyote's Journal, no. 5/6, 1966, p. 81.
116 pages

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Study in California Flowers".

Imprint varies. Number 1-4 published in Eugene, Oregon; number 5-8 in San Francisco, California by City Lights; Number 9- in Berkeley, CA by Book People; Number 11 in Brunswick, Maine by Coyote Books; Number 12 in Brattleboro, Vermont by Coyote Books.

Danse Macabre, vol. 1, no. 1, 1957, pp. 18-19.

Background
First publication of two Brautigan poems: "They Keep Coming Down the Dark Streets" and "15 Stories in One Poem."

Danse Macabre, Edited and published by R. T. Baylor, began publication in 1957, and was published quarterly at 653 12th Street, Manhattan Beach, California. Printed by Ottumwa Duplicating Service, Ottumwa, Iowa.

This issue also featured work by Orma McCormick, Richard Dwyer, Lilith Lorraine, Judson Crews, James Boyer May, and Carl Larsen, who edited the journal Existaria, a Journal of Existant Hysteria in which Brautigan published two poems: "The Daring Little Guy on the Burma Shave Sign" and "The World Will Never End" in 1957. Larsen was also one of the poets included, along with Brautigan, in the book Four New Poets. Learn more. Lilith Lorraine edited the journal Flame in which Brautigan published the poem "Someplace in the World a Man is Screaming in Pain" in 1955.

Abbott, Keith. Downstream from Trout Fishing in America. Capra Press, 1989, p. 137.

First publication of Brautigan's poems "Somehow We Live and Die Again," "Reflection," and "Death Growth."

"The Library." The Dutton Review, no. 1, 1970, pp. 167-182.
Published in New York, New York. Edited by Hal Scharlatt, Robert Brown, and Jerome Charyn.

Featured four chapters from Brautigan's upcoming book The Abortion: "The Library," "The Automobile Accident," "The 23," and "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come out Tonight?"
These chapters comprised Book 1, titled "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come out Tonight?", of the novel.

This issue also featured works by William Gaddis, Raymond Mungo, C. P. Cavafy, Norma Meacock, Barton Midwood, Rudolph Wurlitzer, Anthony Kerrigan, John Hawkes, Jack Newfield, Stanley Elkin, LeRoi Jones, and Jorge Luis Borges.

Earth, vol. 2, no. 1, Jan. 1971.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Homage to Rudi Gernreich/1965".
A story about the Pet Cemetary in San Francisco's The Presidio.
Featured a photograph taken in November 1965 by Erik Weber of Brautigan looking over the pet tombstones there.

The magazine (8" x 11.5" with cover artwork by Bob Zoell) featured four pages of artwork by Robert Crumb titled "Mr. Natural's 719th Meditation" and full color photographs of musician Shuggie Otis by San Francisco photographer Lisa Law.

A quote by California designer Rudi Gernreich acts as a prologue to the story. "The look in clothes expresses an anti-attitude, the result of being bored . . . And so, if you're bored, you go for the outrageous gesture. Everything else seems to have lost any meaning."

Epos, vol. 8, no. 2, Winter 1956, p. 23.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "The Second Kingdom," inspired by Linda Webster.

Background
Epos was a post-Beat avant-garde poetry magazine published by New Athenaeum Press, Lake Como, Florida. Edited by Evelyn Thorne and Will Tullos. Provided this biographical information concerning Brautigan.

"Richard Brautigan, 21, 'I have been writing poetry since I was 17. Olivant will publish my first book of poems, Tiger in the Telephone Booth. Making paper flowers out of love and death is a disease, but how beautiful it is.'"

Brautigan's reference to Tiger in the Telephone Booth as his first book of poetry comes from his correspondence with D. Vincent Smith, editor of the small literary magazine Olivant. Smith maintained publication offices in Fitzgerald, Georgia, and editorial offices in Japan where he was posted on active military duty. The first issue was published in 1956.

Smith wrote Brautigan in late 1955-early 1956 saying he intended to republish the poem Someplace in the World a Man is Screaming in Pain, published in the Fall 1955 issue of Flame, in the first issue of Olivant. He asked to see a selection of further writing for possible publication in a supplement to Olivant. Brautigan apparently sent Smith a selection of poems.

In July 1956, Smith wrote Brautigan again, saying he intended to publish all of Brautigan's submitted poems in a collection to be titled Tiger in the Telephone Booth. The book was never published. The Return of the Rivers, published in May 1957, is considered Brautigan's first poetry book publication. The poems intended for Tiger in the Telephone Booth were "lost."

Epos, vol. 8, no. 4, Summer 1957, p. 6.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "A Young Poet."

Background
Epos was a post-Beat avant-garde poetry magazine published by New Athenaeum Press, Lake Como, Florida. Edited by Will Tullos and Evelyn Thorne.

Epos, vol. 9, no. 3, Spring 1958, pp. 20-21.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Kingdon Come."

Epos was a post-Beat avant-garde poetry magazine published by New Athenaeum Press, Lake Como, Florida. Edited by Will Tullos and Evelyn Thorne.

Esquire, no. 74, October 1970, pp. 152-153.

First publication of "The Lost Chapters of Trout Fishing in America": 'Rembrandt Creek' and 'Carthage Sink' along with a full-page color illustration of Brautigan by Richard Weigand.

Esquire, Vol. LXXVIII, No. 3, September 1972, p. 50.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Autobiography (Polish It Like a Piece of Silver)."

The reference to "Byrds" in this poem is a small town in central Texas near Brownwood.
The reference to "Judy" is Judy Gordon. She and her husband, Roxy, were friends of Brautigan and he visited them in Austin, Texas, in August 1970. Rommel Drives On Deep Into Egypt, a collection of poetry, was dedicated to Roxy and Judy Gordon.

Esquire, Vol LXXXIII, no. 3, March 1975, pp. 70, 134.

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Gun for Big Fish".

Eugene High School News, 19 Dec. 1952, p. 5.
Published under the larger title "Poet's Nook" and the subheading "Creative Writers Express Christmas Spirit." Credit: "Richard Brautigan." Included several poems by faculty and students, as well as Brautigan.

First publication of Brautigan's poem, "The Light."

Background
The Eugene High School News was the newspaper of Brautigan's high school in Eugene, Oregon. LEARN more. This poem was possibly Brautigan's first publication and his first as "Richard Brautigan." Until his final year of high school Brautigan was known as "Porterfield," the surname of his mother's second husband, Robert Geoffrey "Tex" Porterfield. Just before his graduation, he changed his surname from "Porterfield" to "Brautigan" and used that name for the rest of his life. Allegedly, Brautigan met his biological father, Bernard Brautigan, only twice. Bernard contended, upon learning of Brautigan's death, that he never knew he had a son. LEARN more.

"Trout Fishing in America." Evergreen Review, no. 31, Oct.-Nov. 1963, pp.12-27.

Featured four chapters from Brautigan's upcoming novel: "The Hunchback Trout," "Room 208, Hotel Trout Fishing in America," "The Surgeon," and "The Cleveland Wrecking Yard." Also featured work by Anselm Hollo, Pauline Reage, Andrei Voznesensky, Lenore Kandel, Harold Norse, Robert Coover, W. S. Merwin, Jack Kerouac, and Douglas Woolf.

Evergreen Review, published in New York, NY, 1957-1973, was edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriman Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

"Trout Fishing in America" 2." Evergreen Review, no. 33, Aug.-Sept. 1964, pp. 42-47.

Featured five chapters from Brautigan's upcoming novel: "Witness for Trout Fishing in America Peace," "A Note on the Camping Craze That is Currently Sweeping America," "The Pudding Master of Stanley Basin," "In the California Bush," and "Trout Death by Port Wine." Also featured work by John Fowles, Robert Gover, Blaise Cendrars (translated by Anselm Hollo), Jakov Lind, Michael O'Donoghue, Julian Beck, Judith Malina, Jack Kerouac, Lysander Kemp, Alden Van Buskirk, and Harold Pinter.

Evergreen Review, published in New York, NY, 1957-1973, was edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriman Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

Evergreen Review, no, 42, Aug. 1966, pp. 30-32, 86.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Menu" (which was later collected under the name "The Menu/1965") where he discussed the menu served to San Quentin Death Row prisoners saying, "It's so stark, so real . . . it's like a poem. This menu alone condemns our society. To feed somebody this kind of food who is already effectively dead represents all the incongruity of the whole damn thing. It's senseless."

Editor Robert Sherrill contacted Brautigan in March 1965 and saying he wanted a story about death row. Sherrill wanted a story based on facts, but told with fictional techniques and Brautigan's point of view, a funny story pointing to the absurdity rather than the horror of the lives of those livingon death row. Esquire offered US$600.00, plus expenses, plus a US$200.00 guarantee in case they refused the story. Brautigan contacted Associate Warden in charge of press relations James Park, 1 April asking if he might visit San Quentin death row. Brautigan rode a bus from San Francisco to San Quentin in Marin County. Brautigan filled fourteen pages in his notebook with notes about the condemed men and their last words. He was interested in what the men of death row ate regularly. Warden Park gave him a copy of the menu listing everything the men on death row could eat the week of 12-18 April 1965. Back in San Francisco, Brautigan shared his notes and observations with Zekial Marko (the "aspiring Hollywood scriptwriter" noted in the story), Philip Whalen, Lew Welch, and others. He incorporated several of their remarks into his final story which he sent to Sherrill before the end of the month. Brautigan included the actual menu, as a piece of found art, in the middle of his story. Sherrill edited Brautigan's story, but then declined to publish it in Esquire. Brautigan placed Sherrill's edited version in Evergreen Review the following year.

Evergreen Review, published in New York, New York, 1957-1973, was edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriam Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

Evergreen Review, vol. 61, December 1968, pp 24-26.

First publication of the Brautigan story "What Are You Going to Do with 390 Photographs of Christmas Trees."

Included a montage of nine photographs of discarded Christmas trees by Erik Weber, who is the photographer friend Brautigan refers to in the story. Brautigan called Weber the first week in January 1964, and enlisted his help in photographing discarded Christmas trees. The project, thought Brautigan, would show the shallowness of Christmas, and how easily it was discarded once passed. Brautigan originally intended a small, illustrated book, but never followed through. Instead, he wrote this story, recounting his project with Weber and an anonymous friend. In the original story, everyone is referred to by their proper name, except the anonymous friend. When he included this story in The Tokyo-Montana Express, Brautigan, who had ended his friendship with Weber, changed his name from "Erik" to "Bob."

Evergreen Review, published in New York, New York, 1957-1973, was edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriam Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

Evergreen Review, no. 76, March 1970, p. 51.
Published in New York, New York, 1957-1973. Edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriman Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

First publication of the Brautigan story "The Betrayed Kingdom."

Evergreen Review, no. 84, November 1970, p. 41.
Published in New York, New York, 1957-1973. Edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriam Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

First publication of the Brautigan story "Complicated Banking Problems."

Existaria, a Journal of Existant Hysteria, vol. 7, Sep.-Oct. 1957, p. 14.

Background
First publication of two poems by Brautigan: "The Daring Little Guy on the Burma Shave Sign" and "The World Will Never End." The second stanza of "The World Will Never End" was reprinted in 1959 as "The Sink." "The Sink."

Existaria, a Journal of Existant Hysteria was edited by Carl Larsen. Published at 328 Palm Drive, Hermosa Beach, California. Printed by Ottumwa Duplicating Service, Ottumwa, Iowa. Ceased publication with Volume #7, September/October 1957. Larsen was one of the poets included, along with Brautigan, in the book Four New Poets. Learn more.

Also included work by O. W. Crane, Jed Garrick, Charles Bukowski, Rozana Webb, Joseph Martinek, Cerise Farallon, Fred Cogswell, E. W. Northnagel, Claudia Archuletta, Clarence Major, Apollinaire, John Charles Chadwick, Rockwell B. Schaefer, and Judson Crews.

Smith, Claude, H. "Gab & Gossip." Fallon Standard, 25 July 1956, p. 6.

Background
First publication of two Brautigan poems, "Storm over Fallon" and "The Breeze." Published in a column titled "Gab & Gossip" written by Claude H. Smith, President of The Fallon Standard, published weekly (every Wednesday) in Fallon, Nevada. As an introduction, Smith wrote.
"When it comes to poetry or other types of literature, we leave to others the appraisal of what's good. Of poetry we are quite shy.

"This page, however, carries two short pieces of blank verse by a newcomer to Fallon, Richard Brautigan. They are local. We like them both. Do you?"

Barney Mergen writes of Brautigan's visit to Reno and Fallon, Nevada, is his memoir "A Strange Boy." LEARN more.

Flame, vol. 2, no. 3, Autumn 1955, inside back cover.
Sixteen pages, green wrappers, stapled binding. Edited by Lilith Lorraine. Printed in London, England.

First publication of the Brautigan poem "Someplace in the World a Man is Screaming in Pain."

Background
Flame was published quarterly in Alpine, Texas, 1954-1963. Poems by Lorraine and Brautigan appeared together in the first issue of Danse Macabre in 1957. Brautigan's poem was 15 Stories in One Poem.

Foot, no.1, September 1959.
Published in San Francisco, California. Edited by Richard Duerdan. Cover art of a pair of human feet by Robert Duncan.

First publication of five poems by Brautigan: "The Rape of Ophelia," "Postcard from Chinatown," "The Nature Poem," "Horse Race," "The Last Music is Not Heard." Also featured work by [Burgess] Jess Collins, Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Philip Whalen, Gary Snyder, and others.

Hedley, Leslie Woolf, editor. Four New Poets. Inferno Press, 1957, pp. 3-9.
Thirty-four pages. Printed and stapled wrappers. Published Fall 1957.

First publication of four Brautigan poems: "The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth's Beer Bottles," "The Mortuary Bush," "Twelve Roman Soldiers and an Oatmeal Cookies," "Gifts." This was Brautigan's first book appearance prior to his own solely authored book, The Return of the Rivers.

Four New Poets featured poetry by four poets the editor described as "representing an articulate segment of a sometime-called 'silent generation'." Of Brautigan Hedley said, "Richard Brautigan is a young poet who was born January 30, 1935 in Tacoma, Washington. He now lives in San Francisco where he is working on a book of poems, The Horse That Had A Flat Tire."

The other three poets were: Martin Hoberman, Carl Larsen, and James M. Singer. At the time of publication, none of the poets were over the age of 25. Larsen edited Existaria, a Journal of Existant Hysteria, in which, in 1957, Brautigan published two poems: "The Daring Little Guy on the Burma Shave Sign" and "The World Will Never End."

Inferno Press issued 6.5" x 3.5" announcements for the book, printed in blue and gold ink on one side of heavy white paper and illustrated with a gold handprint. The promotional blurb read, "This collection from the work of four young poets, all under 25, presents an interesting contrast that is most refreshing after so much orthodoxy in current American poetry."

Leslie Woolf Hedley also edited a small poetry journal called Inferno. A total of eleven issues were published between 1950 and 1956. "Although Inferno did print a few significant Bay Area poets, the editorial bent seemed to be primarily international anonymity" (Eloyde Tovey 31).

Free City News, no. 1, October 1967.
San Francisco

Many leaves (but not Brautigan's) were printed on both sides with illustrated poems and prose pieces and news commentary. All were anonymous.
Artwork by Stanley Muse.
An anthology of ten poems, each published as broadsides by the Diggers. Also issued separately.
8.5" x 14" white construction-like paper of various colors; Ten leaves (broadsides) plus illustrated front and back wrappers.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Boo, Forever," here untitled and so often cited by its first line: "Spinning Like a Ghost." This broadside was also issued seprately.

Brautigan's poem, without title, was centered on the page, framed by an Egyptian-style erotic illustration and a numbered listing of Kama Sutra sexual positions.

Brautigan originally titled this poem part of "Three Poems to Celebrate the History of Marcia" in reference to Marcia Pacaud.

The Free You, vol. 3, no. 6, May 1969, p. 45.
Published in Menlo Park, California, by Midpeninsula Free University. Edited by Fred Nelson, Jon Buckley, Ed McClanahan, and others.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "All Girls Should Have a Poem."

Midpeninsula Free University of Palo Alto, California, (MFU), was an experiment in alternative education that began in 1965 as a Marxist-oriented challenge to the nearby Stanford University. Courses included yoga, mediation, and other experiential offerings. For a $US10.00 membership fee, one could sign up for any course offered by MFU, or teach any course he or she wished. The MFU faculty included Black Panthers, hippies, Stanford professors, and auto mechanics. Notable attendees were Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who went on to found Apple Computer. Peak membership was claimed to be more than a thousand. In addition to the school, MFU operated a restaurant, a head shop, and a free store.

MFU course offerings were detailed in a semi-annnual catalog called The Free You between 1968 and 1971. Starting as an 8.5" x 11" mimeographed house organ, the catalog grew to a full-color, fifty-page magazine distributed widely outside the university. Illustrations were often included. In fact, artist M. C. Escher wrote, 20 April 1969, "The Hippies of San Francisco continue to print my work illegaly. . . . I was sent a forty-eight-page programme or catalogue of the so-called "Midpeninsula Free University," Menlo Park, California. It included three reproductions of my prints alternating with photographs of seductive naked girls."

The editors of The Free You solicited writings from friends. Ed McClanahan knew Brautigan and may have asked him to contribute something to the catalog. Brautigan's poem appeared in a swirling color psychedelic illustration style popular at the time. The artist was attributed simply as Marghee [sic].

"Richard Brautigan: Tokyo and Montana." Friends of the Washington Review of the Arts, vol. 9, no. 5, Feb./Mar. 1984, p. 9.

First publication in English of Brautigan's poem "Night Flowing River" and first publication of Brautigan's story "The Lost Tree", Includes a photograph of Brautigan by Toby Thompson.

Harper's Magazine, vol. 243, no. 1457, October 1971, p. 58.

First publication of the Brautigan poem "Crow Maiden."

Hearse: A Vehicle Used to Convey the Dead, vol. 9, 1961, p. 4.

First publication of the Brautigan poem "The Rain." "The Rain."

Background
Published at 3118 K. Street, Eureka, California. Seventeen issues, 1957-1972. Edited by E. V. Griffith who described Hearse as ". . . an irreverant quarterly, carrying poetry, prose artwork and incidental cadaver to the Great Cemetery of the American Intellect. . ."

Heliotrope, Summer 1969, n. pg.
Published in San Francisco, CA.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Critical Can Opener."

Heliotrope was a learning environment open to anyone and offered a wide range of courses: massage, cinema, celebration of dusk, for example. This publication (6" x 9 1/4" printed on heavy, yellow paper) was the summer catalog.

Hollow Orange, no. 4 1967, n. pg.
Published at 642 Shrader Street, San Francisco, California by Cranium Press
Edited by Clifford Burke
String tied wrappers

First publication of three poems by Brautigan: "Comets," "It's Raining in Love," and "Nine Things."

Also featured works by Keith Abbott, Bill Bathurst, Clifford Burke, Nick Chavin, Gino Clays, Zoltan Farkas, Max Finstein, Eugene Lesser, Martin MacClain, Jeff Sheppard (A poet friend of Brautigan to whom the poem "Hey! This Is What It's All About" was dedicated.), Ronald Silliman, David Tammer, David Sandberg, Patrick Nolan, and Steve Carey.

International Times, no. 119, 16-30 December 1971, p. 16.
London underground magazine started by Barry Miles.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Halloween in Denver." Featured an illustration by "Yellow Pig." Cover shows Fat Freddy as Father Christmas. Contents include a pullout paranoia board game, a full-page photograph of Jim Morrison, and a review of a Yoko Ono film.

J, no. 1, Sep. 1959, p. n. pg.
Printed on 8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets.
J magazine was privately published in San Francisco, California, 1959-1961, eight issues. Edited by Jack Spicer and George Stanley. Also featured work by Robert Duncan, James Alexander, Ebbe Borregaard, Robin Blaser, Jack Spicer, Joe Dunn, Sam the Tenor Man, and Kay Johnson.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "The Fever Monument."

J, no. 4, Nov. 1959.
Printed on 8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets; 16 pages. Hand-colored blue and green illustration on front cover.
J magazine was privately published in San Francisco, California, 1959-1961, eight issues. Edited by Jack Spicer and George Stanley.

First publication of three poems by Brautigan: "The Pumpkin Tide ," "The Sidney Greenstreet Blues," and "Surprise."

Also featured work by Robert Duncan, Joanne Kyger, Josef Elias, Donald Merriam Allen, John Ryan, Jack Spicer, George Stanley, and Wallace Allen.

J, no. 5, December 1959.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets. Front cover illustrated with a hand-colored gold border.
J magazine was privately published in San Francisco, California, 1959-1961, eight issues. Edited by Jack Spicer and George Stanley.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "1942" as well as work by L. Frank Baum, Larry Eigner, [Burgess] Jess Collins, Ron Loewinsohn, George Stanley, Robert Duncan, Richard Duerden, and Jack Spicer. LEARN more.

Jeopardy, no. 6, March 1970, p. 90.
Published in Bellinghman, Washington, by the Associated Student Body of Western Washington State College.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Partners," as well as work by Keith Abbott, Greg Kuzma, Anselm Hollo, Noritoshi Tachibana (translated by Yozo Shibuya and Ron Bayes), Stephen Dunn, Richard Eberhart, James Den Boer, Charles Bukowski, Joyce Odam, William Stafford, Louis Ginsberg, Ann Mennebroker, John Stevens Wade, Stanley Cooperman, Stanley Plumley, Collete Inez, Terry Stokes, and Grace Butler.

Journal for the Protection of All Beings, no. 3, 1969, n. pg.
Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, California. 6" x 10.25."

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Shellfish."

Background
Journal for the Protection of All Beings is generally considered one of the first radical ecology magazines. Published four issues, 1961-1978. Each issue's title varied and often depended on the focus of the content.

This issue was subtitled "Green Flag: People's Park Poetry" and included protest prose and poetry by University of California-Berkeley students focusing on the disruption of student gardening in a vacant lot called "People's Park." It was put together and sold in support of the Bail Defense Fund for the hundreds arrested following the protest over the closure of the park. Cover illustration by Eugene Hawkins Legend. Other illustrations by John Corrie. Brautigan's poem "Shellfish" appeared in the "To Every Animal" section but did not appear in the table of contents.

The journal itself was not a poetry magazine, "but it provided a forum for local poets to express their concern about their society" (Eloyde Tovey 43). The journal was started by Michael McClure and David Meltzer. It began production in San Francisco in 1961 under the City Lights imprint. The first issue of this magazine was edited by McClure, David Meltzer, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. It was conceived as a political magazine with a populist dialogue that hopefully would appeal to a broad audience.

Kaleidoscope-Milwaukee, vol. 3, no. 9, 12 October 1970, pp. 1, 10.
Published biweekly Box 5457, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53701.

First publication of the Brautigan story "Talk Show."

Kulchur, no. 13, Spring 1964, pp. 51-55.
Published in New York, New York spring 1960 (issue #1) through winter 1965 (issue #20) and offered serious commentary or criticism about literature, film, politics, and music. This issue (no. 13) was edited by Lita Hornick, Frank O'Hara (art), and Leroi Jones (music).

First publication of the Brautigan story "The Post Offices of Eastern Oregon."

Contributing editors: Charles Olson, Gilbert Sorrentino, A. B. Spellman, and Bill Berks. Authors include Allen Ginsberg ("The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express July 18, 1963"), Gilbert Sorrentino ("The Art of Hubert Selby"), Pauline Kael ("Film Review"), Warren Tallman ("Robert Creeley's Portrait of the Artist"), Allan Kaplan, and Joe LeSuer.
The front cover photograph was taken from Andy Warhol's movie The Kiss (1963, 54 minutes).

Lita Hornick, editor, recounts the contents saying that in Kulchur 13, "Richard Brautigan, then a relatively unknown writer, contributed a characteristic piece of fiction called "The Post Offices of Eastern Oregon" (Hornick. "Kulchur: Memoir." TriQuarterly, no. 43, Fall, 1978, pp. 280-297).

"Three Stories by Richard Brautigan." Mademoiselle, vol. 71, no. 3, July 1970, pp. 104-105.

First publication of three Brautigan stories: "1692 Cotton Mather Newsreel," "Sand Castles," and "Pacific Radio Fire."

Mademoiselle, vol. 80., no. 1, Nov. 1974, pp. 192-193.

First publilcation of Brautigan's story "An Eye for Good Produce" and Brautigan's poem "Good Luck, Captain Martin."

Mainstream, vol. 2, no. 2, Summer-Autumn 1957, p. 14.
5" x 9". 63 pages. Bound in titled, over-laid wraps.
Subtitled "A Quarterly Journal of Poetry, The Arts and Contemporary Comment." This issue labeled the "San Francisco Issue."

First publication of the Brautigan poem "The Final Ride."

Background
Mainstream was edited by Robin Raey Cuscaden and Ronald Offen. Published published at 17 South Cedar Street, Palatine, Illinois, by Jack R. Lander. Ceased publication with Volume 2, Number 3, Winter 1958.

Mark In Time: Portraits & Poetry / San Francisco. Edited by Nick Harvey. Glide Publications, 1971, pp. 170-171, 173-174.
188 pages; Hardcover, with dustjacket; 9.5" x 9.5"
An overview of the San Francisco poetry scene in the early 1970s.

First publication of two poems by Brautigan: "On Pure Sudden Days Like Innocence" and "Curiously Young Like a Freshly-Dug Grave."

Also featured poets Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Wieners, George Oppen, Joanne Kyger, Pete Winslow, Kenneth Rexroth, Lew Welch, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ishmael Reed, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, William Everson, Gary Snyder, Brautigan, and others. Each poet given a double-page spread with a photograph by Christa Fleishmann and biographical information.

Autobiographical note reads, "Richard Brautigan (191) was born January 30, 1935, in the Pacific Northwest. He has lived in San Francisco for many years. He is the author of Trout Fishing in America (novel); A Confederate General from Big Sur (novel); In Watermelon Sugar (novel); The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster (poetry); Please Plant This Book (poetry); All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (poetry); Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt (poetry); and The Abortion: An Historical Romance of 1966 (novel) and Revenge of the Lawn (short stories), both due in 1971."

Solotaroff, Theodore, editor. New American Review, Number 12, Simon and Schuster, 1971, pp. 123-126.

The inspiration for this story came in a telephone call to Virginia Alder, Brautigan's first wife, in the fall of 1960 regarding the death of her father, Grover Cleveland Alder, in Los Angeles, California. Virginia was not in the apartment and Brautigan took the call. When she returned, Brautigan told her of her father's death that afternoon. Nearly ten years later, in the last weeks of 1969, Brautigan wrote of that afternoon in 1960, and chronicled the life of his father in law in thirty-three short, numbered passages.

"2 New Stories by Richard Brautigan." The New Ingenue, May 1973, pp. 92-93.
Published by Ingenue Communciations, New York, New York.

First publication of two stories by Brautigan: "A Feeling of Helplessness" and "The Last of my Armstrong Creek Mosquito Bites." The table of contents reads: "A FEELING OF HELPLESSNESS/THE LAST OF MY ARMSTRONG MOSQUITO BITES
Richard Brautigan gives us two new short stories."

Both stories printed on page 92. a photograph by Erik Weber of Brautigan fishing Armstrong Creek, Montana, October 1972, was used as a background across the two pages.

New Orleans Review, vol. 7, no. 1, 1980, p. 24.
Published by Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

First publication of Brautigan's story "In Pursuit of the Impossible Dream."

"The Cleveland Wrecking Yard." The New Writing in the USA. Edited by Donald Merriam Allen and Robert Creeley. Penguin, 1967, pp. 33-38.

Features chapters from Brautigan's upcoming book Trout Fishing in America

Nice, vol. 1, no. 1, 1967, n. pg.
Published in Brightlingsea, Essex, England, 1966-1967. Edited by Thomas Clark.

Nice is the tenth in a series of issues, each described as "a one shot magazine," each edited by Clark and published as "Vol. 1 No. 1." Each issue had a different cover title: "Once," "Twice," "Thrice," "Thrice and 1/2?," "Frice," "Vice," "Spice," "Slice," "Ice," and "Nice." All were collected in The Once Series and reprinted by Krause Reprint Company (New York, 1970).

Clark apparently solicited this story for his magazine. In a letter to Clark, dated September 7, 1965, Brautigan thanks him for his postcard (the request for a submission?) and says, "I have enclosed a short story called "The Armored Car" that I hope will interest you." Brautigan asks for "two copies of the issue that it [the story] is printed in" and that the copyright notice is printed with the story, "if you decide you want to use the story." Brautigan concludes his letter, "Anyway, your magazine sounds like fun." LEARN more.

The dedication for this story reads: "For Janice."
This was Janice Meissner with whom Brautigan lived from November 1964-May 1966. The couple lived together at three different addresses: 533 Divisadero Street (apartment 4), 544 Divisadero Street, and 2830 California Street. Photographer Erik Weber photographed them together. Brian Nation lived nearby and provides an account of his relationship with Brautigan and Meissner.

The Northwest's Own Magazine, 11 Oct. 1953, p. 10.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Moonlight on a Cemetery."

Background
Part of a full-page feature of Oregon poets with the heading "State Recognizes Oregon Poets: Governor and mayor proclaim observance; work of local writers presented." The brief text, by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian read.

BY PROCLAMATIONS [sic] of Governor Paul Patterson and Portland's Mayor Fred Peterson, Oregon Poetry Day will be observed October 15. This Sunday, as a part of an ambitious program of prescheduled events, Oregonian Verse presents local poets in a featured full-page spread.

The editor regrets a number of fine poems submitted must be held over for a near-future column.

The idea of Poetry Day originated with Lucia Trent, a Texas poet, as a memorial to her poet husband Ralph Cheney. By a 1952 count, 38 states had joined in the movement to honor their poets. This was Oregon's fourth observance.

The Northwest's Own Magazine, 29 Nov. 1953, p. 11.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Part of "Oregonian Verse: First Publication Poetry" edited by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of the Brautigan poem, "Winter Sunset."

The Northwest's Own Magazine, 7 Feb. 1954, p. 21.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Part of "Oregonian Verse: First Publication Poetry" edited by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of the Brautigan poem "The Ageless One."

Northwest Roto Magazine, 29 May 1955, p. 9.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Part of "Oregonian Verse: First Publication Poetry" edited by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of the Brautigan poem "So Many Twilights."

Northwest Roto Magazine, 14 Aug. 1955, p. 23.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Part of "Oregonian Verse: First Publication Poetry" edited by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "R. Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of Brautigan's poem "First Star on the Twilight River."

Northwest Roto Magazine, 2 Oct. 1955, p. 14.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Part of "Oregonian Verse: First Publication Poetry" edited by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of Brautigan poem "Butterfly's Breath."

Now Now, no. 2, 1965, n. pg.
Counterculture magazine published in San Francisco, California, by Ari Publications from 1963 (issue #1) to 1965 (issue #3).

First publication of Brautigan's story "Banners of My Own Choosing."

Now Now was edited by Charles Plymell who said, "I sat with Richard Brautigan in some of the new head shops and discussed the scene. He had a sense of what the new generation liked to hear. I took some of his poems to publish in an issue of Now magazine (289). . . . It was the time of nude parties and free love, when women's bodies were painted on. The last time I saw Richard Brautigan was at such a party" (Plymell 292-293). Plymell also printed the first issues of Zap comic with illustrations by Robert Crumb. Other contributors included Philip Whalen, Bruce Conner, Wallace Berman (collage), Allen Ginsberg, Lew Welch, Michael Bowen (collage), George Herms, and Dennis Hopper.

O'er, no. 2, December 1966, pp. 107-109.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets of different colored construction paper; 128 pages; staple binding
Published in San Francisco, California, by Cranium Press.
Edited by David Sandberg.
Called variously Awwr, O'er, and Oar at different points of this issue. First issue appeared April 1966 and was titled or #1.

First publication of three poems by Brautigan: "The House" and "My Nose is Growing Old" and "November 3." Each poem appeared on a separate page. "My Nose is Growing Old" and "November 3" were collected in All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. The poem "The House" was not included in any collection. In addition to Brautigan's poems, this issue also featured a full-page advertisement for The Galilee Hitch-Hiker to be published by Oar, complete with made up blurbs promoting the book. Also included contributions by Jack Spicer, Lew Welch, Anselm Hollo, John Sinclair, Clark Coolidge, and others.

Outside , Sep. 1977, p. 7.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Dogs on the Roof."

The Overland Journey of Joseph Francl: The First Bohemian to Cross the Plains to the California Gold Fields. William P. Wreden, [16 Dec.] 1968.
Limited edition of 540 copies of which 500 were offered for sale.
55 pages; 7.25" x 10" Bound in decorative paper boards with a paper spine label; plain white wrapper
Covers and interior pages illustrated with stylized line drawings by Berkeley, California, film-maker and artist, Patricia Oberhaus.
Typographic design by Jack Werner Stauffacher of Greenwood Press, San Francisco
Binding by Schuberth Bookbindery
Illustrated prospectus laid in

First publication of Brautigan's essay forming the introduction to this book, "The Overland Journey of Joseph Francl and the Eternal Sleep of His Wife Antonia in Crete, Nebraska."

A reprinting of Francl's diary kept during his travels from Wisconsin to California. First published serially in 1928. Brautigan's essay serves as the introduction, and was written on the invitation of Wreden, a San Francisco rare books and manuscripts dealer. The essay was later included in The Tokyo-Montana Express. READ this essay.

The publication announcement, sent out by William P. Wreden, included an illustration of Joseph Francl by Oberhaus and noted the introduction by Richard Brautigan. "Richard Brautigan is a novelist-poet living in San Francisco. His novels include A Confederate General from Big Sur and Trout Fishing in America. In the person of Joseph, Francl, freely, gently, in a new manner, he inquires after the phenomena of the overland pioneer." A separate invitation to a publication party also mentioned Brautigan.

The Pacific Nation 1 Summer 1967
Volume 1 featured, under the title "Trout Fishing in America (1-5)" the first five chapters from Brautigan's upcoming book Trout Fishing in America: "The Cover of Trout Fishing in America," "Knock on Wood (Part One)," "Knock on Wood (Part Two)," "Red Lip," and "The Kool-Aid Wino" (34-40).

Other contributors included Robin Blaser, Jim Herndon, Charles Olsen, George Stanley, and Michael McClure. The front cover featured a drawing by John Button.

Spicer promoted the idea of a "Pacific Nation" comprised of "healthily unlikeminded" people that would extend from San Francisco up the coast to Canada and perhaps as far north as Alaska. The product of this new nation was to be poetry, as was its language (Ellingham and Killian 300-301). An offshoot of this was Pacific Nation, a journal edited by Robin Blaser and published in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The journal was issued in two volumes, the first in 1967 and the second in 1969.

Brautigan referenced Spicer and his notion of a Pacific Nation in his poem, Our Beautiful West Coast Thing.

Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance by Lewis Ellingham provides a definitive biography of Spicer, as well as interesting information about Brautigan.

Spicer died 17 August 1965 in San Francisco from complications associated with alcoholism.

Additional Resources
The Jacket
Provides a "Jack Spicer Chronology" that relates Spicer's life and activities to ongoing world events.

Jack Spicer feature essay in Jacket #7.

Parallel, vol. 1, no. 3, July-August 1966, pp. 10-12.
Published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Edited by Peter Desbarats. Illustrated by Morris Danylewich.

Inspiration for this story came from Brautigan's reimagining of what folksingers call a "floater verse," a lyric easily transposed into different songs. For example, the lines "I'd rather live in some dark holler / where the sun refused to shine . . ." were used in at least two Appalachian folk songs: "Little Maggie" and "Hard, Ain't It Hard." Brautigan noted these lines in his notebook, and then changed them to "where the wild birds of heaven / can't hear me when I whine." These lines became the basis for his story.

Desbarats notes Brautigan on "The Editor's Page, saying, "The West Coast below Vancouver is also the home of Richard Brautigan, a young American writer, whose short story "The Wild Birds of Heaven" appears in this issue. His first novel is being published by Grove Press in New York."

Feedback from Denis R. Robillard
I received a telephone call late this afternoon from Peter Desbarats in London. He is a retired Journalism professor from University of Western Ontario. He also wrote several books and plied his early journalism trade in Montreal both with TV and print media. In 2006 he was the recipient of a Order of Canada medal.

Desbarats comes from a long line of printers. His ancestor George was Queens Printer and also edited the Illustrated News in Montreal for a couple of decades. His partner in this outfit was Leggo. George Desbarats later went on to buy some land around Sault Ste. Marie known as the Desbarats Territory and had interest in some mines there.

Peter called me in response to a letter I sent him in London in September. I was trying to track down the connection that he may have had to a Montreal magazine which published Richard Brautigan's short story "The Wild Birds of Heaven" in 1966.

Here is what he told me over the telephone.

Peter had been doing some freelance work in Montreal when he was approached by Douglas Cohen, a real estate broker and lawyer from Montreal, who wanted to launch a literary magazine which would have international scope and reach.

Cohen wanted Desbarats to be the editor of this fledgling outfit. The managing editor was a woman from the United States who had experience with magazines. Their advertising was handled by a retired ad man named Peter Mathiews.

In 1966, the first issue of Parallel came out. The issue in which Brautigan's story appeared was the August 1966 issue, Volume 1 Number 3 which ran to 58 pages.

On The Editor's Page Desbarats dedicated a few lines to Brautigan saying he was a young American writer who was soon publishing his first novel under Grove Press.

Desbarats didn't remember the press run by says that about 10,000 copies of Parallel sold in Montreal and other city centers.

Parallel was published in the mezzanine area of a building complex owned by Douglas Cohen, which happened to house a beauty shop. Desbarats told Cohen to leave the cosmetology equipment there and he and other staff members worked around it to produce Parallel.
— Denis R. Robillard. Email to John F. Barber, 28 October 2008.

"A Happy but Footsore Writer Celebrates His Driver's Block": People Weekly, 8 June 1981
Brautigan is credited as the author of this article, but it actually stems from interviews by Cheryl McCall.

The first publication of this long piece by Brautigan on why he hates cars. Inludes three photographs of Brautigan by Roger Ressmeyer, taken Saturday, 21 March 1981 in San Francisco.

"Little Memoirs: Three Tales by Richard Brautigan." Playboy, vol. 17, no. 12, December 1970, pp. 164-165.

First publication of three Brautigan stories: "Corporal," "The Literary Life in California/1964," and "Halloween in Denver."

Ogar, Richard, editor. The Poet's Eye: A Tribute to Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Books. The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1997, pp. 61-63.

Background
This book associated with the Symposium and 49th Annual Meeting of The Friends of Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, California, 12-13 April 1996. The theme was "Ferlinghetti, City Lights Books, and the Beats in San Francisco: From the Margins to the Mainstream."

First publication of Brautigan's poems "Poem for Michael McClure" and "Rainy Gary Snyder Poetry Reading Night," as well as a poem titled "Remembering City Lights" by Brautigan's daughter Ianthe.

Poet Michael McClure and Brautigan were good friends. LEARN more.

S. A. Griffith, a Los Angeles, California, poet, actor, and one of the founding members of Carma Bums, a group of touring poets, wrote a description of the event.

Poetry, vol. cvx, no. 1, Oct. 1969, p. 30.
Published by October House, Inc., New York, NY

Fisrt publication of Brautigan's poem "Wood." This was his only appearance in this journal, founded by Harriet Monroe with help from Ezra Pound in 1912.

Quest/77, vol. 1, no. 5, Nov./Dec. 1977, p. 108.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "On the Elevator Going Down."

R. C. Lion, no. 2, 1966, pp. 4-5.
8.5" x 11"; 26 pages; Mimeographed sheets; stapled; Cover same stock as interior pages;
Published by the University of California, Berkeley Rhymers Club, Berkeley, California. Subtitled "The Magazine That Submerges Periodically" and called variously Our Sea Lion or Ah, Sue Lyon.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Pretty Office."

Only three issues. Edited by David Bromige, Sherril Jaffe, David Schaff, and Ron Loewinsohn. This issued featured work by Anselm Hollo, Richard Brautigan, David Schaff, Jo Marsten, Ted Berrigan, David Bromige, Ross Angier, Sherril Jaffe, Bob May, Red Baren, David Schaff (again), Johannes Amicus, Jim St. Jim, and Ron Loewinsohn, in that order.

Ramparts, vol. 6, no. 5, December 1967, pp. 43-45.

First publication of Brautigan's story "1/3, 1/3, 1/3" and a photograph by Baron Wolman of Brautigan, one of several he took in 1967 for publicity. Also included was a review by Stephen Schneck of Trout Fishing in America. Schneck participated on the Creative Arts Conference program with Brautigan in August 1969.

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First publication of Brautigan's poem "Rendezvous."

The Register-Guard, 24 Aug. 1953, p. 8A.
Eugene, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan"

First publication of the Brautigan poem, "A Cigarette Butt."

Rolling Stone, no. 24, 21 December 1968, p. 24.

First publication of three Brautigan stories: "Crazy Old Women Are Riding the Buses of America Today," "Fame in California," "A Need for Gardens."

The title of "Fame in Califorina" was changed to "Fame in California/1964" and when it was collected in Revenge of the Lawn.

Rolling Stone, no. 25, 4 January 1969, p. 30.
First publication of two Brautigan stories: "The Ghost Children of Tacoma" and "Lint."

Rolling Stone, no. 26, 1 February 1969, p. 26.

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Short History of Oregon."

Rolling Stone, no. 27, 15 February 1969, 10.
This issue focused on Groupies, females (generally) who followed and attempted to attract the attentions of rock musicians.

First publication of Brautigan's story "I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone."

Rolling Stone, no. 28, 1 March 1969, p. 30.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Holiday in Germany."

Rolling Stone, no. 29, 15 March 1969, p. 25.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Forgiven."

Rolling Stone, no. 30, 5 April 1969, p. 28.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Elmira."

Rolling Stone, no. 31, 19 April 1969, p. 8.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The View from the Dog Tower."

Rolling Stone, vol. 32, 3 May 1969, p. 29.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Not The Way," later collected in Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt as "Love's Not the Way to Treat a Friend."

Rolling Stone, no. 33, 17 May 1969, p. 12.

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Complete Movie of Germany and Japan." Title changed to "A Complete History of Germany and Japan" when it was collected in Revenge of the Lawn.

Rolling Stone, no. 36, 28 June 1969, p. 38.

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Short Story about Contemporary Life in California."

Rolling Stone, no. 39, 9 August 1969, p. 37.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Memory of a Girl."

Rolling Stone, no. 41, 6 September 1969, p. 30.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Women When They Put Their Clothes On in the Morning."

Rolling Stone, no. 42, 20 September 1969, p 25.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Pale Marble Movie."

Rolling Stone, no. 48, 13 December 1969, p. 40.
First publication of two Brautigan stories: "Ernest Hemingway's Typist" and "A High Building in Singapore."

Link, Terry. "Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork." Rolling Stone, no. 60, 11 June 1970, p. 26.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Your Love."

Background
Brautigan read this poem at a poetry reading at the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco, 7 May 1970. Link reviewed the reading. LEARN more.

Rolling Stone, no. 61, 25 June 1970, p. 11.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Atlantisburg."

Rolling Stone, no. 63, 23 July 1970, p. 15.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Greyhound Tragedy."

Rolling Stone, no. 67, 15 October 1970, p. 22.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Getting to Know Each Other."

San Francisco Express Times, vol. 1, no. 27, 24 July 1968, p. 7.
Published weekly from 24 January 1968 (vol. 1, no. 1) to 24 December 1968 (vol. 1, no. 49) as San Francisco Express Times. Continued after as Good Times. Published at 15 Lafayette Street, San Francisco by the Trystero Company. Printed by Waller Press.

First Publication of Brautigan's poem "Mouths That Kissed in the Hot Ashes of Pompeii"

San Francisco Keeper's Voice, vol. 1, no. 4, Apr. 1965, p. 6.
8.5" x 11", eight pages

Background
San Francisco Keeper's Voice featured illustrations, news, entertainment, and other information of interest to the animal keepers at the San Francisco Zoo and other interested readers. Published by Alexander Weiss, San Francisco, California. First volume appeared January 1965.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "October 2, 1960" appeared on the "Permanent Page of Particular Poetry." Biographical note reads
Richard Brautigan is a San Francisco poet and writer whose novel, A Confederate General from Big Sur, has recently been published by Grove Press.

The San Francisco Poets. Edited by David Meltzer. Ballantine Books, 1971, pp. 293-97, 304-305.

First publication of Brautigan's essay "Old Lady." Also reprints six poems by Brautigan from Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt: "Jules Verne Zucchini," "Propelled by Portals Whose Only Shame," "Donner Party," "In Her Sweetness Where She Folds My Wounds," "The Elbow of a Dead Duck," "As the Bruises Fade, the Lightning Aches" and a bibliographical checklist prepared by Brautigan. One of several reference books focusing on Brautigan.

The San Francisco Public Library: A Publishing House, 5 Dec. 1968, p 2.
Three wet process legal-size photocopy pages (8.5" x 14"); stapled; self-produced by Victor Moscoso, Jack Thibeau, and Brautigan.

The first page features Thibeau's contibution, a photocopy of his stomach and chest with decorative cut out stars. Thibeau's "signature" appears top center of the page, formed by the cut out typed phrase "Jack Thibeau" crossed by the cut out typed word "xeroxed."

In the center of the page, formed from typed and cut pieces of paper, appear the publication credits, prepared by Brautigan.
"The San Francisco Public Library:
A Publishing House

"This magazine was created and Xeroxed at the Main Library in the Civic Center using their ten cent Xerox machine on December 5, 1968 by: Victor Moscoso, Jack Thibeau, Richard Brautigan."

The first publication of Brautigan's poem "Mrs. Myrtle Tate, Movie Projectionist" appears on the second page, typed on white paper, cut out, and centered over a newspaper page featuring movie advertising.

Brautigan's handwritten signature appears in the upper left corner of the sheet, over the advertisement for the Orpheum Cinerama.

The entire event was planned and directed by Brautigan, who was intrigued with the idea of immediate publishing as a new form of public performance. Brautigan invited Thibeau and Moscoso to participate. Each was encouraged to produce a page, designed however they wished. Brautigan encouraged them to be creative. As part of his planning, Brautigan typed "This is one of seven numbered and signed copies" on seven separate small sheets of paper. Below each statement he typed a number. These statements were printed on seven copies of his page, each of which he signed. Thibeau and Moscoso signed copies of their pages as well. Brautigan compiled the three pages into little books, stapling each together. Allegedly, no more than twenty little books were made.

The event was photograhed by Edmund Shea, who produced three contact sheets of 35mm thumbnails of his photographs, thirty-six total. His photographs included the authors, other participants and onlookers, the ten cent copy machine, the Siamese cat Xenobia (belonging to Valerie Estes who accompanied Brautigan to the library and is seen in several of the photographs; Estes was given Xenobia as a Christmas present in 1967 by ex-husband Bob Morrill; Estes recounts a story involving Brautigan, cats, Lauren Sears, and Pat Ferraro), and the signing of copies.

The University of Virginia Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library website maintains a multimedia presentation of "Sixties Memorabilia" including this poster and Brautigan's "San Francisco Public Library: A Publishing House."

San Francisco Review, vol. 2, Spring 1959 p. 63.
6" x 9"; 88 pages; paperback with printed wrappers.

Also featured work by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, William Saroyan, James Broughton, and others. San Francisco Review was published in San Francisco, California, Winter 1958 (Volume #1) through September 1962 (Volume #13).

San Francisco Stories 1979
Paperback, with printed wrappers; 59 pages.
Edited by George Matchette, Robert Monson, and Charles Rubin.
Published in San Francisco, California. First issue of a biannual magazine of "Short Fiction by Bay Area Writers."

First publication of three stories by Brautigan: "Skylab at the Graves of Abbott and Costello," "Al's Rose Harbor," and "Waking Up Again." Also featured original works by Michael Rubin, Annette Dozier, Yuri Kageyama, Barry Gifford, Ray Scippa, and Jane Nudelman.

Sum, no. 3, May 1964, p. 23.
Subtitled "A Newsletter of Current Workings."
7" x 8.5"; 33 pages counting inside front and back covers
Mimeographed, folded and stapled
Published in Albuquerque, New Mexico, December 1963 (issue #1) - April 1965 (issue #7)
Edited by Fred Wah of the English Department at the University of New Mexico
Ron Loewinshohn, John Keys, and Ken Irby were contributing editors
"Notes," on the inside front cover say, "Richard Brautigan is copyrighting his prose from San Francisco."

First publication of Brautigan's story "September California."

The complete list of authors are: David Bromige, Robert Duncan, John Wieners, Frank Davey, Drummond Hadley, George Bowering, Carol Berge, David Cull, Jim St. Jim, Denise Levertov, Alan Kimball, Ken Irby, Steven Slavik, Sam Abrams, John Keys, Richard Brautigan, a review of Louis Zukefsky's Found Objects by Fred Wah, Ed Sanders, Paul Blackburn, Sylvester Pollet, Pat **?**, Gael Tunbull, and Fred Wah, in that order.

Totem May 1967.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "At the California Institute of Technology."

Totem was CalTech's literary magazine. Brautigan spent ten days at CalTech with San Francisco poet Andrew Hoyem. They taught workshops and gave readings. LEARN more

Transatlantic Review, vol. 58, no. 59, Feb. 1977, p. 117.
Published in London, England and New York, New York. Edited by J. F. McCrindle.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Bed Salesman."

TriQuarterly, vol. 1, Fall 1964, pp. 62-67.

Featured three chapters from Brautigan's upcoming novel "A Confederate General from Big Sur:" "Breaking Bread at Big Sur," "Preparing for Ecclesiastes," and "The Rivets in Ecclesiastes." Also featured a portfolio of picture-poems by Kenneth Patchen.

"Two Stories by Richard Brautigan." TriQuarterly, no. 5, Winter 1966, pp. 55-59.

First publication of two Brautigan stories: "Revenge of the Lawn" and "A Short History of Religion in California." The latter was inspired by meeting a group of Christians while Brautigan was camping with his 3.5-year-old daughter, Ianthe. Published in Evanston, Illinois.

TriQuarterly, vol. 35, Winter 1976, p. 89.
Published in Evanston, Illinois.
A two-volume set.

First publication of Brautigan's story, "Football," appears in Volume 1.

Vogue, vol. 154, no. 6, 1 October 1969, p. 126.
Written while living with Janice Meissner at 2830 California Street, San Francisco.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Weather in San Francisco."

Vogue, vol. 155, no. 1, 1 January 1970, p. 179.

First publication of "The Auction," Brautigan's story about his impoverished childhood in the Pacific Northwest

Vogue, vol. 156, no. 2, 1 August 1970, p. 98.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Winter Rug,".

Brautigan sent this story, based on an anecdote he heard from friend Bill Brown, to Jory Sherman at Broadside, a men's magazine published in North Hollywood, California, who rejected it saying, "As it stands, there is no way in hell that I can buy this. What you have here is more of a slice of life with very little point as it turns out." Vogue felt differently.

Vogue, vol. 157, no. 3, 1 February 1971, p. 192.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Old Bus."

Vogue, vol. 158, no. 1, July 1971, pp. 96-97.

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Homage to the San Francisco YMCA." When this story was incorporated into Revenge of the Lawn, it was retitled as "Homage to the San Francisco YMCA."

Wild Dog Vol. 18, 17 July 1965, p. 19.
Edited by Joanne Kyger.
Contributing Editor Edward Dorn,
Published at 39 Downey Street, San Francisco, California.

First publication of two poems by Brautigan: "The Buses" and "Period Piece." Also prints "At Sea," Brautigan's review of Michael McClure's Ghost Tantras. Also included work by Gino Clays, Harold Dull, Robert Duncan ("The Gift of Tongues or The Imagination"), Ken Irby, Ron Loewinsohn, Gilbert Sorrentino, Drew Wagnon, and Lewis Warsh.

The World, no. 21, Jan. 1971, n. pg.
Published in New York, New York. Edited by Anne Waldman. Magazine of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery.
8.5" x 14" mimeographed sheets.

First publication of four poems by Brautigan: "Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork," "Two Guys Get Out of a Car," "Punitive Ghosts Like Steam Driven Tennis Courts," and "It's Time To Train Yourself."

a visit from jake, X-Ray, no. 6, Winter 1996.

This excerpt from the upcoming Brautigan novel I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye was originally laid into X-Ray no. 6. This chapbook was reprinted separately later in the same year in an limited edition of 300 numbered and 26 lettered copies. First publication of a Brautigan chapbook entitled "A Visit From Jake", an excerpt from the upcoming Brautigan novel I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye. The chapbook was laid in as a separate item. Later, in the same year, this piece was reissued on its own in an limited edition of 300 numbered and 26 lettered copies.

X-Ray, no. 8, Summer 2001.
Limited edition of 100 lettered and 26 lettered and signed copies
4" x 4" letterpress broadside

Published by X-Ray Book and Novelty Company, Ventura, California, and laid into a 5" x 5" box with several items as an art assemblage. The box itself featured a letterpress wrapper.

First publication of the Brautigan poem "Desire in a Bowl of Potatoes," which was also issued separately
LEARN more at the X-Ray X-Ray Press website.

Also contained several letterpress broadsides featuring work by Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Dan Fante, Billy Childish, Michael Montfort, Bern Porter, Gerald Locklin, A.D. Winans, and others.

X-Ray, no. 9, Summer 2003.
Limited edition of 100 numbered and 26 lettered and signed copies
Published by X-Ray Book and Novelty Company, Ventura, California, and included with a flex-disc, various small broadsides and chapbooks, photographs, and art objects in a 8.5" x 7.75" cardboard box with printed wrap-around band as an art assemblage.

Included in this issue is the first publication of Brautigan's poem "Please" (as a 4" x 4" letterpress broadside) as well as work by Thurston Moore, Charles Bukowski, Dan Fante, Billy Childish, Michael Montfort, Bern Porter, A.D. Winans, and others.

Young America Sings: 1953 Anthology of Northwest States High School Poetry. National High School Poetry Association, 1953, p. 120.
Orange paper wrappers; plastic ring binding; front cover printed in black ink. Published in Los Angeles, California. Poem is part of the "Spring Semester Selections" and appears in the "Places" section. Credit: "Richard Brautigan—Eugene, H[igh]. S[chool]."

First publication of the Brautigan poem, "The Ochoco."

Background
Brautigan was in his final high school year at the time of publication. The Ochoco National Forest is located in north central Oregon, east of the Cascade Mountains. It was created in 1911 from parts of the Deschutes National Forest and is noted for its lakes, rivers, dense evergreen forests, and the magnificent rock formations of the Ochoco Mountains.

Eugene High School News, 19 Dec. 1952, p. 5.
Published under the larger title "Poet's Nook" and the subheading "Creative Writers Express Christmas Spirit." Credit: "Richard Brautigan." Included several poems by faculty and students, as well as Brautigan.

First publication of Brautigan's poem, "The Light."

Background
The Eugene High School News was the newspaper of Brautigan's high school in Eugene, Oregon. LEARN more. This poem was possibly Brautigan's first publication and his first as "Richard Brautigan." Until his final year of high school Brautigan was known as "Porterfield," the surname of his mother's second husband, Robert Geoffrey "Tex" Porterfield. Just before his graduation, he changed his surname from "Porterfield" to "Brautigan" and used that name for the rest of his life. Allegedly, Brautigan met his biological father, Bernard Brautigan, only twice. Bernard contended, upon learning of Brautigan's death, that he never knew he had a son. LEARN more.

The Northwest's Own Magazine, 11 Oct. 1953, p. 10.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Moonlight on a Cemetery."

Background
Part of a full-page feature of Oregon poets with the heading "State Recognizes Oregon Poets: Governor and mayor proclaim observance; work of local writers presented." The brief text, by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian read.

BY PROCLAMATIONS [sic] of Governor Paul Patterson and Portland's Mayor Fred Peterson, Oregon Poetry Day will be observed October 15. This Sunday, as a part of an ambitious program of prescheduled events, Oregonian Verse presents local poets in a featured full-page spread.

The editor regrets a number of fine poems submitted must be held over for a near-future column.

The idea of Poetry Day originated with Lucia Trent, a Texas poet, as a memorial to her poet husband Ralph Cheney. By a 1952 count, 38 states had joined in the movement to honor their poets. This was Oregon's fourth observance.

The Northwest's Own Magazine, 29 Nov. 1953, p. 11.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Part of "Oregonian Verse: First Publication Poetry" edited by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of the Brautigan poem, "Winter Sunset."

The Register-Guard, 24 Aug. 1953, p. 8A.
Eugene, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan"

First publication of the Brautigan poem, "A Cigarette Butt."

Young America Sings: 1953 Anthology of Northwest States High School Poetry. National High School Poetry Association, 1953, p. 120.
Orange paper wrappers; plastic ring binding; front cover printed in black ink. Published in Los Angeles, California. Poem is part of the "Spring Semester Selections" and appears in the "Places" section. Credit: "Richard Brautigan—Eugene, H[igh]. S[chool]."

First publication of the Brautigan poem, "The Ochoco."

Background
Brautigan was in his final high school year at the time of publication. The Ochoco National Forest is located in north central Oregon, east of the Cascade Mountains. It was created in 1911 from parts of the Deschutes National Forest and is noted for its lakes, rivers, dense evergreen forests, and the magnificent rock formations of the Ochoco Mountains.

The Northwest's Own Magazine, 7 Feb. 1954, p. 21.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Part of "Oregonian Verse: First Publication Poetry" edited by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of the Brautigan poem "The Ageless One."

Northwest Roto Magazine, 29 May 1955, p. 9.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Part of "Oregonian Verse: First Publication Poetry" edited by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of the Brautigan poem "So Many Twilights."

Northwest Roto Magazine, 14 Aug. 1955, p. 23.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Part of "Oregonian Verse: First Publication Poetry" edited by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "R. Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of Brautigan's poem "First Star on the Twilight River."

Northwest Roto Magazine, 2 Oct. 1955, p. 14.
Magazine of The Sunday Oregonian. Part of "Oregonian Verse: First Publication Poetry" edited by Ethel Romig Fuller, Poetry Editor, The Oregonian. Published in Portland, Oregon. Credit: "Richard Brautigan, Eugene, Or."

First publication of Brautigan poem "Butterfly's Breath."

Flame, vol. 2, no. 3, Autumn 1955, inside back cover.
Sixteen pages, green wrappers, stapled binding. Edited by Lilith Lorraine. Printed in London, England.

First publication of the Brautigan poem "Someplace in the World a Man is Screaming in Pain."

Background
Flame was published quarterly in Alpine, Texas, 1954-1963. Poems by Lorraine and Brautigan appeared together in the first issue of Danse Macabre in 1957. Brautigan's poem was 15 Stories in One Poem.

Smith, Claude, H. "Gab & Gossip." Fallon Standard, 25 July 1956, p. 6.

Background
First publication of two Brautigan poems, "Storm over Fallon" and "The Breeze." Published in a column titled "Gab & Gossip" written by Claude H. Smith, President of The Fallon Standard, published weekly (every Wednesday) in Fallon, Nevada. As an introduction, Smith wrote.
"When it comes to poetry or other types of literature, we leave to others the appraisal of what's good. Of poetry we are quite shy.

"This page, however, carries two short pieces of blank verse by a newcomer to Fallon, Richard Brautigan. They are local. We like them both. Do you?"

Barney Mergen writes of Brautigan's visit to Reno and Fallon, Nevada, is his memoir "A Strange Boy." LEARN more.

Epos, vol. 8, no. 2, Winter 1956, p. 23.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "The Second Kingdom," inspired by Linda Webster.

Background
Epos was a post-Beat avant-garde poetry magazine published by New Athenaeum Press, Lake Como, Florida. Edited by Evelyn Thorne and Will Tullos. Provided this biographical information concerning Brautigan.

"Richard Brautigan, 21, 'I have been writing poetry since I was 17. Olivant will publish my first book of poems, Tiger in the Telephone Booth. Making paper flowers out of love and death is a disease, but how beautiful it is.'"

Brautigan's reference to Tiger in the Telephone Booth as his first book of poetry comes from his correspondence with D. Vincent Smith, editor of the small literary magazine Olivant. Smith maintained publication offices in Fitzgerald, Georgia, and editorial offices in Japan where he was posted on active military duty. The first issue was published in 1956.

Smith wrote Brautigan in late 1955-early 1956 saying he intended to republish the poem Someplace in the World a Man is Screaming in Pain, published in the Fall 1955 issue of Flame, in the first issue of Olivant. He asked to see a selection of further writing for possible publication in a supplement to Olivant. Brautigan apparently sent Smith a selection of poems.

In July 1956, Smith wrote Brautigan again, saying he intended to publish all of Brautigan's submitted poems in a collection to be titled Tiger in the Telephone Booth. The book was never published. The Return of the Rivers, published in May 1957, is considered Brautigan's first poetry book publication. The poems intended for Tiger in the Telephone Booth were "lost."

The Caxton Poetry Review, vol. 1, no. 2, Winter 1957, p. ***.
Published 7 January 1957.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "A Correction."

Background
The Caxton Review was a quarterly magazine edited by Albert R. Temple and Evelyn T. Browning.

This was Brautigan's first professional publication after moving to San Francisco. His second was If the Wind Should Borrow Time, published in The Caxton Poetry Review, vol. 1, no. 3, Spring 1957, p. 17.

Lawrence Wright says Brautigan, wanting to meet poet Ron Loewinsohn, handed him this poem, which responds to Carl Sandburg's famous poem "Fog" (Wright 34). Wright, Lawrence. "The Life and Death of Richard Brautigan." Rolling Stone, no. 445, 11 Apr. 1985, pp. 29, 31, 34, 36, 38, 40, 59, 61.

Loewinshon said Brautigan handed him "a little notebook. On one page was a poem in this incredible handwriting, a six-year-old's handwriting, which was called 'A Correction' ... . I chuckled, handed the notebook back to him, and he just walked away" (Peter Manso and Michael McClure 65).

The Caxton Poetry Review, vol. 1, no. 3, Spring 1957, p. 17.
24 pages. Side-stapled into letterpress card folder. 191 x 138 mm. Pamphlet. Published 12 April 1957. 50 cents, on cover.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "If the Wind Should Borrow Time."

Background
This twelve-line poem is Brautigan's second professional publication after moving to San Francisco. The first was "A Correction", published in The Caxton Poetry Review, vol. 1, no. 2, Winter 1956.

This was Brautigan's fifteenth appearance in print (at age 22), his sixth outside Oregon (and Nevada), and his fifth outside a newspaper.

The Caxton Review was a quarterly magazine edited by Albert R. Temple and Evelyn T. Browning. Publisher: Caxton Press, Cincinnati, Ohio. No subsequent issues known beyond Number 3. The period July-December 1957.

Berkeley Review, vol. 1, no. 3, 1957, pp. 14-15.
Published 1921 Walnut Street, Berkeley, California, 1956-1957. Edited/published by William P. Barlow, Jr., George Huppert, and C. A. Tong. Published only one volume (with three issues) from Winter 1956 through 1957.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "The Horse That Had A Flat Tire." Also reprints his "The Return of the Rivers." Also featured work by Walter Ballenger, Adrian Stoutenberg, Barbara Cochran, May Swenson, Robert Beloof, Samuel Menashe, Donald Gutierrez, David Cornel DeJong, John Tagliabue, Anthony Ostroff, Richard Wilbur, Richard Eberhart, and Robert Horan.

Epos, vol. 8, no. 4, Summer 1957, p. 6.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "A Young Poet."

Background
Epos was a post-Beat avant-garde poetry magazine published by New Athenaeum Press, Lake Como, Florida. Edited by Will Tullos and Evelyn Thorne.

Hedley, Leslie Woolf, editor. Four New Poets. Inferno Press, 1957, pp. 3-9.
Thirty-four pages. Printed and stapled wrappers. Published Fall 1957.

First publication of four Brautigan poems: "The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth's Beer Bottles," "The Mortuary Bush," "Twelve Roman Soldiers and an Oatmeal Cookies," "Gifts." This was Brautigan's first book appearance prior to his own solely authored book, The Return of the Rivers.

Four New Poets featured poetry by four poets the editor described as "representing an articulate segment of a sometime-called 'silent generation'." Of Brautigan Hedley said, "Richard Brautigan is a young poet who was born January 30, 1935 in Tacoma, Washington. He now lives in San Francisco where he is working on a book of poems, The Horse That Had A Flat Tire."

The other three poets were: Martin Hoberman, Carl Larsen, and James M. Singer. At the time of publication, none of the poets were over the age of 25. Larsen edited Existaria, a Journal of Existant Hysteria, in which, in 1957, Brautigan published two poems: "The Daring Little Guy on the Burma Shave Sign" and "The World Will Never End."

Inferno Press issued 6.5" x 3.5" announcements for the book, printed in blue and gold ink on one side of heavy white paper and illustrated with a gold handprint. The promotional blurb read, "This collection from the work of four young poets, all under 25, presents an interesting contrast that is most refreshing after so much orthodoxy in current American poetry."

Leslie Woolf Hedley also edited a small poetry journal called Inferno. A total of eleven issues were published between 1950 and 1956. "Although Inferno did print a few significant Bay Area poets, the editorial bent seemed to be primarily international anonymity" (Eloyde Tovey 31).

Mainstream, vol. 2, no. 2, Summer-Autumn 1957, p. 14.
5" x 9". 63 pages. Bound in titled, over-laid wraps.
Subtitled "A Quarterly Journal of Poetry, The Arts and Contemporary Comment." This issue labeled the "San Francisco Issue."

First publication of the Brautigan poem "The Final Ride."

Background
Mainstream was edited by Robin Raey Cuscaden and Ronald Offen. Published published at 17 South Cedar Street, Palatine, Illinois, by Jack R. Lander. Ceased publication with Volume 2, Number 3, Winter 1958.

Existaria, a Journal of Existant Hysteria, vol. 7, Sep.-Oct. 1957, p. 14.

Background
First publication of two poems by Brautigan: "The Daring Little Guy on the Burma Shave Sign" and "The World Will Never End." The second stanza of "The World Will Never End" was reprinted in 1959 as "The Sink." "The Sink."

Existaria, a Journal of Existant Hysteria was edited by Carl Larsen. Published at 328 Palm Drive, Hermosa Beach, California. Printed by Ottumwa Duplicating Service, Ottumwa, Iowa. Ceased publication with Volume #7, September/October 1957. Larsen was one of the poets included, along with Brautigan, in the book Four New Poets. Learn more.

Also included work by O. W. Crane, Jed Garrick, Charles Bukowski, Rozana Webb, Joseph Martinek, Cerise Farallon, Fred Cogswell, E. W. Northnagel, Claudia Archuletta, Clarence Major, Apollinaire, John Charles Chadwick, Rockwell B. Schaefer, and Judson Crews.

Danse Macabre, vol. 1, no. 1, 1957, pp. 18-19.

Background
First publication of two Brautigan poems: "They Keep Coming Down the Dark Streets" and "15 Stories in One Poem."

Danse Macabre, Edited and published by R. T. Baylor, began publication in 1957, and was published quarterly at 653 12th Street, Manhattan Beach, California. Printed by Ottumwa Duplicating Service, Ottumwa, Iowa.

This issue also featured work by Orma McCormick, Richard Dwyer, Lilith Lorraine, Judson Crews, James Boyer May, and Carl Larsen, who edited the journal Existaria, a Journal of Existant Hysteria in which Brautigan published two poems: "The Daring Little Guy on the Burma Shave Sign" and "The World Will Never End" in 1957. Larsen was also one of the poets included, along with Brautigan, in the book Four New Poets. Learn more. Lilith Lorraine edited the journal Flame in which Brautigan published the poem "Someplace in the World a Man is Screaming in Pain" in 1955.

Epos, vol. 9, no. 3, Spring 1958, pp. 20-21.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Kingdon Come."

Epos was a post-Beat avant-garde poetry magazine published by New Athenaeum Press, Lake Como, Florida. Edited by Will Tullos and Evelyn Thorne.

San Francisco Review, vol. 2, Spring 1959 p. 63.
6" x 9"; 88 pages; paperback with printed wrappers.

Also featured work by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, William Saroyan, James Broughton, and others. San Francisco Review was published in San Francisco, California, Winter 1958 (Volume #1) through September 1962 (Volume #13).

Beatitude, no. 1, 9 May 1959, n. pg.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets with illustrated front cover of construction paper; No back cover.

Background
First publication of the Brautigan poem "The Whorehouse at the Top of Mount Rainier."

Also featured work by William J. Margolis, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, Monty Pike, B. Uronovitz, Robert Stock, Dave DeSilver, Bob Hartman, Mark Green, Carol Mann, John Richardson, Pierre Henri Delattre, Lew Gardner, and Joe Gould.

Beatitude was a San Francisco beatnik magazine founded by poets Bob Kaufman, John Kelly, and William J. Margolis. Issues 1-7 published weekly at 14 Bannam Alley. Issues 8 until cessation of publication at the end of the year were published monthly at the Bread and Wine Mission, 510 Greenwich Street, San Francisco, California.

Beatitude, vol. 4, 30 May 1959.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets with illustrated front cover.

Background
First publication of four Brautigan poems: "The American Submarine," "A Postcard from the Bridge," "That Girl," and "The Sink."

"The Sink", reprints the second stanza of Brautigan's 1957 poem "The World Will Never End."

Also featured work by Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, Ruth Weiss, Richard McBride, Stan Persky, and William Margolis.

Beatitude was a San Francisco beatnik magazine founded by poets Bob Kaufman, John Kelly, and William J. Margolis. Issues 1-7 published weekly at 14 Bannam Alley. Issues 8 until cessation of publication at the end of the year were published monthly at the Bread and Wine Mission, 510 Greenwich Street, San Francisco, California.

Beatitude vol. 9, 18 Sep. 1959.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets with illustrated front cover.

Background
First publication of the Brautigan poem "Swandragons." This issue also featured work by Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, David Meltzer, Bob Kaufman, William Margolis, Ron Padgett, Barbara Moraff, Richard McBride, Peter Orlovsky, and Philip Lamantia.

Beatitude was a San Francisco beatnik magazine founded by poets Bob Kaufman, John Kelly, and William J. Margolis. Issues 1-7 published weekly at 14 Bannam Alley. Issues 8 until cessation of publication at the end of the year were published monthly at the Bread and Wine Mission, 510 Greenwich Street, San Francisco, California.

J, no. 1, Sep. 1959, p. n. pg.
Printed on 8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets.
J magazine was privately published in San Francisco, California, 1959-1961, eight issues. Edited by Jack Spicer and George Stanley. Also featured work by Robert Duncan, James Alexander, Ebbe Borregaard, Robin Blaser, Jack Spicer, Joe Dunn, Sam the Tenor Man, and Kay Johnson.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "The Fever Monument."

Foot, no.1, September 1959.
Published in San Francisco, California. Edited by Richard Duerdan. Cover art of a pair of human feet by Robert Duncan.

First publication of five poems by Brautigan: "The Rape of Ophelia," "Postcard from Chinatown," "The Nature Poem," "Horse Race," "The Last Music is Not Heard." Also featured work by [Burgess] Jess Collins, Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Philip Whalen, Gary Snyder, and others.

J, no. 4, Nov. 1959.
Printed on 8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets; 16 pages. Hand-colored blue and green illustration on front cover.
J magazine was privately published in San Francisco, California, 1959-1961, eight issues. Edited by Jack Spicer and George Stanley.

First publication of three poems by Brautigan: "The Pumpkin Tide ," "The Sidney Greenstreet Blues," and "Surprise."

Also featured work by Robert Duncan, Joanne Kyger, Josef Elias, Donald Merriam Allen, John Ryan, Jack Spicer, George Stanley, and Wallace Allen.

J, no. 5, December 1959.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets. Front cover illustrated with a hand-colored gold border.
J magazine was privately published in San Francisco, California, 1959-1961, eight issues. Edited by Jack Spicer and George Stanley.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "1942" as well as work by L. Frank Baum, Larry Eigner, [Burgess] Jess Collins, Ron Loewinsohn, George Stanley, Robert Duncan, Richard Duerden, and Jack Spicer. LEARN more.

Hearse: A Vehicle Used to Convey the Dead, vol. 9, 1961, p. 4.

First publication of the Brautigan poem "The Rain." "The Rain."

Background
Published at 3118 K. Street, Eureka, California. Seventeen issues, 1957-1972. Edited by E. V. Griffith who described Hearse as ". . . an irreverant quarterly, carrying poetry, prose artwork and incidental cadaver to the Great Cemetery of the American Intellect. . ."

"Trout Fishing in America." City Lights Journal, no. 1, 1963, pp. 27-32.
112 pages; Paperback, perfect bound with printed wrappers. Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA. Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Front cover photograph by Gary Snyder of Allen Ginsberg in the Central Himalayas. Dedicated to e. e. cummings and William Carlos Williams.

Featured three chapters from Brautigan's upcoming book "Trout Fishing in America" : "Worsewick," "The Salt Creek Coyotes," and "A Half-Sunday Homage to a Whole Leonardo da Vinci." Also featured a photograph of Brautigan. These three chapters are the earliest known publication of any part of the novel Trout Fishing in America.

In addition to this work by Brautigan, this issue also featured works by W. C. Williams, Anselm Hollo, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Daniel Moore, Ed Sanders, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Harold Norse, Ted Joans, Michael McClure, Stuart Z. Perkofff, Mayakovsky (translated by Hirschman and Erlich), Henri Michaux (translated by Corman), Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Antonin Artaud (translated by Rattray), and Bruce Conner. Poetry by Daniel Moore and Harold Norse was included in the first paperback collections published by Grove Press in 1957.

Of Brautigan, Barry Silesky said, "Also included was fiction writer Richard Brautigan, who had been writing and reading his poetry around North Beach since the fifties, even selling copies ... for small change on street corners. Three sections of Brautigan's strange, inviting, deceptively simple Trout Fishing in America appeared; it was an important early exposure for him that helped open the way to a wider audience, and to publication of that novel in 1967, as well as his previously written comic Confederate General in [sic] Big Sur in 1964. Both of them became best-sellers, and by the late sixties, Brautigan's following had grown from a tiny cult to a huge section of the swelling counterculture, rivaling that of Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti himself" (Barry Silesky 122).

Change, 1963, n. pg.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Coffee."

The only issue of Brautigan's own literary journal, edited with Ron Loewinsohn, Change. Also called Change, the Fastest Car on Earth (Peter Manso and Michael McClure 65). Mimeographed sheets (8.5" x 11") with a photograph of Loewinsohn and Brautigan on the front cover. Published in San Francisco, California.

"Trout Fishing in America." Evergreen Review, no. 31, Oct.-Nov. 1963, pp.12-27.

Featured four chapters from Brautigan's upcoming novel: "The Hunchback Trout," "Room 208, Hotel Trout Fishing in America," "The Surgeon," and "The Cleveland Wrecking Yard." Also featured work by Anselm Hollo, Pauline Reage, Andrei Voznesensky, Lenore Kandel, Harold Norse, Robert Coover, W. S. Merwin, Jack Kerouac, and Douglas Woolf.

Evergreen Review, published in New York, NY, 1957-1973, was edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriman Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

Kulchur, no. 13, Spring 1964, pp. 51-55.
Published in New York, New York spring 1960 (issue #1) through winter 1965 (issue #20) and offered serious commentary or criticism about literature, film, politics, and music. This issue (no. 13) was edited by Lita Hornick, Frank O'Hara (art), and Leroi Jones (music).

First publication of the Brautigan story "The Post Offices of Eastern Oregon."

Contributing editors: Charles Olson, Gilbert Sorrentino, A. B. Spellman, and Bill Berks. Authors include Allen Ginsberg ("The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express July 18, 1963"), Gilbert Sorrentino ("The Art of Hubert Selby"), Pauline Kael ("Film Review"), Warren Tallman ("Robert Creeley's Portrait of the Artist"), Allan Kaplan, and Joe LeSuer.
The front cover photograph was taken from Andy Warhol's movie The Kiss (1963, 54 minutes).

Lita Hornick, editor, recounts the contents saying that in Kulchur 13, "Richard Brautigan, then a relatively unknown writer, contributed a characteristic piece of fiction called "The Post Offices of Eastern Oregon" (Hornick. "Kulchur: Memoir." TriQuarterly, no. 43, Fall, 1978, pp. 280-297).

Sum, no. 3, May 1964, p. 23.
Subtitled "A Newsletter of Current Workings."
7" x 8.5"; 33 pages counting inside front and back covers
Mimeographed, folded and stapled
Published in Albuquerque, New Mexico, December 1963 (issue #1) - April 1965 (issue #7)
Edited by Fred Wah of the English Department at the University of New Mexico
Ron Loewinshohn, John Keys, and Ken Irby were contributing editors
"Notes," on the inside front cover say, "Richard Brautigan is copyrighting his prose from San Francisco."

First publication of Brautigan's story "September California."

The complete list of authors are: David Bromige, Robert Duncan, John Wieners, Frank Davey, Drummond Hadley, George Bowering, Carol Berge, David Cull, Jim St. Jim, Denise Levertov, Alan Kimball, Ken Irby, Steven Slavik, Sam Abrams, John Keys, Richard Brautigan, a review of Louis Zukefsky's Found Objects by Fred Wah, Ed Sanders, Paul Blackburn, Sylvester Pollet, Pat **?**, Gael Tunbull, and Fred Wah, in that order.

"Trout Fishing in America" 2." Evergreen Review, no. 33, Aug.-Sept. 1964, pp. 42-47.

Featured five chapters from Brautigan's upcoming novel: "Witness for Trout Fishing in America Peace," "A Note on the Camping Craze That is Currently Sweeping America," "The Pudding Master of Stanley Basin," "In the California Bush," and "Trout Death by Port Wine." Also featured work by John Fowles, Robert Gover, Blaise Cendrars (translated by Anselm Hollo), Jakov Lind, Michael O'Donoghue, Julian Beck, Judith Malina, Jack Kerouac, Lysander Kemp, Alden Van Buskirk, and Harold Pinter.

Evergreen Review, published in New York, NY, 1957-1973, was edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriman Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

TriQuarterly, vol. 1, Fall 1964, pp. 62-67.

Featured three chapters from Brautigan's upcoming novel "A Confederate General from Big Sur:" "Breaking Bread at Big Sur," "Preparing for Ecclesiastes," and "The Rivets in Ecclesiastes." Also featured a portfolio of picture-poems by Kenneth Patchen.

San Francisco Keeper's Voice, vol. 1, no. 4, Apr. 1965, p. 6.
8.5" x 11", eight pages

Background
San Francisco Keeper's Voice featured illustrations, news, entertainment, and other information of interest to the animal keepers at the San Francisco Zoo and other interested readers. Published by Alexander Weiss, San Francisco, California. First volume appeared January 1965.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "October 2, 1960" appeared on the "Permanent Page of Particular Poetry." Biographical note reads
Richard Brautigan is a San Francisco poet and writer whose novel, A Confederate General from Big Sur, has recently been published by Grove Press.

Wild Dog Vol. 18, 17 July 1965, p. 19.
Edited by Joanne Kyger.
Contributing Editor Edward Dorn,
Published at 39 Downey Street, San Francisco, California.

First publication of two poems by Brautigan: "The Buses" and "Period Piece." Also prints "At Sea," Brautigan's review of Michael McClure's Ghost Tantras. Also included work by Gino Clays, Harold Dull, Robert Duncan ("The Gift of Tongues or The Imagination"), Ken Irby, Ron Loewinsohn, Gilbert Sorrentino, Drew Wagnon, and Lewis Warsh.

Now Now, no. 2, 1965, n. pg.
Counterculture magazine published in San Francisco, California, by Ari Publications from 1963 (issue #1) to 1965 (issue #3).

First publication of Brautigan's story "Banners of My Own Choosing."

Now Now was edited by Charles Plymell who said, "I sat with Richard Brautigan in some of the new head shops and discussed the scene. He had a sense of what the new generation liked to hear. I took some of his poems to publish in an issue of Now magazine (289). . . . It was the time of nude parties and free love, when women's bodies were painted on. The last time I saw Richard Brautigan was at such a party" (Plymell 292-293). Plymell also printed the first issues of Zap comic with illustrations by Robert Crumb. Other contributors included Philip Whalen, Bruce Conner, Wallace Berman (collage), Allen Ginsberg, Lew Welch, Michael Bowen (collage), George Herms, and Dennis Hopper.

"Two Stories by Richard Brautigan." TriQuarterly, no. 5, Winter 1966, pp. 55-59.

First publication of two Brautigan stories: "Revenge of the Lawn" and "A Short History of Religion in California." The latter was inspired by meeting a group of Christians while Brautigan was camping with his 3.5-year-old daughter, Ianthe. Published in Evanston, Illinois.

Parallel, vol. 1, no. 3, July-August 1966, pp. 10-12.
Published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Edited by Peter Desbarats. Illustrated by Morris Danylewich.

Inspiration for this story came from Brautigan's reimagining of what folksingers call a "floater verse," a lyric easily transposed into different songs. For example, the lines "I'd rather live in some dark holler / where the sun refused to shine . . ." were used in at least two Appalachian folk songs: "Little Maggie" and "Hard, Ain't It Hard." Brautigan noted these lines in his notebook, and then changed them to "where the wild birds of heaven / can't hear me when I whine." These lines became the basis for his story.

Desbarats notes Brautigan on "The Editor's Page, saying, "The West Coast below Vancouver is also the home of Richard Brautigan, a young American writer, whose short story "The Wild Birds of Heaven" appears in this issue. His first novel is being published by Grove Press in New York."

Feedback from Denis R. Robillard
I received a telephone call late this afternoon from Peter Desbarats in London. He is a retired Journalism professor from University of Western Ontario. He also wrote several books and plied his early journalism trade in Montreal both with TV and print media. In 2006 he was the recipient of a Order of Canada medal.

Desbarats comes from a long line of printers. His ancestor George was Queens Printer and also edited the Illustrated News in Montreal for a couple of decades. His partner in this outfit was Leggo. George Desbarats later went on to buy some land around Sault Ste. Marie known as the Desbarats Territory and had interest in some mines there.

Peter called me in response to a letter I sent him in London in September. I was trying to track down the connection that he may have had to a Montreal magazine which published Richard Brautigan's short story "The Wild Birds of Heaven" in 1966.

Here is what he told me over the telephone.

Peter had been doing some freelance work in Montreal when he was approached by Douglas Cohen, a real estate broker and lawyer from Montreal, who wanted to launch a literary magazine which would have international scope and reach.

Cohen wanted Desbarats to be the editor of this fledgling outfit. The managing editor was a woman from the United States who had experience with magazines. Their advertising was handled by a retired ad man named Peter Mathiews.

In 1966, the first issue of Parallel came out. The issue in which Brautigan's story appeared was the August 1966 issue, Volume 1 Number 3 which ran to 58 pages.

On The Editor's Page Desbarats dedicated a few lines to Brautigan saying he was a young American writer who was soon publishing his first novel under Grove Press.

Desbarats didn't remember the press run by says that about 10,000 copies of Parallel sold in Montreal and other city centers.

Parallel was published in the mezzanine area of a building complex owned by Douglas Cohen, which happened to house a beauty shop. Desbarats told Cohen to leave the cosmetology equipment there and he and other staff members worked around it to produce Parallel.
— Denis R. Robillard. Email to John F. Barber, 28 October 2008.

Evergreen Review, no, 42, Aug. 1966, pp. 30-32, 86.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Menu" (which was later collected under the name "The Menu/1965") where he discussed the menu served to San Quentin Death Row prisoners saying, "It's so stark, so real . . . it's like a poem. This menu alone condemns our society. To feed somebody this kind of food who is already effectively dead represents all the incongruity of the whole damn thing. It's senseless."

Editor Robert Sherrill contacted Brautigan in March 1965 and saying he wanted a story about death row. Sherrill wanted a story based on facts, but told with fictional techniques and Brautigan's point of view, a funny story pointing to the absurdity rather than the horror of the lives of those livingon death row. Esquire offered US$600.00, plus expenses, plus a US$200.00 guarantee in case they refused the story. Brautigan contacted Associate Warden in charge of press relations James Park, 1 April asking if he might visit San Quentin death row. Brautigan rode a bus from San Francisco to San Quentin in Marin County. Brautigan filled fourteen pages in his notebook with notes about the condemed men and their last words. He was interested in what the men of death row ate regularly. Warden Park gave him a copy of the menu listing everything the men on death row could eat the week of 12-18 April 1965. Back in San Francisco, Brautigan shared his notes and observations with Zekial Marko (the "aspiring Hollywood scriptwriter" noted in the story), Philip Whalen, Lew Welch, and others. He incorporated several of their remarks into his final story which he sent to Sherrill before the end of the month. Brautigan included the actual menu, as a piece of found art, in the middle of his story. Sherrill edited Brautigan's story, but then declined to publish it in Esquire. Brautigan placed Sherrill's edited version in Evergreen Review the following year.

Evergreen Review, published in New York, New York, 1957-1973, was edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriam Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

O'er, no. 2, December 1966, pp. 107-109.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets of different colored construction paper; 128 pages; staple binding
Published in San Francisco, California, by Cranium Press.
Edited by David Sandberg.
Called variously Awwr, O'er, and Oar at different points of this issue. First issue appeared April 1966 and was titled or #1.

First publication of three poems by Brautigan: "The House" and "My Nose is Growing Old" and "November 3." Each poem appeared on a separate page. "My Nose is Growing Old" and "November 3" were collected in All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. The poem "The House" was not included in any collection. In addition to Brautigan's poems, this issue also featured a full-page advertisement for The Galilee Hitch-Hiker to be published by Oar, complete with made up blurbs promoting the book. Also included contributions by Jack Spicer, Lew Welch, Anselm Hollo, John Sinclair, Clark Coolidge, and others.

R. C. Lion, no. 2, 1966, pp. 4-5.
8.5" x 11"; 26 pages; Mimeographed sheets; stapled; Cover same stock as interior pages;
Published by the University of California, Berkeley Rhymers Club, Berkeley, California. Subtitled "The Magazine That Submerges Periodically" and called variously Our Sea Lion or Ah, Sue Lyon.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Pretty Office."

Only three issues. Edited by David Bromige, Sherril Jaffe, David Schaff, and Ron Loewinsohn. This issued featured work by Anselm Hollo, Richard Brautigan, David Schaff, Jo Marsten, Ted Berrigan, David Bromige, Ross Angier, Sherril Jaffe, Bob May, Red Baren, David Schaff (again), Johannes Amicus, Jim St. Jim, and Ron Loewinsohn, in that order.

Coyote's Journal, no. 5/6, 1966, p. 81.
116 pages

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Study in California Flowers".

Imprint varies. Number 1-4 published in Eugene, Oregon; number 5-8 in San Francisco, California by City Lights; Number 9- in Berkeley, CA by Book People; Number 11 in Brunswick, Maine by Coyote Books; Number 12 in Brattleboro, Vermont by Coyote Books.

Totem May 1967.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "At the California Institute of Technology."

Totem was CalTech's literary magazine. Brautigan spent ten days at CalTech with San Francisco poet Andrew Hoyem. They taught workshops and gave readings. LEARN more

The Pacific Nation 1 Summer 1967
Volume 1 featured, under the title "Trout Fishing in America (1-5)" the first five chapters from Brautigan's upcoming book Trout Fishing in America: "The Cover of Trout Fishing in America," "Knock on Wood (Part One)," "Knock on Wood (Part Two)," "Red Lip," and "The Kool-Aid Wino" (34-40).

Other contributors included Robin Blaser, Jim Herndon, Charles Olsen, George Stanley, and Michael McClure. The front cover featured a drawing by John Button.

Spicer promoted the idea of a "Pacific Nation" comprised of "healthily unlikeminded" people that would extend from San Francisco up the coast to Canada and perhaps as far north as Alaska. The product of this new nation was to be poetry, as was its language (Ellingham and Killian 300-301). An offshoot of this was Pacific Nation, a journal edited by Robin Blaser and published in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The journal was issued in two volumes, the first in 1967 and the second in 1969.

Brautigan referenced Spicer and his notion of a Pacific Nation in his poem, Our Beautiful West Coast Thing.

Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance by Lewis Ellingham provides a definitive biography of Spicer, as well as interesting information about Brautigan.

Spicer died 17 August 1965 in San Francisco from complications associated with alcoholism.

Additional Resources
The Jacket
Provides a "Jack Spicer Chronology" that relates Spicer's life and activities to ongoing world events.

Jack Spicer feature essay in Jacket #7.

"The Cleveland Wrecking Yard." The New Writing in the USA. Edited by Donald Merriam Allen and Robert Creeley. Penguin, 1967, pp. 33-38.

Features chapters from Brautigan's upcoming book Trout Fishing in America

Nice, vol. 1, no. 1, 1967, n. pg.
Published in Brightlingsea, Essex, England, 1966-1967. Edited by Thomas Clark.

Nice is the tenth in a series of issues, each described as "a one shot magazine," each edited by Clark and published as "Vol. 1 No. 1." Each issue had a different cover title: "Once," "Twice," "Thrice," "Thrice and 1/2?," "Frice," "Vice," "Spice," "Slice," "Ice," and "Nice." All were collected in The Once Series and reprinted by Krause Reprint Company (New York, 1970).

Clark apparently solicited this story for his magazine. In a letter to Clark, dated September 7, 1965, Brautigan thanks him for his postcard (the request for a submission?) and says, "I have enclosed a short story called "The Armored Car" that I hope will interest you." Brautigan asks for "two copies of the issue that it [the story] is printed in" and that the copyright notice is printed with the story, "if you decide you want to use the story." Brautigan concludes his letter, "Anyway, your magazine sounds like fun." LEARN more.

The dedication for this story reads: "For Janice."
This was Janice Meissner with whom Brautigan lived from November 1964-May 1966. The couple lived together at three different addresses: 533 Divisadero Street (apartment 4), 544 Divisadero Street, and 2830 California Street. Photographer Erik Weber photographed them together. Brian Nation lived nearby and provides an account of his relationship with Brautigan and Meissner.

Free City News, no. 1, October 1967.
San Francisco

Many leaves (but not Brautigan's) were printed on both sides with illustrated poems and prose pieces and news commentary. All were anonymous.
Artwork by Stanley Muse.
An anthology of ten poems, each published as broadsides by the Diggers. Also issued separately.
8.5" x 14" white construction-like paper of various colors; Ten leaves (broadsides) plus illustrated front and back wrappers.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Boo, Forever," here untitled and so often cited by its first line: "Spinning Like a Ghost." This broadside was also issued seprately.

Brautigan's poem, without title, was centered on the page, framed by an Egyptian-style erotic illustration and a numbered listing of Kama Sutra sexual positions.

Brautigan originally titled this poem part of "Three Poems to Celebrate the History of Marcia" in reference to Marcia Pacaud.

Ramparts, vol. 6, no. 5, December 1967, pp. 43-45.

First publication of Brautigan's story "1/3, 1/3, 1/3" and a photograph by Baron Wolman of Brautigan, one of several he took in 1967 for publicity. Also included was a review by Stephen Schneck of Trout Fishing in America. Schneck participated on the Creative Arts Conference program with Brautigan in August 1969.

Hollow Orange, no. 4 1967, n. pg.
Published at 642 Shrader Street, San Francisco, California by Cranium Press
Edited by Clifford Burke
String tied wrappers

First publication of three poems by Brautigan: "Comets," "It's Raining in Love," and "Nine Things."

Also featured works by Keith Abbott, Bill Bathurst, Clifford Burke, Nick Chavin, Gino Clays, Zoltan Farkas, Max Finstein, Eugene Lesser, Martin MacClain, Jeff Sheppard (A poet friend of Brautigan to whom the poem "Hey! This Is What It's All About" was dedicated.), Ronald Silliman, David Tammer, David Sandberg, Patrick Nolan, and Steve Carey.

San Francisco Express Times, vol. 1, no. 27, 24 July 1968, p. 7.
Published weekly from 24 January 1968 (vol. 1, no. 1) to 24 December 1968 (vol. 1, no. 49) as San Francisco Express Times. Continued after as Good Times. Published at 15 Lafayette Street, San Francisco by the Trystero Company. Printed by Waller Press.

First Publication of Brautigan's poem "Mouths That Kissed in the Hot Ashes of Pompeii"

The Overland Journey of Joseph Francl: The First Bohemian to Cross the Plains to the California Gold Fields. William P. Wreden, [16 Dec.] 1968.
Limited edition of 540 copies of which 500 were offered for sale.
55 pages; 7.25" x 10" Bound in decorative paper boards with a paper spine label; plain white wrapper
Covers and interior pages illustrated with stylized line drawings by Berkeley, California, film-maker and artist, Patricia Oberhaus.
Typographic design by Jack Werner Stauffacher of Greenwood Press, San Francisco
Binding by Schuberth Bookbindery
Illustrated prospectus laid in

First publication of Brautigan's essay forming the introduction to this book, "The Overland Journey of Joseph Francl and the Eternal Sleep of His Wife Antonia in Crete, Nebraska."

A reprinting of Francl's diary kept during his travels from Wisconsin to California. First published serially in 1928. Brautigan's essay serves as the introduction, and was written on the invitation of Wreden, a San Francisco rare books and manuscripts dealer. The essay was later included in The Tokyo-Montana Express. READ this essay.

The publication announcement, sent out by William P. Wreden, included an illustration of Joseph Francl by Oberhaus and noted the introduction by Richard Brautigan. "Richard Brautigan is a novelist-poet living in San Francisco. His novels include A Confederate General from Big Sur and Trout Fishing in America. In the person of Joseph, Francl, freely, gently, in a new manner, he inquires after the phenomena of the overland pioneer." A separate invitation to a publication party also mentioned Brautigan.

The San Francisco Public Library: A Publishing House, 5 Dec. 1968, p 2.
Three wet process legal-size photocopy pages (8.5" x 14"); stapled; self-produced by Victor Moscoso, Jack Thibeau, and Brautigan.

The first page features Thibeau's contibution, a photocopy of his stomach and chest with decorative cut out stars. Thibeau's "signature" appears top center of the page, formed by the cut out typed phrase "Jack Thibeau" crossed by the cut out typed word "xeroxed."

In the center of the page, formed from typed and cut pieces of paper, appear the publication credits, prepared by Brautigan.
"The San Francisco Public Library:
A Publishing House

"This magazine was created and Xeroxed at the Main Library in the Civic Center using their ten cent Xerox machine on December 5, 1968 by: Victor Moscoso, Jack Thibeau, Richard Brautigan."

The first publication of Brautigan's poem "Mrs. Myrtle Tate, Movie Projectionist" appears on the second page, typed on white paper, cut out, and centered over a newspaper page featuring movie advertising.

Brautigan's handwritten signature appears in the upper left corner of the sheet, over the advertisement for the Orpheum Cinerama.

The entire event was planned and directed by Brautigan, who was intrigued with the idea of immediate publishing as a new form of public performance. Brautigan invited Thibeau and Moscoso to participate. Each was encouraged to produce a page, designed however they wished. Brautigan encouraged them to be creative. As part of his planning, Brautigan typed "This is one of seven numbered and signed copies" on seven separate small sheets of paper. Below each statement he typed a number. These statements were printed on seven copies of his page, each of which he signed. Thibeau and Moscoso signed copies of their pages as well. Brautigan compiled the three pages into little books, stapling each together. Allegedly, no more than twenty little books were made.

The event was photograhed by Edmund Shea, who produced three contact sheets of 35mm thumbnails of his photographs, thirty-six total. His photographs included the authors, other participants and onlookers, the ten cent copy machine, the Siamese cat Xenobia (belonging to Valerie Estes who accompanied Brautigan to the library and is seen in several of the photographs; Estes was given Xenobia as a Christmas present in 1967 by ex-husband Bob Morrill; Estes recounts a story involving Brautigan, cats, Lauren Sears, and Pat Ferraro), and the signing of copies.

The University of Virginia Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library website maintains a multimedia presentation of "Sixties Memorabilia" including this poster and Brautigan's "San Francisco Public Library: A Publishing House."

Rolling Stone, no. 24, 21 December 1968, p. 24.

First publication of three Brautigan stories: "Crazy Old Women Are Riding the Buses of America Today," "Fame in California," "A Need for Gardens."

The title of "Fame in Califorina" was changed to "Fame in California/1964" and when it was collected in Revenge of the Lawn.

Evergreen Review, vol. 61, December 1968, pp 24-26.

First publication of the Brautigan story "What Are You Going to Do with 390 Photographs of Christmas Trees."

Included a montage of nine photographs of discarded Christmas trees by Erik Weber, who is the photographer friend Brautigan refers to in the story. Brautigan called Weber the first week in January 1964, and enlisted his help in photographing discarded Christmas trees. The project, thought Brautigan, would show the shallowness of Christmas, and how easily it was discarded once passed. Brautigan originally intended a small, illustrated book, but never followed through. Instead, he wrote this story, recounting his project with Weber and an anonymous friend. In the original story, everyone is referred to by their proper name, except the anonymous friend. When he included this story in The Tokyo-Montana Express, Brautigan, who had ended his friendship with Weber, changed his name from "Erik" to "Bob."

Evergreen Review, published in New York, New York, 1957-1973, was edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriam Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

Rolling Stone, no. 25, 4 January 1969, p. 30.
First publication of two Brautigan stories: "The Ghost Children of Tacoma" and "Lint."

Rolling Stone, no. 26, 1 February 1969, p. 26.

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Short History of Oregon."

Rolling Stone, no. 27, 15 February 1969, 10.
This issue focused on Groupies, females (generally) who followed and attempted to attract the attentions of rock musicians.

First publication of Brautigan's story "I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone."

Journal for the Protection of All Beings, no. 3, 1969, n. pg.
Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, California. 6" x 10.25."

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Shellfish."

Background
Journal for the Protection of All Beings is generally considered one of the first radical ecology magazines. Published four issues, 1961-1978. Each issue's title varied and often depended on the focus of the content.

This issue was subtitled "Green Flag: People's Park Poetry" and included protest prose and poetry by University of California-Berkeley students focusing on the disruption of student gardening in a vacant lot called "People's Park." It was put together and sold in support of the Bail Defense Fund for the hundreds arrested following the protest over the closure of the park. Cover illustration by Eugene Hawkins Legend. Other illustrations by John Corrie. Brautigan's poem "Shellfish" appeared in the "To Every Animal" section but did not appear in the table of contents.

The journal itself was not a poetry magazine, "but it provided a forum for local poets to express their concern about their society" (Eloyde Tovey 43). The journal was started by Michael McClure and David Meltzer. It began production in San Francisco in 1961 under the City Lights imprint. The first issue of this magazine was edited by McClure, David Meltzer, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. It was conceived as a political magazine with a populist dialogue that hopefully would appeal to a broad audience.

Rolling Stone, no. 28, 1 March 1969, p. 30.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Holiday in Germany."

Rolling Stone, no. 29, 15 March 1969, p. 25.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Forgiven."

Rolling Stone, no. 30, 5 April 1969, p. 28.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Elmira."

Rolling Stone, no. 31, 19 April 1969, p. 8.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The View from the Dog Tower."

The Free You, vol. 3, no. 6, May 1969, p. 45.
Published in Menlo Park, California, by Midpeninsula Free University. Edited by Fred Nelson, Jon Buckley, Ed McClanahan, and others.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "All Girls Should Have a Poem."

Midpeninsula Free University of Palo Alto, California, (MFU), was an experiment in alternative education that began in 1965 as a Marxist-oriented challenge to the nearby Stanford University. Courses included yoga, mediation, and other experiential offerings. For a $US10.00 membership fee, one could sign up for any course offered by MFU, or teach any course he or she wished. The MFU faculty included Black Panthers, hippies, Stanford professors, and auto mechanics. Notable attendees were Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who went on to found Apple Computer. Peak membership was claimed to be more than a thousand. In addition to the school, MFU operated a restaurant, a head shop, and a free store.

MFU course offerings were detailed in a semi-annnual catalog called The Free You between 1968 and 1971. Starting as an 8.5" x 11" mimeographed house organ, the catalog grew to a full-color, fifty-page magazine distributed widely outside the university. Illustrations were often included. In fact, artist M. C. Escher wrote, 20 April 1969, "The Hippies of San Francisco continue to print my work illegaly. . . . I was sent a forty-eight-page programme or catalogue of the so-called "Midpeninsula Free University," Menlo Park, California. It included three reproductions of my prints alternating with photographs of seductive naked girls."

The editors of The Free You solicited writings from friends. Ed McClanahan knew Brautigan and may have asked him to contribute something to the catalog. Brautigan's poem appeared in a swirling color psychedelic illustration style popular at the time. The artist was attributed simply as Marghee [sic].

Rolling Stone, vol. 32, 3 May 1969, p. 29.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Not The Way," later collected in Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt as "Love's Not the Way to Treat a Friend."

Rolling Stone, no. 33, 17 May 1969, p. 12.

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Complete Movie of Germany and Japan." Title changed to "A Complete History of Germany and Japan" when it was collected in Revenge of the Lawn.

Heliotrope, Summer 1969, n. pg.
Published in San Francisco, CA.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Critical Can Opener."

Heliotrope was a learning environment open to anyone and offered a wide range of courses: massage, cinema, celebration of dusk, for example. This publication (6" x 9 1/4" printed on heavy, yellow paper) was the summer catalog.

Rolling Stone, no. 36, 28 June 1969, p. 38.

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Short Story about Contemporary Life in California."

Rolling Stone, no. 39, 9 August 1969, p. 37.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Memory of a Girl."

Rolling Stone, no. 41, 6 September 1969, p. 30.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Women When They Put Their Clothes On in the Morning."

Rolling Stone, no. 42, 20 September 1969, p 25.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Pale Marble Movie."

Vogue, vol. 154, no. 6, 1 October 1969, p. 126.
Written while living with Janice Meissner at 2830 California Street, San Francisco.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Weather in San Francisco."

Rolling Stone, no. 48, 13 December 1969, p. 40.
First publication of two Brautigan stories: "Ernest Hemingway's Typist" and "A High Building in Singapore."

Poetry, vol. cvx, no. 1, Oct. 1969, p. 30.
Published by October House, Inc., New York, NY

Fisrt publication of Brautigan's poem "Wood." This was his only appearance in this journal, founded by Harriet Monroe with help from Ezra Pound in 1912.

Vogue, vol. 155, no. 1, 1 January 1970, p. 179.

First publication of "The Auction," Brautigan's story about his impoverished childhood in the Pacific Northwest

Jeopardy, no. 6, March 1970, p. 90.
Published in Bellinghman, Washington, by the Associated Student Body of Western Washington State College.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Partners," as well as work by Keith Abbott, Greg Kuzma, Anselm Hollo, Noritoshi Tachibana (translated by Yozo Shibuya and Ron Bayes), Stephen Dunn, Richard Eberhart, James Den Boer, Charles Bukowski, Joyce Odam, William Stafford, Louis Ginsberg, Ann Mennebroker, John Stevens Wade, Stanley Cooperman, Stanley Plumley, Collete Inez, Terry Stokes, and Grace Butler.

Evergreen Review, no. 76, March 1970, p. 51.
Published in New York, New York, 1957-1973. Edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriman Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

First publication of the Brautigan story "The Betrayed Kingdom."

Link, Terry. "Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork." Rolling Stone, no. 60, 11 June 1970, p. 26.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Your Love."

Background
Brautigan read this poem at a poetry reading at the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco, 7 May 1970. Link reviewed the reading. LEARN more.

Rolling Stone, no. 61, 25 June 1970, p. 11.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Atlantisburg."

"Three Stories by Richard Brautigan." Mademoiselle, vol. 71, no. 3, July 1970, pp. 104-105.

First publication of three Brautigan stories: "1692 Cotton Mather Newsreel," "Sand Castles," and "Pacific Radio Fire."

Rolling Stone, no. 63, 23 July 1970, p. 15.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Greyhound Tragedy."

"The Library." The Dutton Review, no. 1, 1970, pp. 167-182.
Published in New York, New York. Edited by Hal Scharlatt, Robert Brown, and Jerome Charyn.

Featured four chapters from Brautigan's upcoming book The Abortion: "The Library," "The Automobile Accident," "The 23," and "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come out Tonight?"
These chapters comprised Book 1, titled "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come out Tonight?", of the novel.

This issue also featured works by William Gaddis, Raymond Mungo, C. P. Cavafy, Norma Meacock, Barton Midwood, Rudolph Wurlitzer, Anthony Kerrigan, John Hawkes, Jack Newfield, Stanley Elkin, LeRoi Jones, and Jorge Luis Borges.

Vogue, vol. 156, no. 2, 1 August 1970, p. 98.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Winter Rug,".

Brautigan sent this story, based on an anecdote he heard from friend Bill Brown, to Jory Sherman at Broadside, a men's magazine published in North Hollywood, California, who rejected it saying, "As it stands, there is no way in hell that I can buy this. What you have here is more of a slice of life with very little point as it turns out." Vogue felt differently.

Kaleidoscope-Milwaukee, vol. 3, no. 9, 12 October 1970, pp. 1, 10.
Published biweekly Box 5457, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53701.

First publication of the Brautigan story "Talk Show."

Rolling Stone, no. 67, 15 October 1970, p. 22.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Getting to Know Each Other."

Esquire, no. 74, October 1970, pp. 152-153.

First publication of "The Lost Chapters of Trout Fishing in America": 'Rembrandt Creek' and 'Carthage Sink' along with a full-page color illustration of Brautigan by Richard Weigand.

Evergreen Review, no. 84, November 1970, p. 41.
Published in New York, New York, 1957-1973. Edited by Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922-2012) and Donald Merriam Allen (1912-2004) (numbers 1-6 only) with the backing of Grove Press.

First publication of the Brautigan story "Complicated Banking Problems."

"Little Memoirs: Three Tales by Richard Brautigan." Playboy, vol. 17, no. 12, December 1970, pp. 164-165.

First publication of three Brautigan stories: "Corporal," "The Literary Life in California/1964," and "Halloween in Denver."

The World, no. 21, Jan. 1971, n. pg.
Published in New York, New York. Edited by Anne Waldman. Magazine of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery.
8.5" x 14" mimeographed sheets.

First publication of four poems by Brautigan: "Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork," "Two Guys Get Out of a Car," "Punitive Ghosts Like Steam Driven Tennis Courts," and "It's Time To Train Yourself."

Earth, vol. 2, no. 1, Jan. 1971.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Homage to Rudi Gernreich/1965".
A story about the Pet Cemetary in San Francisco's The Presidio.
Featured a photograph taken in November 1965 by Erik Weber of Brautigan looking over the pet tombstones there.

The magazine (8" x 11.5" with cover artwork by Bob Zoell) featured four pages of artwork by Robert Crumb titled "Mr. Natural's 719th Meditation" and full color photographs of musician Shuggie Otis by San Francisco photographer Lisa Law.

A quote by California designer Rudi Gernreich acts as a prologue to the story. "The look in clothes expresses an anti-attitude, the result of being bored . . . And so, if you're bored, you go for the outrageous gesture. Everything else seems to have lost any meaning."

Vogue, vol. 157, no. 3, 1 February 1971, p. 192.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Old Bus."

"A Taste of the Taste of Brautigan." California Living, 16 May 1971, pp. 7-10.
The magazine of the San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle.

Introduction reads, "Richard Brautigan, an Aquarian born in Tacoma, Washington, January 30, 1935, has grown from an unknown poet of the Haight Ashbury during the days of the Flower Children, to one of the country's leading writers—in less than ten years. Among his works, widely read and discussed on college campuses—as well as in the general mainstream—are (novels) Trout Fishing in America, A Confederate General from Big Sur and (poetry) The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster and Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt."

First punblication of seven Brautigan poems: "They Are Really Having Fun", "We Meet. We Try. Nothing Happens, But", "Home Again Home Again Like a Turtle To His Balcony", "You Will Have Unreal Recollections of Me", "Finding Is Losing Something Else", "Impasse", and "Homage to Charles Atlas". Photographs, including one of Brautigan, by Edmund Shea.

Clear Creek, no. 3, June 1971, p. 30.

First publication of the Brautigan poem "Are You the Lamb of Your Own Forgiving?"

Vogue, vol. 158, no. 1, July 1971, pp. 96-97.

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Homage to the San Francisco YMCA." When this story was incorporated into Revenge of the Lawn, it was retitled as "Homage to the San Francisco YMCA."

Harper's Magazine, vol. 243, no. 1457, October 1971, p. 58.

First publication of the Brautigan poem "Crow Maiden."

International Times, no. 119, 16-30 December 1971, p. 16.
London underground magazine started by Barry Miles.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Halloween in Denver." Featured an illustration by "Yellow Pig." Cover shows Fat Freddy as Father Christmas. Contents include a pullout paranoia board game, a full-page photograph of Jim Morrison, and a review of a Yoko Ono film.

The San Francisco Poets. Edited by David Meltzer. Ballantine Books, 1971, pp. 293-97, 304-305.

First publication of Brautigan's essay "Old Lady." Also reprints six poems by Brautigan from Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt: "Jules Verne Zucchini," "Propelled by Portals Whose Only Shame," "Donner Party," "In Her Sweetness Where She Folds My Wounds," "The Elbow of a Dead Duck," "As the Bruises Fade, the Lightning Aches" and a bibliographical checklist prepared by Brautigan. One of several reference books focusing on Brautigan.

Mark In Time: Portraits & Poetry / San Francisco. Edited by Nick Harvey. Glide Publications, 1971, pp. 170-171, 173-174.
188 pages; Hardcover, with dustjacket; 9.5" x 9.5"
An overview of the San Francisco poetry scene in the early 1970s.

First publication of two poems by Brautigan: "On Pure Sudden Days Like Innocence" and "Curiously Young Like a Freshly-Dug Grave."

Also featured poets Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Wieners, George Oppen, Joanne Kyger, Pete Winslow, Kenneth Rexroth, Lew Welch, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ishmael Reed, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, William Everson, Gary Snyder, Brautigan, and others. Each poet given a double-page spread with a photograph by Christa Fleishmann and biographical information.

Autobiographical note reads, "Richard Brautigan (191) was born January 30, 1935, in the Pacific Northwest. He has lived in San Francisco for many years. He is the author of Trout Fishing in America (novel); A Confederate General from Big Sur (novel); In Watermelon Sugar (novel); The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster (poetry); Please Plant This Book (poetry); All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (poetry); Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt (poetry); and The Abortion: An Historical Romance of 1966 (novel) and Revenge of the Lawn (short stories), both due in 1971."

Solotaroff, Theodore, editor. New American Review, Number 12, Simon and Schuster, 1971, pp. 123-126.

The inspiration for this story came in a telephone call to Virginia Alder, Brautigan's first wife, in the fall of 1960 regarding the death of her father, Grover Cleveland Alder, in Los Angeles, California. Virginia was not in the apartment and Brautigan took the call. When she returned, Brautigan told her of her father's death that afternoon. Nearly ten years later, in the last weeks of 1969, Brautigan wrote of that afternoon in 1960, and chronicled the life of his father in law in thirty-three short, numbered passages.

Esquire, Vol. LXXVIII, No. 3, September 1972, p. 50.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Autobiography (Polish It Like a Piece of Silver)."

The reference to "Byrds" in this poem is a small town in central Texas near Brownwood.
The reference to "Judy" is Judy Gordon. She and her husband, Roxy, were friends of Brautigan and he visited them in Austin, Texas, in August 1970. Rommel Drives On Deep Into Egypt, a collection of poetry, was dedicated to Roxy and Judy Gordon.

Blue Suede Shoes, .424, 1973. p. n. pg.
Published at 1146 Sutter, Berkeley, California. Edited by Keith Abbott.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets. Several issues, variously numbered. See "Background" below.

First publication of three Brautigan poems: "Montana Inventory," "Oak," and "Ben." Brautigan listed as a member of the "Board of Editors," along with John Ashbery, Andrei Codrescu, "Our Gal Flo," and Robert Creeley. Also featured work by Joyce Holland, Michael Sowl, Guillaume Appollinaire, Keith Abbott, Carlos Castaneda, Jr., Richard Snyder, Barry Alpert, Pat[rick] Nolan, and a Opal Nations-Keith Abbott collaboration.

Background
Volume 1 Numbers 1-15 (1968?- 1972?) were edited by Keith Abbott and Steve Carey. Numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 published at 1007 Lake Whatcom Blvd., Bellingham, Washington 98225.
Number 5, published as a book titled , Pat Nolan in a Buick Twenty Poems by Bob Hope was devoted to poems by Pat[rick] Nolan. Published (150 copies) at 724 Lottie Street, Monterey, California 93940. Twenty five copies were signed with a poem by the author.
Number 6 (1968) published in Monterey, California.
Number 7, published as a book titled Fleur-De-Lis, was devoted to poems by Steve Carey. Published (150 copies) in Monterey, California. Twenty copies were signed with various embellishments added by the author.
Number 8 (1971), published as a book titled Thick and Thin, was devoted to prose and poetry by Keith Abbott. Published (1,000 copies) in Monterey, California. Fifty copies were signed with a poem by the author.
Number 9, titled "The American Indian Issue," was published in Monterey, California.
Number 10, published as a book titled 2X, was devoted to prose by Keith Abbott and Michael Sowl. Published (175 copies) in Monterey, California.
Number 11, published (200 copies) by Strange Faeces Press, 42a, Pembridge Road, Notting Hill Gate, London W11, England. Edited by Keith Abbott.
Number 12 (1972), published as a book titled The Best Deal I Ever Made, was devoted to prose by Keith Abbott. Published in Monterey, California.
Number 13, called the "To hell and back" issue, published in Monterey, California. Edited by Keith Abbott and Harry Heilman.
Number 14 (1972), published as a book titled Hero Pills, was devoted to 1968-1969 stories by Keith Abbott. Published in Monterey, California.
Number 15 was edited by "Keith Abbott & Rhubarb." Published in Monterey, California.
Each issue contained prose and poetry work by modern American and British writers, translations of French and Spanish writers, parodies of American poetry, found poems, and editorials. Numbers 16-18 were to be Abbott's novel Gush, A Novel Starring the Gush Family about The Unemployment Problems in California.

The Decimal Series began after Volume 1, Number 15 with Number .5 ("The Organized Religion Issue," published in Berkeley, California) and progressed backwards: Number .314159265 ("The Pi Issue," published in Berkeley, California), Number .424 (published in Berkeley, California, 1973?), Number .016 (Face, devoted to poetry by Michael-Sean Lazaaarchuk, published in Berkeley, California), Number .406 (Chocolate Winter?, devoted to poetry by Michael Sowl, published in Berkeley, California, 1974?), Number .017 (published in Berkeley, California), and Number .386 (Brain 10, devoted to poetry "by the students in Miss Gatenby's 9th grade classes in Room 10 at Emeryville High." Published at 1020 Cornell, Albany, California 94706 in 1976).

"2 New Stories by Richard Brautigan." The New Ingenue, May 1973, pp. 92-93.
Published by Ingenue Communciations, New York, New York.

First publication of two stories by Brautigan: "A Feeling of Helplessness" and "The Last of my Armstrong Creek Mosquito Bites." The table of contents reads: "A FEELING OF HELPLESSNESS/THE LAST OF MY ARMSTRONG MOSQUITO BITES
Richard Brautigan gives us two new short stories."

Both stories printed on page 92. a photograph by Erik Weber of Brautigan fishing Armstrong Creek, Montana, October 1972, was used as a background across the two pages.

"Some Montana Poems/1973." City Lights Anthology. Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. City Lights Books, 1974, p. 95.

First publication of three Brautigan poems "Night" (one of two Brautigan poems with this title), "Dive Bombing the Lower Emotions" and "Nine Crows: Two Out of Sequence."

A larger format version of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Journal, where, in the first issue, Brautigan published three chapte rs from his then forthcoming novel Trout Fishing in America. Brautigan was part of a group of writers included who had been published by or were associated with City Lights or San Francisco: Jack Micheline, Jerry Kamstra, Charles Bukowski, Gail Chiarello, and Robert Creeley. Also included was poetry by Harold Norse; jailed Iranian poet Reza Baraheni; Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro; Isabelle Eberhardt, a young European who lived among the Muslims in North Africa; Jean Genet; a new translation of Arthur Rimbaud's A Season in Hell, writing by Black Power advocate Huey Newton, and Allen Ginsberg's record of his meeting with Ezra Pound (Barry Silesky 185-186).

Mademoiselle, vol. 80., no. 1, Nov. 1974, pp. 192-193.

First publilcation of Brautigan's story "An Eye for Good Produce" and Brautigan's poem "Good Luck, Captain Martin."

The Beatles' Illustrated Lyrics. Dell, 1975.
208 pages
First publication of the Brautigan's introduction, "The Silence of Flooded Houses." to this collection of lyrics and over 100 photographs. Keith Abbott said this essay was a good example of Brautigan's inability to write journalism. For this assignment, like others, Abbot said Brautigan "spun out short, metaphorical fantasies" more dependent on his imagination, fueled by his friends and activities, for ideas than his ability to report on some event (Keith Abbott 88).

The CoEvolution Quarterly, no. 8, Winter 1975, p. 49.
Published by Point in Sausalito, California.
First publication of six Brautigan poems: "We Are In A Kitchen," "January 4 3," "A Penny Smooth As A Star," "Fuck Me Like Fried Potatoes," "Seconds," "Autobiography (When the Moon Shines Like a Dead Garage)." All collected in "Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork." Also featured work by Robert Creeley, Paul Krassner, Gurney Norman, and Anne Waldman.

Esquire, Vol LXXXIII, no. 3, March 1975, pp. 70, 134.

First publication of Brautigan's story "A Gun for Big Fish".

TriQuarterly, vol. 35, Winter 1976, p. 89.
Published in Evanston, Illinois.
A two-volume set.

First publication of Brautigan's story, "Football," appears in Volume 1.

The CoEvolution Quarterly [Sausalito, California], no. 9, Spring Mar. 20, 1976, p. 23.

First publication of Brautigan's essay "Owls" along with others commenting on Gerard O'Neill's idea of Space Colonies. Brautigan spoke against space colonization and for ecology.

This issue of The CoEvolution Quarterly also included commentary by Wendell Berry, Ken Kesey, Buckminister Fuller, Astronaut Russell Schweickart, John Todd, Joni Mitchell, and California Governor Jerry Brown.

Transatlantic Review, vol. 58, no. 59, Feb. 1977, p. 117.
Published in London, England and New York, New York. Edited by J. F. McCrindle.

First publication of Brautigan's story "The Bed Salesman."

Outside , Sep. 1977, p. 7.

First publication of Brautigan's story "Dogs on the Roof."

Quest/77, vol. 1, no. 5, Nov./Dec. 1977, p. 108.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "On the Elevator Going Down."

"Four Stories for Aki and Other Treats." California Living, 14 Jan. 1979, pp. 5-7.
The magazine of the San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle. Described as "a compendium of short stories."

First publication of seven Brautigan stories: "The Short Story", "Walking Toward December". "The Purpose," "Meat," "The Great Golden Telescope," "Harmonica High"," and "Her Last Known Boyfriend"." The last of these was retitled "Her Last Known Boyfriend a Canadian Airman" in The Tokyo-Montana Express.

The CoEvolution Quarterly, no. 21, Spring (March 21) 1979, p. 77.
Published by Point, Sausalito, California.
First publication of Brautigan's story "Farewell to the First Grade and Hello to the National Enquirer" appeared in a section titled "Used Magazines" where "63 strange people tell what they read." Included in the list of "strange people" were Wendell Berry, William S. Burroughs, Robert Crumb, and Allen Ginsberg. Of note: William S. Burroughs read Soldier of Fortune.

San Francisco Stories 1979
Paperback, with printed wrappers; 59 pages.
Edited by George Matchette, Robert Monson, and Charles Rubin.
Published in San Francisco, California. First issue of a biannual magazine of "Short Fiction by Bay Area Writers."

First publication of three stories by Brautigan: "Skylab at the Graves of Abbott and Costello," "Al's Rose Harbor," and "Waking Up Again." Also featured original works by Michael Rubin, Annette Dozier, Yuri Kageyama, Barry Gifford, Ray Scippa, and Jane Nudelman.

New Orleans Review, vol. 7, no. 1, 1980, p. 24.
Published by Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

First publication of Brautigan's story "In Pursuit of the Impossible Dream."

"Three by Richard Brautigan." Corona, no. 2, 1981, pp. 12-14.
First publication of three Brautigan stories: "The Last of What's Left", "Closets", and "The Grasshopper's Mirror".

Background
Michael Sexson, editor of Corona notes,
I think we called them stories because Richard said so. They seem tiny short stories, but it would not be wrong to call them poems either. Notice that we evaded the issue in the text by calling it "Three by Richard Brautigan."
Michael Sexson. Email to John F. Barber, 18 February 2002.

"A Happy but Footsore Writer Celebrates His Driver's Block": People Weekly, 8 June 1981
Brautigan is credited as the author of this article, but it actually stems from interviews by Cheryl McCall.

The first publication of this long piece by Brautigan on why he hates cars. Inludes three photographs of Brautigan by Roger Ressmeyer, taken Saturday, 21 March 1981 in San Francisco.

"Yoru ni nagareru kawa." Asahi Shinbun, [Tokyo, Japan], Evening Edition, 6 June 1983, p. 5.
Translated by Shuntaro Tanikawa.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Night Flowing River." in Japanese.

"Richard Brautigan: Tokyo and Montana." Friends of the Washington Review of the Arts, vol. 9, no. 5, Feb./Mar. 1984, p. 9.

First publication in English of Brautigan's poem "Night Flowing River" and first publication of Brautigan's story "The Lost Tree", Includes a photograph of Brautigan by Toby Thompson.

Abbott, Keith. Downstream from Trout Fishing in America. Capra Press, 1989, p. 137.

First publication of Brautigan's poems "Somehow We Live and Die Again," "Reflection," and "Death Growth."

end hiding --> Barber, John F. Richard Brautigan: An Annotated Bibliography. McFarland, 1990, p. 4.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Rendezvous."

a visit from jake, X-Ray, no. 6, Winter 1996.

This excerpt from the upcoming Brautigan novel I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye was originally laid into X-Ray no. 6. This chapbook was reprinted separately later in the same year in an limited edition of 300 numbered and 26 lettered copies. First publication of a Brautigan chapbook entitled "A Visit From Jake", an excerpt from the upcoming Brautigan novel I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye. The chapbook was laid in as a separate item. Later, in the same year, this piece was reissued on its own in an limited edition of 300 numbered and 26 lettered copies.

Ogar, Richard, editor. The Poet's Eye: A Tribute to Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Books. The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1997, pp. 61-63.

Background
This book associated with the Symposium and 49th Annual Meeting of The Friends of Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, California, 12-13 April 1996. The theme was "Ferlinghetti, City Lights Books, and the Beats in San Francisco: From the Margins to the Mainstream."

First publication of Brautigan's poems "Poem for Michael McClure" and "Rainy Gary Snyder Poetry Reading Night," as well as a poem titled "Remembering City Lights" by Brautigan's daughter Ianthe.

Poet Michael McClure and Brautigan were good friends. LEARN more.

S. A. Griffith, a Los Angeles, California, poet, actor, and one of the founding members of Carma Bums, a group of touring poets, wrote a description of the event.

X-Ray, no. 8, Summer 2001.
Limited edition of 100 lettered and 26 lettered and signed copies
4" x 4" letterpress broadside

Published by X-Ray Book and Novelty Company, Ventura, California, and laid into a 5" x 5" box with several items as an art assemblage. The box itself featured a letterpress wrapper.

First publication of the Brautigan poem "Desire in a Bowl of Potatoes," which was also issued separately
LEARN more at the X-Ray X-Ray Press website.

Also contained several letterpress broadsides featuring work by Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Dan Fante, Billy Childish, Michael Montfort, Bern Porter, Gerald Locklin, A.D. Winans, and others.

X-Ray, no. 9, Summer 2003.
Limited edition of 100 numbered and 26 lettered and signed copies
Published by X-Ray Book and Novelty Company, Ventura, California, and included with a flex-disc, various small broadsides and chapbooks, photographs, and art objects in a 8.5" x 7.75" cardboard box with printed wrap-around band as an art assemblage.

Included in this issue is the first publication of Brautigan's poem "Please" (as a 4" x 4" letterpress broadside) as well as work by Thurston Moore, Charles Bukowski, Dan Fante, Billy Childish, Michael Montfort, Bern Porter, A.D. Winans, and others.

Berkeley Review, vol. 1, no. 3, 1957, pp. 14-15.
Published 1921 Walnut Street, Berkeley, California, 1956-1957. Edited/published by William P. Barlow, Jr., George Huppert, and C. A. Tong. Published only one volume (with three issues) from Winter 1956 through 1957.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "The Horse That Had A Flat Tire." Also reprints his "The Return of the Rivers." Also featured work by Walter Ballenger, Adrian Stoutenberg, Barbara Cochran, May Swenson, Robert Beloof, Samuel Menashe, Donald Gutierrez, David Cornel DeJong, John Tagliabue, Anthony Ostroff, Richard Wilbur, Richard Eberhart, and Robert Horan.

San Francisco Express Times, vol. 1, no. 49, December 24, 1968, pp. 8-9.
Published weekly from 24 January 1968 (vol. 1, no. 1) to 24 December 1968 (vol. 1, no. 49) as San Francisco Express Times. Continued after as Good Times. Published at 15 Lafayette Street, San Francisco by the Trystero Company. Printed by Waller Press.

Reprints eleven poems by Brautigan: "The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster," "The Day they Busted the Grateful Dead," "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace," "Discovery," "At the California Institute of Technology," "Boo, Forever," "The Sidney Greenstreet Blues," "The Flowerburgers Part 4," "A Baseball Game Part 7," "December 24," and "The Garlic Meat Lady from ."

Big Venus. Edited by Nick Kimberly. Big Venus, 1969, p. 1.

Reprints the Brautigan poem, "Feel Free to Marry Emily Dickinson."

Only two issues of this poetry magazine were issued. Also featured work by Clayton Eshelman, Claude Pelieu, Goerge Dowden, and others. Published in London, 102 Southhampton Row.

Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: A Collection of Over 125 Poems. Edited by Frances Monson McCullough. Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, 1971, pp. 27, 130, 142.

Reprints three Brautigan poems: "To England," "The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster," and "The Day They Busted the Grateful Dead."

The biographical note for Brautigan reads, "Richard Brautigan published several small books of poetry in limited editions and then collected them in one volume, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, published first by Four Seasons Foundation and them by Delacorte. He has also published three novels and a book of new poems, Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt. Brautigan is 36 and has lived in San Francisco for many years."

Poems Here and Now. Edited by David Kherdian. Greenwillow Books, 1976

Reprints two poems by Brautigan: "The Chinese Checker Players" and "The Horse That Had A Flat Tire."

Postcard Poems. Edited by Paul B. Janeczko. Bradbury Press, 1979

Reprints Brautigan's poem "In a Cafe."

Shake the Kaleidoscope: A New Anthology of Modern Poetry. Edited by Milton Klonsky. Simon & Schuster, 1973

Reprints six poems by Brautigan: "To England," "November 3." "A Mid-February Sky Dance," "Mating Saliva." "Romeo and Juliet," "As the Bruises Fade, the Lightning Aches."

The Ways of the Poem. Edited by Josephine Miles. Prentice Hall, 1972, pp. 376-377.

Reprints Brautigan's poems "The Chinese Checkers Players" and "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace."

A First Reader of Contemporary American Poetry. Edited by Patrick Gleason. Merrill, 1969, pp. 23-26

Reprints eight poems by Brautigan: "In a Cafe," "The Wheel," "The Sidney Greenstreet Blues," "The Fever Monument," "Horse Race," "Our Beautiful West Coast Thing," "The Pomegranate Circus," and "General Custer Versus the Titanic."

Foot, no.1, September 1959.
Published in San Francisco, California. Edited by Richard Duerdan. Cover art of a pair of human feet by Robert Duncan.

First publication of five poems by Brautigan: "The Rape of Ophelia," "Postcard from Chinatown," "The Nature Poem," "Horse Race," "The Last Music is Not Heard." Also featured work by [Burgess] Jess Collins, Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Philip Whalen, Gary Snyder, and others.

J, no. 1, Sep. 1959, p. n. pg.
Printed on 8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets.
J magazine was privately published in San Francisco, California, 1959-1961, eight issues. Edited by Jack Spicer and George Stanley. Also featured work by Robert Duncan, James Alexander, Ebbe Borregaard, Robin Blaser, Jack Spicer, Joe Dunn, Sam the Tenor Man, and Kay Johnson.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "The Fever Monument."

J, no. 4, Nov. 1959.
Printed on 8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets; 16 pages. Hand-colored blue and green illustration on front cover.
J magazine was privately published in San Francisco, California, 1959-1961, eight issues. Edited by Jack Spicer and George Stanley.

First publication of three poems by Brautigan: "The Pumpkin Tide ," "The Sidney Greenstreet Blues," and "Surprise."

Also featured work by Robert Duncan, Joanne Kyger, Josef Elias, Donald Merriam Allen, John Ryan, Jack Spicer, George Stanley, and Wallace Allen.

J, no. 5, December 1959.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets. Front cover illustrated with a hand-colored gold border.
J magazine was privately published in San Francisco, California, 1959-1961, eight issues. Edited by Jack Spicer and George Stanley.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "1942" as well as work by L. Frank Baum, Larry Eigner, [Burgess] Jess Collins, Ron Loewinsohn, George Stanley, Robert Duncan, Richard Duerden, and Jack Spicer. LEARN more.

Just What The Country Needs, Another Poetry Anthology. Edited by James McMichael and Dennis Saleh. Wadsworth, 1971, pp. xii, 22-26, 185.
6.5" x 9.5", 190 pages
A poetry anthology collecting 124 poems by 30 poets, including Brautigan. Includes biographical notes for each contributor and an introduction by X. J. Kennedy, who says, "Anyone who cares for poetry ought to encounter much to delight and startle him here. Among such gratifications for me was . . . Richard Brautigan, abruptly popular, whose best work (see "The Winos on Potrero Hill") moves with a beautiful transparency" (xii).

Reprints five poems by Brautigan: "The Winos on Potrero Hill," "The Quail," "The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster," "Discovery," and "Adrenalin Mother," all from The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster.

The biographical note for Brautigan reads, "Richard Brautigan published several small books of poetry in limited editions and then collected them in one volume, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, published first by Four Seasons Foundation and them by Delacorte. He has also published three novels and a book of new poems, Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt. Brautigan is 36 and has lived in San Francisco for many years."

"Three Poems." London Magazine, Nov. 1970, p. 65.

Reprints three poems by Brautigan: "The Wheel," "Horse Race," and "Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4." Also included work by Robert Lowell, Ronald Hayman, Minos Argyakis, Christine Broke-Rose, G. S. Sharat Chandra, William Sanson, Nirad Chaudhuri, Geoffrey Grigson, William Feaver, John Elsom, and Tony Harrison.

San Francisco Express Times, vol. 1, no. 49, December 24, 1968, pp. 8-9.
Published weekly from 24 January 1968 (vol. 1, no. 1) to 24 December 1968 (vol. 1, no. 49) as San Francisco Express Times. Continued after as Good Times. Published at 15 Lafayette Street, San Francisco by the Trystero Company. Printed by Waller Press.

Reprints eleven poems by Brautigan: "The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster," "The Day they Busted the Grateful Dead," "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace," "Discovery," "At the California Institute of Technology," "Boo, Forever," "The Sidney Greenstreet Blues," "The Flowerburgers Part 4," "A Baseball Game Part 7," "December 24," and "The Garlic Meat Lady from ."

TriQuarterly, vol. 1, Fall 1964, pp. 62-67.

Featured three chapters from Brautigan's upcoming novel "A Confederate General from Big Sur:" "Breaking Bread at Big Sur," "Preparing for Ecclesiastes," and "The Rivets in Ecclesiastes." Also featured a portfolio of picture-poems by Kenneth Patchen.

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, The Communication Company, 1967.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed broadside. Hand-lettered title and imprint (Communication Company). All else type-written.

Reported Variants
Two variants, or issues, probably because all copies of the first version were given away prompting Brautigan to return for more, according to Claude Hayward, co-founder of the Communcation Company

Feedback from Claude Hayward

The stencil [used to print the first issue] might have gotten lost or trashed in the chaos [of daily operations] and we redid the whole thing. . . . Although it was possible to reuse a stencil, it rarely happened, and I remember that we had even gotten the special folders that were supposed to preserve the stencils so they could be reused. But it never seemed to work right. We must have just recreated the whole thing over again, right down to retyping the copy, because [Brautigan] had given every copy away and there was nothing to scan with the Gestefax.
— Claude Hayward. Email to John F. Barber, 19 Dec. 2003.

Hayward probably hand-lettered the stencils and printed each issue. Allegedly Kaye Confini, Brautigan's girlfriend, assisted with the production of at least one of these broadsides.

First issue: The "loudspeaker" version.
Paper shows faintly "LOUDSPEAKER CURRENT" and electric schematics. Published in 1967.

Second issue: The "computer" version.
Bold hand-drawn illustrations of small animals and a picture of a computer bank. Published in 1967.

Feedback from Claude Hayward

For some reason the animals bring to mind Alan Gorden, a very young man, a protege of Chester Anderson who stayed at the Duboce house. I think those are his animals.
— Claude Hayward. Email to John F. Barber, 19 Dec. 2003.

The American Literary Anthology. Second Annual Collection. Edited by George Plimpton and Peter Ardery. Random House, 1969, p. 56.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "It's Raining in Love" but omitted the last 13 lines. Thus, the full poem apeared in the 1970 anthogy in this series.

The American Literary Anthology. Third Annual Collection. Edited by George Plimpton and Peter Ardery. Viking, 1970, pp. 384-385.
Corrected version

Reprints Brautigan's poem "It's Raining in Love" The 1969 anthology in this series omitted the last 13 lines of this poem, so it was included in full here.

Dugdale, Anthony. "Romantic Renegades." Architectural Design, vol. 48, no. 7, 1978

Reprints Brautigan's poem "Let's Voyage into the New American House."

Aura Literary/Arts Review. Thunder City Press, 1977(?).
11" x 17" broadside.

Reprints six Brautigan poems: "I Lie Here in a Strange Girl's Apartment," "A Mid-February Sky Dance," "After Halloween Slump," "Comets," "The Pomegranate Circus ," and "Let's Voyage into the New American House" all from All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.

"As he has for a number of years, Richard Brautigan goes on living and writing in San Francisco. He is now 43 years old and the author of such books as Trout Fishing in America, The Abortion, The Hawkline Monster, Willard and His Bowling Trophies, and others. This edition of Aura Broadside Series presents selections from All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace which is currently out of print. A copy of the book was obtained through Jan Susina, a graduate student at the University of Indiana, where they have a Rare Books Department. "Mid-February Sky Dance" appeared previously in Thunder City Press Broadside. Permission is granted to reprint any of these poems in magazines, books, and newspapers if they are given away free."

The Beautiful Poem, The Communication Company, April 1967
Mimeographed letter-sized (8.5" x 11") broadside.

First Publication of Brautigan's poem "The Beautiful Poem". Illustration of a woman in right margin with caption "Drawing by Seurat."
Georges Seurat (1891-1959) was a neo-impressionist painter.

A First Reader of Contemporary American Poetry. Edited by Patrick Gleason. Merrill, 1969, pp. 23-26

Reprints eight poems by Brautigan: "In a Cafe," "The Wheel," "The Sidney Greenstreet Blues," "The Fever Monument," "Horse Race," "Our Beautiful West Coast Thing," "The Pomegranate Circus," and "General Custer Versus the Titanic."

Flowers for Those You Love The Communication Company, April 1967.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed broadside. Title in block letters, printed in a flowing fashion. All else in typeset.
Imprint: "printed by the Communication Company UPS."
An illustration of a stem of roses printed in lower right corner.
Information about this poem at the Digger Archives website

Background
This poem is about veneral disease, urging anyone who thinks they have it so see a doctor. Inspiration for the poem may have come from Brautigan's possible treatment from Dr. Alex L. Finkle, a San Francisco urologist, for veneral disease in December 1964, while living with Janice Meissner at 533 Divisadero Street. Published as a broadside it is typical of the efforts of the Communication Company to inform the Haight-Ashbury community.

Four Poems, Synaesthesia Press: Tempe, Arizona, 2000.
Limited Edition; 26 lettered copies; First printing Spring 2000
4.75" x 6.25"
Typeset (Souvenir typeface) and hand-printed on Somerset text by Jim Camp
Printed wrappers on Rives BFK paper; Handsewn binding
Given away to friends of the press
The remainders were marked "out of series" and sent to Ianthe Brautigan.

Reprints four Brautigan poems from All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
"November 3"
"December 24"
"December 30"
"At the California Institute of Technology"

Hey, Bacon!, March 2000
Small broadside. Published by Jim Camp, Synaesthesia Press.
Limited edition of approximately 150 copies; 50 laid into Volta the rest given away to friends of the press.

Printed on 2" x 3.5" cardboard cut from cereal boxes. The poem was printed on the blank side (inside) of the ceral box cutout. The already printed portion of the cereal box formed the reverse.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "Hey, Bacon!"

According to Camp, Volta is a direct descendent of Wallace Berman's magazine Semina, a free-form art and poetry journal that Berman published between 1955 and 1964. Each of the nine issues was printed on a handpress and then hand-assembled by Berman who glued artwork, photographs, small poems and other items inside. Sometimes the enclosed items were loose, laid in between the magazine's pages, or tucked into inside pockets without prescribed order or sequence. Each issue was extremely limited, a few hundred copies, ephemeral although focused on a loose theme, personal, and distributed mostly via the U.S. Mail to a very select group of recipients who were often the contributors as well. As a literary journal, each issue of Semina was a loosely assembled compendium of the most interesting artists and poets of the time, staking out a new cultural context for the evolving literature and art counterculture. Camp continues this tradition with his magazine, Volta. He prints and sends out each issue when it is complete. None of the issues can be bought. They simply arrive.

Hollow Orange, no. 4 1967, n. pg.
Published at 642 Shrader Street, San Francisco, California by Cranium Press
Edited by Clifford Burke
String tied wrappers

First publication of three poems by Brautigan: "Comets," "It's Raining in Love," and "Nine Things."

Also featured works by Keith Abbott, Bill Bathurst, Clifford Burke, Nick Chavin, Gino Clays, Zoltan Farkas, Max Finstein, Eugene Lesser, Martin MacClain, Jeff Sheppard (A poet friend of Brautigan to whom the poem "Hey! This Is What It's All About" was dedicated.), Ronald Silliman, David Tammer, David Sandberg, Patrick Nolan, and Steve Carey.

Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4, The Communication Company, April 1967.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed broadside. Imprint: The Communication Company U.P.S. The UPS logo indicated association with the Underground Press Syndicate.

Kaye Confini, Brautigan's girlfriend, assisted with the production of this broadside. Information about this poem at the Digger Archives website.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4".

Reported Variants
Two versions reported: a red bones version and a gray bones version. Other reported variants include text printed in lavender with no background design.

Red bones version
Text printed in black over a background of red anatomical drawings of human bones.

Gray bones version
Text printed in black over background of gray anatomical drawings of human bones.

"Three Poems." London Magazine, Nov. 1970, p. 65.

Reprints three poems by Brautigan: "The Wheel," "Horse Race," and "Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4." Also included work by Robert Lowell, Ronald Hayman, Minos Argyakis, Christine Broke-Rose, G. S. Sharat Chandra, William Sanson, Nirad Chaudhuri, Geoffrey Grigson, William Feaver, John Elsom, and Tony Harrison.

Love Poem, The Communication Company, 1967.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed broadside. Typeset; Title enclosed in a heart-shaped drawing.
Imprint: Communication Company.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Love Poem".

Reported Variants
Variants reported include a black version, a lavender version, and one with no Communication Company logo.

O'er, no. 2, December 1966, pp. 107-109.
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets of different colored construction paper; 128 pages; staple binding
Published in San Francisco, California, by Cranium Press.
Edited by David Sandberg.
Called variously Awwr, O'er, and Oar at different points of this issue. First issue appeared April 1966 and was titled or #1.

First publication of three poems by Brautigan: "The House" and "My Nose is Growing Old" and "November 3." Each poem appeared on a separate page. "My Nose is Growing Old" and "November 3" were collected in All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. The poem "The House" was not included in any collection. In addition to Brautigan's poems, this issue also featured a full-page advertisement for The Galilee Hitch-Hiker to be published by Oar, complete with made up blurbs promoting the book. Also included contributions by Jack Spicer, Lew Welch, Anselm Hollo, John Sinclair, Clark Coolidge, and others.

San Francisco Express Times, vol. 1, no. 49, December 24, 1968, pp. 8-9.
Published weekly from 24 January 1968 (vol. 1, no. 1) to 24 December 1968 (vol. 1, no. 49) as San Francisco Express Times. Continued after as Good Times. Published at 15 Lafayette Street, San Francisco by the Trystero Company. Printed by Waller Press.

Reprints eleven poems by Brautigan: "The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster," "The Day they Busted the Grateful Dead," "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace," "Discovery," "At the California Institute of Technology," "Boo, Forever," "The Sidney Greenstreet Blues," "The Flowerburgers Part 4," "A Baseball Game Part 7," "December 24," and "The Garlic Meat Lady from ."