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.

Available online (with subscription) at: The Oregonian Archives.

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."

Available online (with subscription) at: The Oregonian Archives.

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

First publication of the Brautigan poem, "A Cigarette Butt."
Online at: The Eugene Register Guard Archives

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."

Available online (with subscription) at: The Oregonian Archives.

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."

Available online (with subscription) at: The Oregonian Archives.

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."

Available online (with subscription) at: The Oregonian Archives.

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."

Available online (with subscription) at: The Oregonian Archives.

Flame, vol. 2, no. 3, inside back cover, Autumn 1955
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, n. pg.
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 poem "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."

Editorial notes read,
Hearse regards Richard Brautigan, whose works appear opposite, as one of the most exciting younger poets. These two poems are from the Leslie Woolf Hedley collection, FOUR NEW POETS (Inferno Press) . . . we urge you to purchase it.

Hearse was 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. . . ." Included work by Kenneth Rexroth, Langston Hughes, Alden A. Nowlan, Clarence Major, and Brautigan.

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

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Kingdom 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.
Sixteen single sided 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, 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.

Frumkin, Gene. "A Step toward Perception." Coastlines, no. 13, Autumn 1959, p. 45.

Edited by Gene Frumkin
Paperback: 48 pages

In this, the only known review of a Brautigan book prior to 1965, Frumpkin notes the crispness of the book as a whole, even while the individual poems lack rationality. Reprints Brautigan's poems In a Cafe, Geometry, and Sonnet. Says the book speaks to the potential evolution of Brautigan's poetic method.

Also includes contributions by Pierre Henri Delattre, Lachlan MacDonald, and Robert Reiss.

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."

Cover photo of Tom Reynolds with "Parsival".
Softcover: 111 pages
5.5 x 8 inches

Also includes works by Allan Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Peter Orlovsky, Philip Whalen, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Lonore Kandel, and many more.

Beatitude vol. 18, Dec. 1960 or early, 1961
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets with illustrated front cover.

Background
First publication of the Brautigan poem "After Halloween Slump." This issue also featured work by Michael McClure, Kirby Doyle, Paolo Lionn, Stephen Schwartz, Lowell Levant, Allen Cohen, and Jerome Sheppard.

According to the introduction to Beatitude Anthology, "beginning with issue 17 BEATITUDE will issue spasmodically from the underground caves of City Lights bookstore through whose subteranean passages some of the original BEATITUDE editors may still be found."

About these issues, Warren French says, "But the subsequent issues lacked the vitality of the original ones. The seventeenth made a brave show ... But the eighteenth issue, featuring Gene Fowler's "Fuck Report," was a sad affair, carelessly typed and badly printed." (The San Francisco Poetry Renaissance, 1955-1960, Twayne Publishers, Boston, 1991, p. 50).

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

First publication of the Brautigan poem "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.

First Publication of 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.

Further information on this publication can be found on the Change and Seven Drawings page of this website.

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

First Publication of 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", Evergreen Review, no. 33, Aug.-Sept. 1964, pp. 42-47.

First Publication of 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.

TriQuarterly is the student-edited literary magazine of Northwestern University. It was originally so named due to its publishing schedule of one issue per academic "quarter." The name remains, although the schedule has shifted to being semi-annual and the format has changed to being a web journal.

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. 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.

Wild Dog, a mimeograph magazine, published a total of twenty-one issues from 1963-1966. The magazine was started by Edward Dorn in April 1963 in Pocatello, Idaho. It then moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, and from there to San Francisco, California, where it ended with Volume 3, Number 21 in March 1966.

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,"
"A Moth in Tucson, Arizona,"
"Hinged to Forgetfulness Like a Door,"
"Heroine of the Time Machine,"
"The Buses,"
"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.

TriQuarterly is the student-edited literary magazine of Northwestern University. It was originally so named due to its publishing schedule of one issue per academic "quarter." The name remains, although the schedule has shifted to being semi-annual and the format has changed to being a web journal.

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, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, March 1967
Softcover, staple bound: 26 pages
Edited by Dick Rubinstein, cover and insdide cover photographs by Frank Ettin.
6" x 9"

Reprints two Brautigan poems "My Nose is Growing Old" (p. 20) and "November 3" (p. 21), prior to their collection in All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace,

Totem is CalTech's literary magazine, established in March 1966 and now (since 2002) published annually. Brautigan spent ten days at CalTech with San Francisco poet Andrew Hoyem. They taught workshops and gave readings. LEARN more

Totem, May 1967
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Softcover, staple bound: 22 pages
Edited by Dick Rubinstein, cover illustration by Katya Giritsky.
6" x 9"

First publication of Brautigan's poem "At the California Institute of Technology" (p. 21).

Totem is CalTech's literary magazine, established in March 1966 and now (since 2002) published annually. Brautigan spent ten days at CalTech with San Francisco poet Andrew Hoyem. They taught workshops and gave readings. LEARN more

"Trout Fishing in America (1-5)", The Pacific Nation no. 1, p. 34-40, Summer 1967
First Publication of 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".

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.

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

Reprints the chapter "The Cleveland Wrecking Yard", prior to the publication of Brautigan's upcoming book Trout Fishing in America.

Nice, vol. 1, no. 1, pg. 8, 1967
Published in Brightlingsea, Essex, England, 1966-1967. Edited by Thomas Clark.
20 single sided unpaginated pages. 8x13 inches.

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.

Also includes works by Clark Coolidge, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Aram Saroyan, and many others.

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

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.
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.

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."

TriQuarterly is the student-edited literary magazine of Northwestern University. It was originally so named due to its publishing schedule of one issue per academic "quarter." The name remains, although the schedule has shifted to being semi-annual and the format has changed to being a web journal.

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 poems "California Native Flowers," (on the cover page) and "Squash," associated with the Sandy Darlington article "Please Plant This Page". This article includes a photograph by Bob Seidemann of Brautigan sitting in a wicker chair. Darlington profiles Brautigan's Please Plant This Book, using it as an example of how authors release books to their readers. Says, of "Gee, You're So Beautiful That It's Staring to Rain", "Last December, Richard Brautigan and his friends printed 2500 copies of a poem called The San Francisco Weather Report and handed them out in the financial district at noon. It hadn't rained in two weeks. A friend of his told him later of handing the poem to a secretary who began to read it out loud. After the title, the next line is Gee, You're so Beautiful That It's starting to Rain. As she read the line, raindrops started hitting the paper. She looked up at him, took a step backwards and just stared. There's so many ways to say hello."

San Francisco Express Times, vol. 1, no. 27, 24 July 1968, p. 7.
Edited by Marvin Garson.
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". Also includes writings by Huey P. Newton, R. Cobb, Tod Gitlin, Terence Cannon, Marlene Charyn, Lee Oleson, Kathy Boudin, Sandy Darlington, and others.

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" . 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.

Also includes contributions by: Antonin Artaud, Billy Batman, Peter Berg, Wally Berman, Bryden, William Burroughs, Martin Carey, Neil Cassidy, Fidel Castro, Don Cochran, Peter Cohon, Gregory Corso, Dangerfield, Kirby Doyle, Bill Frisch, Allen Ginsberg, Emmett Grogran, Dave Hazelwood, George Hermes, Linn House, Lenore Kandel, Billy Landout, Norman Mailer, Don Martin, Michael McClure, George Metesky, George Montana, Malcolm X, Natural Suzanne, Huey Newton, Pam Parker, Rose-a-Lee, David Simpson, Gary Snyder, Ron Thelin, Rip Torn, Lew Welch, Thomas Weir, and Grant Winstanley.

In exchange for Emmett Stanley printing 40,000 copies of these papers for The Diggers, Krassner allowed this content to be used for The Realist, No. 81.

The Realist, no. 81. August 1968, p. 11.
Published by The Realist Associates, New York.
Edited by Emmet Grogran
This 24 page issue consists of a title page including a "memo to the Reader" followed by the interior pages and back cover of The Digger Papers. In exchange for printing 40,000 copies of the Diggers' free edition, Paul Krassner of The Diggers allowed Grogan to use that content for this issue.
Reprints Brautigan's poem "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace"

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.
11.5" x 16", 16 pp.

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.

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.

This issue has a Beatles cover, "Rambling notes on the New Beatles Album. With Photos From the Record Sessions", and "John and Macrobiotics;Yoko Ono on her Films".

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.

This issue included an essay by Jean Genet.

Evergreen Review Reader 1957-1967: A ten-year anthology of America's leading literary magazine, Edited by Barney Rosset, New York: Grove Press, pp 558-593, 1968, p. 65.

Reprints four chapters from Brautigan's novel Trout Fishing in America: "The Hunchback Trout", "Room 208, Hotel Trout Fishing in America", "The Surgeon", and "The Cleveland Wrecking Yard".

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

This issue has an MC5 cover, "Traffic Breaks Up", "Jose Feliciano", "Taj Mahal", "Janis Joplin's New Band" and a lengthly article by Jon Landau on the Rolling Stone's new album, "Beggar's Banquet."

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

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

This issue also includes a Jimi Hendrix cover, "The Year in Review and the Rolling Stone Awards", "Memphis Debut of Janis Joplin", and "Seige of Filmore East".

Rolling Stone, no. 27, 15 February 1969, p. 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."

This issue includes "The GROUPIES and Other Girls."

The American Literary Anthology. The Second Annual Collection of the best from the literary magazines. 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.

Contributions selected by Vance Bourjally, Mark Harris, Phillip Roth, Robert Duncan, Anne Sexton, Louis Simpson, Albert Guerard, Ragore Shattuck, and John Simon.

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 vol. 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."

Julie and the Tigers cover, Michaelangelo and "Zabriskie Point"

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

First publication of Brautigan's story "Forgiven."

Janis Joplin cover, Bob Dylan, Timothy Leary, Roller Derby.

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

First publication of Brautigan's story "Elmira."

"American Revolution 1969" Special Issue, Jim Morrison and the Doors, with an inserted supplement.

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

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

Sun Ra cover, "Earthquake! California Fears Itself."

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."

Traffic cover, Steve Winwood, Jim Morrison.

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.

The band, Big Pink, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan

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

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

Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

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."

Nudie Cohn cover, "John and Yoko in Bed Again"

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

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

Elvis comeback cover and storiy, Pete Townshend, Beatles

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

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

A Brian Jones memoriam cover and story.

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."

Joe Cocker cover, Beatles, Easy Rider, Blind Faith, Bob Dylan

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

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

Woodstock Issue, Beatles:w

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."

"Special Beauty Issue"

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."

Miles Davis cover, Mick Jagger and the Stones, Robbie Robertson.

Poetry, vol. cxv, no. 1, Oct. 1969, p. 30.
Published by Modern Poetry Association, Chicago, IL
Paperback: 70 pages

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Wood." This was his first appearance in this journal, founded by Harriet Monroe with help from Ezra Pound in 1912. Brautigan did not appear again in Poetry until this same poem was used as a memorial tribute in December of 1984.

Also includes poems by John Hollander, Frederic Hill, William Dickey, Alan Kanfer, Sam Bradley, Ross Felt, Arthur Gregor, Ron Koethe, Margaret Randall, Robert Pack, James Atlas, Henry Braun, Maurice Jay, F. D. Reeve, Peter Schjeldahl, Michael Mesik, Benjamin K. Bennett, and Calvin Forbes.

Edited by Daryl Hine
Cover illustration by David Hill.

The American Literary Anthology. The Third Annual Collection of the best from the literary magazines. 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.

Contributions selected by Donald Barthelme, Joyce Carol Oates, Max Steele, Denis Levertov, William Stafford, Reed Whitemore, Richard Ellmann, Brenan Gill, and Dwight Macdonald.

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

Jane Birkin cover, Anthony Burgess essay "Woman and Women."

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.
Cover illustration by Steen Svensson,

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.

America: "A Pitiful Giant", Alan Ginsberg, George Harrison, Jackson State.

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

First publication of Brautigan's story "Atlantisburg."

Charles Manson cover and Special Report.

"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."

With Gunilla Linbland cover and Hermann Hesse story "Klein and Wagner."

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

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

Davd Crosby cover, CSN&Y, Byrds, New Bob Dylan

"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.

Gunilla Linbland cover, Kurt Vonnegut's "ip is Better than Down", Samule Beckett's "The Smeraldina's Billet Doux":w

Kaleidoscope-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."

Included Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton comics.

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."

Rascals cover, "Freak power in the Rockies" by Hunter S. Thompson.

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

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.

Includes the first appearance of Ernest Hemminway's "Bimini" from his upcoming novel Islands in the Stream.

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.
344 pages.

First publication of three Brautigan stories: "Corporal," "The Literary Life in California/1964," and "Halloween in Denver."
Shay Knuth cover, Carol Imhof as playmate. "Sex Stars of 1970" featuring Raquel Welch, Candace Bergen Usula Andressm Fay Dunaway, Paula Prentiss, Natalie Wood, Cynthia Myers and others. "Master and Johns Explode Sex Myths." Fiction by Michael and Dougles Crichton (as Michael Douglas), Paul Theroux, and PG Wodehouse. Comis include Zap, Snatch, and Little Annie Fannie. Essays by Murray Kempton and William F. Buckley.

Man: In the Poetic Mode, Vol. 3. Edited by Joy Zwiegler. McDougal, Littell & Company, 1970
Paperback, small octavo, 122 pages

Reprints three poems by Brautigan: "Good Talking Candle," "It's Raining In Love," and "Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4."

Man: In the Poetic Mode, Vol. 4. Edited by Joy Zwiegler. McDougal, Littell & Company, 1970
Paperback, small octavo, 122 pages
Cover photograph: Egyptian Brooch by William Seabright.

Reprints six poems by Brautigan: "Your Catfish Friend," "The First Winter Snow," "A Lady," "Gee, You're So Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain," "Xerox Candy Bar," and "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace."

Also includes poems by e.e. cummngs, James Dickey, Emily Dickenson, Denise Levertov, Rod McKuen, Howard Nemerov, Richard Wilbur, and William Carlos Williams.

"A Trout Fishing Sampler (from Trout Fishing in America)", The Troubled Vision, Edited by Jerome Cahryn, London, Collier Books, pp. 497-510, 1970
Paperback, 510 pages

Reprints five chapters from Brautigan's novel, Trout Fishing in America: Knock on Wood Part One, Knock on Wood Part Two, Red Lip, Trout Fishing in America with the FBI, and The Cleveland Wrecking Yard.

This "Anthology of Contemporary Short Novels" also includes selections from works by James Baldwin, Bernard Malamud, Flannery O.Connor, William H. Gass, Leonard Cohen, Nathaniel West, Flann O.Brian, Norman Mailer, Rudolph Wurlitzer, and Heinrich Böll.

"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."

Cover by Yvonne Jacquette

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."

Catherine Denevue cover, Alfred Kazin's "The Prince, American Style," Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s "Politics, 1971," Albert Goldmans's "The Audience as Artist," and Herbert Gold's "God, Love, and the American Identity."

Oz, no. 35, [London], May 1971
"Special Pig Issue"

Reprints Brautigan's poem Flowers for Those You Love.

Also includes work by Jim Haynes, Jim Anderson, Stanislav Demidjuk, and a Spider Joy cartoon by S. Clay Wilson

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. Mark's 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 publication 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.

Available online (with subscription) at: https://sfexaminer.newspapers.com/image/460419270/

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

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."

Doris Lessing's "Sufism: an Ancient Way to New Freedom", and Harold Pinter's poem "All of That."

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

First publication of the Brautigan poem "Crow Maiden."

Also included Jose Luis Borges' strory "Tom Castro, the Implausible Imposter", a previously unpublished George Bernard Shaw essay, "Our Lost Honesty,", poetry by William Stafford, and a story by Jack Richardson.

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

Reprints 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, pp. 293-97, 304-305., 1971
339 pages
ISBN 10: 0345222199
ISBN 13: 9780345222190

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.

Cover price $1.65
Interviews conducted by David Meltzer with six poets associated with the San Francisco Literary Rennaissance of the 1950s-1960s and the Beats of the 1950s. The poets talk about their lives and work. Also featured chronologies of the poets, bibliographies of their works, bookstores that might carry that work, a list of poetry printers, and a list of poetry classes.

The poets interviewed were William Everson (Brother Antoninus), Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Kenneth Rexroth, and Lew Welch, and Richard Brautigan.

Instead of being formally interviewed, Brautigan was allowed to write his own "self-interview," titled "Old Lady," in which he described his relationship with poetry. See Non-Fiction > Essays.

In an interview with John Barber (2005), Meltzer offered interesting reasons for incorporating Brautigan's unusual "interview" in this book. READ this interview.

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"
ISBN 10: 0912078162
ISBN 13: 9780912078168
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."

An overview of the San Francisco poetry scene in the early 1970s. Also featured poets Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Wieners, George Oppen, Joanne Kyger, Pete Winslow, Kenneth Rexroth, Lew Welch, Ishmael Reed, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, William Everson, Gary Snyder, 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, pp. xii, 22-26, 185., 1971
6.5" x 9.5", 190 pages
ISBN 10: 0534001378
ISBN 13: 9780534001377
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.

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.

In Trout Country. Edited by Peter Corodimus. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., pp. 10-16, 231-234, 1971
Hardcover with jacket, 300 pages
ISBN 13: 2221199349705

Reprints two chapters from Brautigan's novel Trout Fishing in America: "The Cleveland Wrecking Yard" and "The Hunchback Trout".

"A sunny and pleasantly dappled collection of short stories and pieces about trout fishing." (Kirkus Reviews).

new fiction, non-fiction. Edited by John Mahoney and John Schmittroth. Cambridge, MA: Winthrop, pp. 227-230, 1971
Hardcover, 255 pages
Cover photograph by Eric Anderson
ISBN 10: 0876266049
ISBN 13: 9780876266045

Reprints the "Trout Fishing in America Terrorists" chapter from Brautigan's novel Trout Fishing in America.

Other contributors include: Truman Capote, William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Jesse Owens, Malcolm X., Bobby Seale, Abbie Hoffman, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, and Oliver Goldsmith.

Story: An Introduction to Prose Fiction, 2nd edition. Edited by Arthur Foff and Daniel Knapp. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishers, pp. 36-38, 1971
521 pages

Reprints the "Trout Fishing in America Terrorists" chapter from Brautigan's novel Trout Fishing in America.

Other contributors include: William Saroyan, Katherine Anne Porter, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Hans Christian Andersen, Guy de Maupassant, Ernest Hemmingway, Alber Camus, Eudora Welty, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Issac Bashevis Singer, Virginia Woolf, Saul Bellow, Donald Barthelme, Graham Greene, Anton Chekhov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Mann, Leo Tolstoi, Franz Kafka, Henry James, Stephen Crane, James Joyce, and D.H. Lawrence.

The Last Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools, edited by Steward Brand, Menlo Park, CA: Portola, Institute, pp. 254,395, 1971
Paperbound: 446 pages
10-5/8" x 14-3/8"
Reprints excerpts from four chapters of Brautigan's novel Trout Fishing in America: Knock on Wood (Part 1), Red Lip, The Cleveland Wrecking Yard, and Trout Fishing on the Bevel.
Also reprints, in its entirety, Brautigan's poem The Memoirs of Jesse James.

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.

Also included pieces by Dvid Halbrestam, Peter Bogdanovitch, and Nora Webster. Also a Tennesee Williams essay, "Survival Notes: A Journal."

Place: See America First, Vol. II, Issue No. 1, 1972
Trade Paperback: 216 pages
Edited by Baine Kerr
Cover photograph by Roger Minick
Natural Wonders, San Francisco: 1972
9" x 12"
Reprints Brautigan's essay The Overland Journey of Joseph Francl: The First Bohemian to Cross the Plains to the California Gold Fields.

Also includes: photography portfolios on Emmet Gowin, Tom Zimmerman, Neil Morse, and Margo Davis; photo-essays by Geoff Winningham, Stewart Brand, and Ron Shuman; and writing by Scott Turow, Molly Ivins, George McGovern, J.D. Smith, Adrienne Rich, Gurney Norman, William Pitt Root, Ed McClanahan, Chet Flippo and others.

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."

The Best American Short Stories 1972. Edited by Martha Foley. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1972, p. 393.
ISBN 10: 0345031563
ISBN 13: 9780345031563

Reprints Brautigan's story "The World War I Los Angeles Airplane", along with stories by M.F. Beal, Kelly Cherry, Herbert Gold, Joanne Greenberg, Mary Heath, Edward M. Holmes, Mary Gray Hughes, Ann Jones, Ward Just, Roberta Kalechofsky, Rebecca Kavaler, John L'Heureux, Ralph Maloney, Marvin Mandell, Cynthia Ozick, Joe Asby Porter, Penelope Street, Robert Penn Warren, theodore Wessner, and Jose Yglesias.

The Exploited Eden: Literature on the American Environment. Edited by Robert Gangewere. New York: Harper and Row, 1972, p. 376.
Paperback. 396 pages.
ISBN 10: 0060422262
ISBN 13: 9780060422264

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

The New Consciousness: An Anthology of the New Literature. Edited by Albert J. La Valley. Cambridge, CA: Winthrop Publishers, 1972, pp. 352-357.
Paperback: 567 pages
ISBN 10: 0876266022
ISBN 13: 9780876266021

Reprints two chapters from Brautigan's novel Trout Fishing in America: "The Kool-Aid Wino" . "Trout Fishing in America Terrorists" .

Also includes a critique of Brautigan's novels.

Esquire, Vol LXXXI, no. 3, p. 168, March 1973

First publication of Brautigan's story "All the People That I Didn't Meet and the Places That I Didn't Go".

Also features "Lost in New York" by John Irvine, and contributions by Peter Bodanovich and Nora Ephron.

Blue Suede Shoes, .424, 1973, 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 Twenty First Century Communications, New York, New York.

First publication of two stories by Brautigan: "A Feeling of Helplessness" and "The Last of My Armstrong Spring Creek 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 two pages.

This issue of the magazine was the first under a new publisher and a new title. The previous (April) issue had contained an article titled "After the First Kiss, Where Do you Go," that included eplicit discussions of sexual conduct. This led to a renaming of the magazine from "Ingenue" to "The New Ingenue" and an editorial in the May issue apologizing for the "mistake in judgement" under the previous publisher.

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."

An anthology 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.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "For Fear You Will Be Alone."
Three line poem illustrated with photograph by Edmund Shea.

Available online (with subscription) at: https://sfexaminer.newspapers.com/image/460852789/

The Stone Wall Book of Short Fictions. Eds. Robert Coover and Kent Dixon. Stone Wall Press, 1973

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

This anthology of 25 short fictions also includes works by W.S. Mervin, Jorge Luis Borges, Joyce Carol Oates, Donald Batrheleme, Elie Wessel, the editors, and many others.

Shake the Kaleidoscope: A New Anthology of Modern Poetry. Edited by Milton Klonsky. Simon & Schuster, 1973
Softcover, 332 pages, 18cm
ISBN 10: 0671785788
ISBN 13: 9780671785789

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 Secret Life of our Times: New Fiction from Esquire. Edited by Gordon Lish. Knopf Doubleday, pp. 349-354, 1973
Hardcover, 641 pages
Introduction by Tom Wolfe
ISBN 10: 038506215X
ISBN 13: 9780385062152

Reprints Brautigan's story "The Lost Chapters of Trout Fishing in America 'Rembrant Creek' and 'Carthage Sink'."

Also includes stories by John Barth, John Gardner, John Irvine, Don Delillo, Joyce Carol Oates, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, and others.

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

The Art of Fiction, 2nd Edition. Edited by Richard A. Dietrich and Roger H. Sundel. New York: Holt, Reinhart & Winston. pp. 458-460, 1974
Paperback, 532 pages
ISBN 10: 003089221X
ISBN 13: 9780030892219

Reprints Brautigan's story "Homage to the San Francisco YMCA."
Also includes stories by Henry James, William Carlos Williams, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad, John Steinbeck, John Updike, Ralph Ellison, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and many more.

The Beatles' Illustrated Lyrics. Dell, 1975.
208 pages
ISBN 10: 1738705226
ISBN 13: 9781738705221
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.

TriQuarterly is the student-edited literary magazine of Northwestern University. It was originally so named due to its publishing schedule of one issue per academic "quarter." The name remains, although the schedule has shifted to being semi-annual and the format has changed to being a web journal.

This issue aslo included stories by Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jose Luis Borges, Ron Lowinsohn, and many more.

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.

This essay along with other pieces from this publication were included in the 1977 book "Space Colonies."

Poems Here and Now. Edited by David Kherdian. Greenwillow Books, 1976
Illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian
64 pages
ISBN 10: 0688800246
ISBN 13: 9780688800246

Reprints two poems by Brautigan: "The Chinese Checker Players" and "The Horse That Had A Flat Tire."
Also includes poems by William Carlos Williams, Robert Creeley, Sam Homod, Jim Gibbons, and many others.

The Short Story: An Introduction. Wilfred Stone, Nancy Packer, and Robert Hoopes. New York: McGraw Hill Humanities/Social, pp. 3, 4, 17, 572-573, 1976
Paperback: 598 pages
ISBN 10: 0070616892
ISBN 13: 9780070616899

Reprints the chapter "The Cleveland Wrecking Yard", from Brautigan's novel Trout Fishing in America.

Transatlantic Review, no. 58/59, 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."

Also included works by Paul Theroux, Te Hughes, James Farell, Myra Goldberg, Jean Valentine, Richard Elman, Heathcote Williams, and others.

"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."

Also includes articles "Colorado's Teluride, Rocky Mountain Hideout", "Footloose in Kauai's Lost Valley", "Greenpeace - Ecology with Guts", "A Backpacking Camera" "How to Build a Hot Tub", and "Country Living and Thomas McGuane".

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

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

Also included Richard Adam's review of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Simarillion.

Space Colonies:A Coevolution Book, 1977.
Edited by Stewart Brand
Whole Earth Catalog and Penguin Books
Paperback: 160 pages
ISBN 10: 0140048057
ISBN 13: 9780140048056

Reprints Brautigan's essay "Owls."

Also included contributions from Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carl Sagan/Lynn Margulis, Wendall Berry, R. Buckminster Fuller, Lewis Mumford, and many others. Black-and-white illustrations throughout.

The Small Town in American Literature, Second Edition, pp. 264-279, 1977.
Edited by David . Cook and Craig G. Swauger
Paperback: 288 pages
Harper & Row, New York: 1977
ISBN 10: 0060413549

Reprints the following chapters from Brautigan's novel Trout Fishing in America: Prolog to Girder Creek, Tom Martin Creek, The Teddy Roosevelt Chingader', A Note on the Camping Craze That is Currently Sweeping America, The Last Time I Saw Trout Fishing in America, and The Cleveland Wrecking Yard.

Also included contributions from Edward Eggleston, E.W. Howe, Samuel L. Clemens, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Margaret Deland, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, Edgar Lee Masters, Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, Ring Lardner, Erskine Caldwell, e.e. cummings, John O'Hara, William Saroyan, Tennesee Williams, Shirley Jackson, Ralph Ellison, James Agee, John Updike, and Joyce Carol Oates.

Dugdale, Anthony. "Romantic Renegades." Architectural Design, vol. 48, no. 7, 1978
27.8 x 22.4 cm

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

The Art of Fiction, 3rd Edition. Edited by Richard A. Dietrich and Roger H. Sundel. New York: Holt, Reinhart & Winston, pp. 12-13, 1978
Paperback, 458 pages
ISBN 10: 0030392217
ISBN 13: 9780030392214

Reprints Brautigan's story "Homage to the San Francisco YMCA."
Also includes stories by Henry James, William Carlos Williams, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad, John Steinbeck, John Updike, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and many more.

Hulesberg, Richard A., Intructors Manual for The Art of Fiction, 3rd Edition. Edited by Richard A. Dietrich and Roger H. Sundel. New York: Holt, Reinhart & Winston. pp. 1-4, 1978
Paperback, 135 pages, 23 cm
ISBN 13: 9780030393860

Reprints Brautigan's story "Homage to the San Francisco YMCA."

"Four Stories for Aki and Other Treats." California Living, 14 January 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 first two stories: "The Short Story" and "Walking Toward December," were not collected. The other five were all collected in The Tokyo-Montana Express, where "Her Last Known Boyfriend" was retitled "Her Last Known Boyfriend a Canadian Airman."

Available online (with subscription) at: https://sfexaminer.newspapers.com/image/461060294/

The CoEvolution Quarterly, no. 21, Spring, 21 March 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").

Faith and Fiction: The Modern Short Story, Edited by Robert Detweiler and Glenn Meeter. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, p. 173-176, 1979
Paperback: 314 pages
ISBN 10: 0802817378
ISBN 13: 9780802817374

Reprints the chapter "The Kool-Aid Wino", from Brautigan's novel Trout Fishing in America.

From the preface: "Our anthology is concerned not so much with religion and literature as with the religion of literature."

Also includes works by Jorge Luis Borges, John Barth, Flannery O'Connor,Gabriel García Márquez, John Updike, Samuel Becket, and more.

Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories, Edited by Eric S. Rabkin. Oxford University Press, p. 173-176, 1979
Hardcover: 496 pages
8.58" x 5.54"
ISBN 10: 0195025415
ISBN 13: 9780195025415

Reprints Brautigan's story "Homage to the San Francisco YMCA."

Also includes tales from Genesis, Ovid, Hans Christian Anderson, J.R.R. Tolkein, Edgar Allen Poe, James Thurber, Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, and others.

Updike and Brautigan, Tokyo: Wako Publishing (和広出版), 1979
edited by Hirami Makino (牧野晴美) and Minko Takahasi

Reprints Brautigan's stories "The Post Offices of Eastern Oregon," "A Long Time Ago People Decided to Live in America." and "The World War I Los Angeles Airplane."

An English language textbook for Japanese Students.

West Coast Fiction: Modern Writing from California, Oregon and Washington, edited and with an introduction by James D. Hudson, New York: Bantam Books, pp. 43-54, 1979
Wrappers: 389 pages
ISBN 10: 0553131389
ISBN 13: 9780553131383

Reprints five chapters from Brautigan's novel, Trout Fishing in America: Knock on Wood (Part One), Knock on Wood (Part Two), Tom Martin Creek, The Hunchback Trout (here listed as "Trout Fishing in America"), and The Cleveland Wrecking Yard.

Also includes contributions from Alice Adams, Raymond Chandler, Tillie Olsen, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Maxine Hong Kingston, John Steinbeck, Ishmael Reed, Tom Robbins, Thomas Sanchez, and more.

In the back is a short biography of Brautigan that reads:
"Richard Brautigan was born in Tacoma, Washington, growing up there and in Portland, Oregon. He has been living in the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1950s, writing the whimsical and unorthodox work that made him a counterculture hero and one of America's most widely read authors. His first published novel was A Confederate General in Big Sur (1964). The book that made him famous was Trout Fishing in America (1967). Since then he has published numerous works of prose and poetry, among them In Watermelon Sugar (1968), Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt (1970), Revenge of the Lawn (1971). The Hawkline Monster (1974), and Dreaming of Babylon (1977), a parody of the west coast detective novel."

Postcard Poems: A Collection of Poetry for Sharing
Edited by Paul B. Janeczko. Scarsdale, NY: Bradbury Press, 1979
Soft cover: 104 pages
ISBN 10: 0027477509
ISBN 13: 9780027477504
A collection of 104 brief poems.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "In a Cafe."

Also included poetry by William Carlos Williams, Langston Huges, Ezra Pound, Sharles Simac, Cid Corman, and Carl Sandburg.

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.

Also includes works by Beatrice Green, Gertrude Atherton, W.S. Di Piero, and Osip Mandelstam. Cover art by Herman Mhire.

The Imagined City: San Francisco in the Minds of It's Writers, 1980, pp. 22-23
Trade paperback, with printed wrappers; 96 pages.
Edited by John van der Zee and Boyd Jacobson.
Published by California Living Books in cooperation with Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.
Based on an exhibit by van der Zee and Jacobsoon that was sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.
ISBN 10: 0893950432
ISBN 13: 9780893950439

From the back of the book: "This book is a unique depiction of San Francisco in the words of 37 authors as they have described it in their books. Each quote is played against a striking photograph that illustrates the city of their imaginations."

Includes Brautigan biographical informaton, quotes regarding San Francisco and fame, and reprints an excerpt of the chapter "The Shipping of Trout Fishing in America Shorty to Nelson Algren", from Brautigan's novel Trout Fishing in America.
Two photographs are also on these pages, one a portrait of Brautigan by Erik Weber and one from the San Francisco Examiner of a homeless person sleeping at the base of a building.

Also features the writings of Maya Angelou, Ambrose Bierce, Dorothy Bryant, Herb Caen, Don Carpenter, Evan Connel, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Herbert Gold, Dashiell Hammet, Eric Hoffer, Jack Kerouac, Jack London, Ella Leff. William Saroyan, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Mark Twain.

"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.

Lauren Bacall cover and story.

The Best of Triquarterly, Edited by Jonathan Brent. New York: Washing Square Press, 1982, pp. 5-11.
Paperback: 181 pages
ISBN 10: 0671434195
ISBN 13: 9780671434199

Reprints Brautigan's stories "Revenge of the Lawn", and "A Short History of Religion in California".
Also includes contributions by Stanley Elkin, William Gass, John Gardner, John Hawkes, Maxine Kumin, Joyce Carol Oates, John Sayles, Issac B. Singer, and many others.

"よる に 流れる 革" 朝日 新聞, [Tokyo, Japan], Evening Edition, 6 June 1983, p. 5.
("Yoru ni nagareru kawa". Asahi Shinbun)
Translated by 谷川 俊太郎 (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.

C/O. C/O Scorribanda Productions, September, 1984, p. 21.
Published by Scorribanda Productions, Riva San Vitale and Patriza Vincelli, Bologna, Italy
Cardboard box, 30.5 x 21.5 x 2 cm.
74 pages, each 30 x 21.5 cm, some copies also include a colophon.
Numbered edition of 500 copies.

A publication led by Italian writer Franco Beltrametti with Gianni Castagnoli, Patrizia Vicinelli, and John Gian. Franco Beltrametti Archive website. This issue of C/O, featured contributions from American and European poets and artists. Among the American contributors were Ted Berrigan, Richard Brautigan, Gary Snyder, and Jack Spicer.

Includes the first publication of Brautigan's drawing "not forgotten", which was later incorporated into Richard Brautigan & Harry Hoogstraten—Seven Drawings

Brautigan, Richard. "Richard Brautigan 1935-1984." Poetry, vol. cxlv, no. 3, Dec. 1984, p. 178.
Published by Modern Poetry Association, Chicago, IL
Paperback: 181 pages

Reprints Brautigan's poem "Wood" as a tribute in "News Notes" section. This same poem was the intial Poetry appearance of Brautigan in the October 1969 issue.

Also includes poetry by Robert Gibb, David Bottoms, Pamela Uschuk, Erica Funkhouser, Martin Mc Govern, John Wilson, Kat A. Murphy, Robert Morgan, Kick Allen, Sue Owen, Joan Aleshure, Elizabeth Spires, David St. John, J/P. White, and Reg Saner.

Edited by Joseph Parisi.
Cover illustration by John de Pol.

Story: Fictions Past and Present, Edited by Boyd Litzinger and Joyce Carol Oates. D.C. Wilminton, MA: Heath & Co., 1984, pp. 880-885.
Paperback: 1076 pages
ISBN 10: 0669065877
ISBN 13: 9780669065876

Reprints Brautigan's stories "Revenge of the Lawn", and "A Short History of Religion in California".

Cybernetic, Volume 2, Number 1, The American Society for Cybernetics, Fairfax, VA, p. 39, 1986
Magazine issue titled SOCIAL VIOLENCE
Edited by Robert Kniseley, Bruce MacIntosh, Paul Panaro, and Paul Tractman.
Designed by Bruce Macintosh, Scott Kim, and Paul Trachtman.
Cover shows a photograph of a Stretch Rumaner sculpture by Sean Murphy.
Introduction by Paul Trachtman.

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

Also includes works by Francisco J. Varela, Jef Raskin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bradford P. Keeny, Brian K. Rushford, Edward E. Sampson, Scott Kim, Tyrone Cashman, Humberto R. Maturama, Peggy Penn, William Bronk, Ernest von Glaserfield, Patricia T. Clough, and Norman Weiner. Graphics by Charley Barscotti, Dan Oliver, and Bruce Macintosh.

Available online at: https://monoskop.org/images/f/ff/Cybernetic_Vol_2_No_1_1986.pdf

Shannon, L. R. "The Promise, the Reality and the Hope." New York Times, 8 December 1987, p. C9 (overall page 73)
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."

Available online (with subscription) at: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser/

American Short Story Masterpieces, Delacorte Press, pp. 59-62, 1987
edited by Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks
Hardcover: 435 pages
Delacorte Press, New York: 1987
ISBN 10: 0385295243
ISBN 13: 9780385295246
6.5 x 9-3/8 inches
Reprints Brautigan's story 1/3, 1/3, 1/3, as well as stories by James Baldwin, Raymond Carver, E.L. Doctorow, John Gardner, Ursula K Le Guin, Artur Millerm Flannery O.Connor, Phillip Roth, John Updike, and many others.

The Norton Book of American Short Stories, W.W. Norton, pp. 622-626, 1988
edited by Peter S. Prescott
Hardcover: 779 pages
W.W. Norton, New York: 1988
ISBN 10: 0393026191
ISBN 13: 9780393026191
5.75 x 9.25 inches
Reprints Brautigan's story Revenge of the Lawn, as well as stories by Ben Franklin, Michael Martone, Shirley Jackson, Stephen Crane, Joan Aiken, and many others.

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

This memoir includes the first publication of Brautigan's poems "Somehow We Live and Die Again," "Reflection," and "Death Growth."

Sudden Fiction International. Sixty Short Short Stories, W.W. Norton, pp. 119-120, 1989
edited by Robert Shepard and James Thomas
introduction by Charles Baxter
Hardcover: 342 pages
Norton, New York: 1989
ISBN 10: 0393306135
ISBN 10: 9780393306132
Reprints Brautigan's story The Weather in San Francisco, as well as stories by Monica Wood, Ron Carlson, Bharati Mukherjee, and many others.

Barber, John F. Richard Brautigan: An Annotated Bibliography. McFarland, 1990, p. 4.
Hardcover: 236 pages
ISBN 10: 0899595252
ISBN 13: 9780899595251

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Rendezvous."

This was the the first extensive bibliography of Richard Brautigan's works.

Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories. Edited by James Thomas, Tom Hazuka, and Denis Thomas, W.W. Norton and Co., pp. 94-96, 1992
Paperback: 224 pages
5.5" X 8.25"
ISBN 10: 0393308839
ISBN 13: 9780393308839

Reprints Brautigan's Story "Corporal."

Also includes stories by Raymond Carver, Margaret Atwood, Julio Cortazar, Tim O'Brian, and many others.

Reading Our World: The Guelph Anthology, Ginn Press, 1993
Edited by Constance Rooke, Reneé Hulan and Linda Warley
Cover Art by Suzy Lake shows a person peering through binoculars
Ginn Press, USA: 1993
ISBN 10: 0536583234
ISBN 13: 9780536583239
Reprints Brautigan's Story 1/3, 1/3, 1/3.
Also contains contributions from Constance Rooke, Reneé Hulan, Linda Warley, Clark Balise, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Conner, Richard Ford, Rohinton Mistry, Albert Camus, Robert Frost, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Elliot, and Phillip Larkin.

Where Coyotes Howl and Wind Blows Free: Growing Up in the West, University of Nevada Press, pp. 188-191, 1995
Edited by Alexandra Russell Haslam and Gerald W. Haslam
Hardcover: 224 pages
University of Nevada Press: 1 May 1995
ISBN 10: 0874172551
ISBN 13: 9780874172553
6.25 x 9.5 inches
Reprints the third "chapter" of Brautigan's novel So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away, here titled Funeral Child.
Includes 35 sections from 32 authors, including Cyra McFadden, Wallace Stegner, Clark Brown, and Boa-Tan Troung.

a visit from jake, X-Ray, no. 6, Winter 1996
A limited edition of 300 numbered and 26 lettered copies.

Included a chapbook that is the first publication of the short Brautigan novel A Visit From Jake, extracted from the upcoming Brautigan collection I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye. The chapbook was laid in as a separate item.

An additional 100 copies were produced and, when later rediscovered, were included in X-Ray Spare Parts Grab Bag No. 1.

Other contributors include Charles Bukowski, Billy Childish, Neeli Cherovski, Jack Micheline, Mark Faigenbaum, and others.

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.
Richard Ogar
127 pages

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.

Postmodern American Fiction: a Norton Anthology, W.W. Norton, pp. 37-42, 1998
Paperback: 704 pages
W.W. Norton and Company: 17 September 1997
ISBN 10: 039331698X
ISBN 13: 9780393316988
5.75 x 9.25 inches

Reprints two chapters from Brautigan's novel Trout Fishing in America: The Cover of Trout Fishing in America and Trout Death by Port Wine.

Also includes words by Thomas Pynchon, William S. Burroughs, Donald Barthelme, Kurt Vonnegut, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Art Spiegelman, Toni Morrison, E.L. Doctorow, Umberto Eco, and many more.

Mini-Fiction, Ikubundo, 1999
( ミニ・フィクション)
edited by Kiyoshi Nakayama (中山　喜代市) and Toshiko Ishihara (石原　敏子)
104 pages
Ikubundo Co., Ltd. (株式会社 郁文堂), Toyko: 28 April 1999
ISBN 13: 9784261020397
English Language textbook for Japanese students.
Reprints Brautigan's story Corporal as well as works by Alice Walker, Raymond Carver, and others.

Unfolding Beauty: Celebrating California's Landscapes, Heyday, Santa Clara, pp. 84-88, 2000
Edited and with an introduction by Terry Beers
Paperback: 402 pages
ISBN 10: 1890771341
ISBN 13: 9781890771348
5.25 x 9.25 inches Reprints two chapters from Brautigan's novel Trout Fishing in America, Tom Martin Creek and The Hunchback Trout. Also contains contributions from Rpbert Louis Stevenson, Wallace Stegner, William Saroyan, Gretel Ehrlich, Charles Buokski, and many others.

Wells, Tim, editor. Hardest Part Rising, no. 22, 2000.

Published in London, England by poet and editor Tim Wells.
This special Brautigan issue is a tribute to the author. Says Wells, "We've a few poems, articles, and interviews from people whose lives have been touched by Brautigan's writing. He is currently undergoing somewhat of a renaissance in Britain at the moment, and some of that interest is filtering through to a new generation of American writers previously unfamiliar with his work.

"Though some of his poetry is decidedly 60s his writing is a delightful insight to the world. Brautigan's economy and distillation of worlds particularly impress me. Brautigan was there in the Hemingway, Greek Anthology way of doing things. Let it say what it's got to say, then shut the hell up. It's great to read American writers who know how to contain a thought. It's great to read writers from wherever come to that. Rising has always appreciated concise writing.

"The idea for this issue came from a 19 year old who got excited about a Brautigan book I'd taken to a poetry reading. It was great to see such enthusiasm from a writer currently not topping the best seller lists nor writing about vampires."

Reprints Brautigan's story "An Unlimited Supply of 35 Millimeter Film" and Brautigan's poem "The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster."

Contributions by Jim Chandler ("A Quarters Worth of Brautigan," first appearing in Planet Detroit circa 1984), Tim Wells ("So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away"), Steve Cannon ("Pale Marble Movie"), Arlis Mongold ("The Ghost Children of Tacoma"), Bette O'Callaghan ("Hook, Line & Sinker"), Nathan Penlington ("Almost Nearly"), Nina Penlington ("A Study in Roads"), Alan Catlin ("Richard Brautigan's Last Hurrah"), and Gerald Locklin ("The Big Easy') refer specifically to Brautigan or his works. Other contributions may be inspired by Brautigan or written as tributes to him. Illustrated with photographs of some of the contributors holding copies of Brautigan's books.

Portions of this tribute appear in the Brautigan Book Club zine Issue 1 - Special Edition, November 2012

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.

Pipilotti Rist, Phaidon Press, pp. 98,101, 2001 paperback: 160 pages
Phaidon Press: 13 September 2001
ISBN 10: 0714839655
ISBN 13: 9780714839653
10" x 11.5"
Reprints Brautigan's story The Irrevocable Sadness of Her Thank You, as a part of the chapter "Artist's Choice", which also contains Anne Sexton's poem, "Barefoot."
Also includes a survey of Rist's works by Peggy Phelan, an interview with Rist by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and a psychological examination of Rist's 1988 work "(Absolutions) Pipilotti's Mistakes" by Elisabeth Bronfen.

New York State Regents Exams Comprehensive English Test
Wednesday, 19 June 2002, 9:15—12:15 AM.

This exam reprints Brautigan's poem, "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace." Instructions read, "After you have read the passages and answered the multiple-choice questions, write a unified essay about the coexistence of humans and computers as revealed in the passages. In your essay, use ideas from both passages to establish a controlling idea about the coexistence of humans and computers. Using evidence from each passage, develop your controlling idea and show how the author uses specific literary elements or techniques to convey that idea."

Four questions, with multiple choice answers related to the poem were provided. The questions and their answers (emphasis) were:

1. What does the speaker suggest about the relationship between mammals and computers in cybernetic meadow?
(1) They influence each other in positive ways.
(2) They compete with each other for domination.
(3) They are unaware of each other's existence.
(4) They tend to avoid each other.

2. In lines 9 through 16, the poet uses images of both
(1) past and present
(2) nature and technology
(3) death and eternity
(4) age and youth

3. The expressions in parentheses (lines 1 and 2, 10, and 18) convey a sense of
(1) eagerness
(2) anger
(3) loneliness
(4) curiosity

4. The speaker implies that, in a cybernetic ecology, machines will have a role as
(1) artists
(2) commanders
(3) guardians
(4) jailers

City Wilds: Essays and Short Stories about Urban Nature, University of Georgia Press, pp. 299-303, 2002
edited by Terell F. Dixon
Paperback: 336 pages
University of Georgia Press: 28 February 2002
ISBN 10: 082032339X
ISBN 13: 9780820323398
6 x 9 inches
Reprints The Cleveland Wrecking Yard, a chapter from Brautigan's novel Trout Fishing in America.

The Portable Sixties Reader. Penguin Classics, pp. 439-435, 2002
Edited Ann Charters
Paperback: 672 pages
Penguin Classics, 31 December 2002
ISBN 10: 0142001945
ISBN 13: 9780142001943
6 x 9 inches
Reprints The Cleveland Wrecking Yard, a chapter from Brautigan's novel Trout Fishing in America, as well as works by James Baldwin, Thomas Merton, Susan Sontag, Allen Ginsberg, Rachel Carson, Kate Millett, Nikki Giovanni, and many more.

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 (a Hunter S. Thompson photograph), Bern Porter, A.D. Winans, and others. Johnny Brewton edited this work.

California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present, Heyday Edited by Dana Gioia, Chryss Yost, and Jack Hicks
Paperback: 408 pages
ISBN 10: 1809771724
ISBN 13: 9781890771720
6 x 9 inches
Reprints Brautigan's poem "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace", as well as works by Bret Harte, Ina Coolrith, Robinson Jeffers, Charles Bukowski, Gary Snyder, Francisco Alarcon, Robert Hass, and others.

Richard Price: Hippie Drawings. Germany: Hatje Cantz Velag, 2005, n. p.
ISBN 10: 3775717351
ISBN 13: 9783775717355
9.06 x 12.01 inches
A catalog of Price's drawings, published in conjunction with an exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ, London.
First edition 3,000 copies

Reprints all nine parts of Brautigan's poem "The Galilee Hitch-Hiker".
"The Galilee Hitch-Hiker"
"The American Hotel"
"1939"
"The Flowerburgers"
"The Hour of Eternity"
"Salvadore Dali"
"A Baseball Game"
"Insane Asylum"
"My Insect Funeral"

Volta, no. 2, 2009
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.

Includes a broadside that reprints Brautigan's poem "A Widow's Lament". Also includes a small folding leaflet printing an untitled poem by Charles Bukowski and a colophon sheet printing Wallace Berman's "Art is Love of God" quote.

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.

Beatitude Golden Anniversary 1959-2009. Beatitude/Latif Harris, 2009
Subtitled "Beatitude Literary Magazine Volume 50".
Edited by Leif Harris and Neeli Cherkovski.
Cover with art work by Robert LaVigne.
Covers 50 years of Beat Literature, photos, art.
471 pages plus 111 pages of reprinted 1960 Edition.
ISBN 10: 0615293948
ISBN 13: 9780615293943

Since this publication reproduces all 111 pages of Beatitude Anthology, it also reprints the following five Brautigan poems: "The American Submarine," "A Postcard from the Bridge," "That Girl," and "The Whorehouse at the Top of Mount Rainier," and "Swandragons."

Visions & Affiliations: A California Literary Time Line: Poets & Poetry: 1940-2005, Part 1: 1940-1980, Pantograph Press, pp. 134-135,157,289,300,362-363,371,374,494, 2011
Jack Foley.
Softcover: 576 pages: 8.5" x 11"
Cover art by Mark Roland.
ISBN 10: 1613640676
ISBN 13: 9781613640678

This chronoencyclopdia of the California poetry scene has several entries about Brautigan, including reprints of Brautigan's poems "Return of the Rivers," "Jules Verne Zuccini," "Donner Party," "As the Bruises Fade, the Lightning Aches," and a portion of Brautigan's essay Old Lady.

Hjortsberg, William. Jubiliee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan. Counterpoint, 2012

Hardcover, 896 pages
7.25" x 10.25"
ISBN 10: 1582437904
ISBN 13: 9781582437903
This biography includes the first publication of the Brautigan poems: "kitten", "a cookie", "Richard, I'll tell you what", "Chasing Soup", "Waiting Potatoes", "When the Star Stops Counting the Sky", "The Accidental, Unintentional Color of Your Death", "Spare Me", and "Hopeless Candles".

Also reprints "My Nose is Growing Old", "1942", "Age: 41", "Rendezvous", and "Death Growth".

Poetry, vol. ccii, no. 5, Sep. 2013, p. 453
Published by The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
Paperback: 516 pages

Reprints Brautigan's poem "The Boat" as a part of Lemony Snicket's article "Poetry Not Written for Children that Children Might Nevertheless Enjoy." This was Brautigan's first appearance in this journal since a memorial tribute in December of 1984.

Snicket also selected poems by himself, Maram Al-Massra, Carl Sandburg, Ava Leavell Haymon, Katernia Rudcenkove, Ron Padgett, Liz Waldner, Stuart Mills, Carrie Fountain, Henry Parland and Sherman Alexie.
Other poems in this volume are by: W.S. di Piero, Nate Klug, Atsuro Riley, George Kalogeris, Kathering Coles, Maureen N. McClane, Meghan O.Rourke, and Eliza Griswold.

Edited by Don Share.
Cover illustration by Chris Raschka.

New Micro / Exceptionally Short Fiction, Edited by James Thomas and Robert Scotellaro, 2018, pp. 242-243
Published by W.W. Norton & Company, New York, NY, 4 September 2018
Paperback: 288 pages
5.5" x 8.3"
ISBN 10: 0393354709
ISBN 13: 9780393354706

Reprints Brautigan's story "Women When They Put Their Clothes In in the Morning".

139 stories are included, by 89 authors, among whom are Amy Hemple, John Edgar Wideman, Kim Addonizio, Bonnie Jo Campbll, Stuart Dybek, Joyce Carol Oats, and James Tate.
With a Foreword by Robert Shapard and an Afterword by Christopher Merrill.

September California, East Wind Printers, 1964.
Broadside. 12.75" x 20" on heavy cream-colored paper
Limited Edition of 300 copies

Reprints Brautigan's story "September California."

Originally one of the ten broadsides comprising San Francisco Art Festival: A Poetry Folio 1964, which was published in San Francisco, California, for the San Francisco Arts Festival Commission. The Brautigan item is often found separately. It's commonly thought that all such copies were extracted from the larger set.

Illustrated by Richard Correll, who signed all known copies. Brautigan also signed many (but not all) copies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Spinning Like a Ghost, The Diggers, October 1967.
Broadside. 8.5" x 14" white construction-like papers colors. Artwork by Stanley Muse.

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

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.

This broadside was simutaneously issued as a part of: Free City News, no. 1, October 1967, an anthology of ten poems, each published as a broadside by the Diggers.

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.

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.

The San Francisco Weather Report, Unicorn Books of Goleta, California, [December 1967; see Darllington article below] or, January 1968?
Broadside. Printed on tan newsprint paper. Printed by Graham Mackintosh for free distribution. A second printing was offered in 1969.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Gee, You're So Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain"

2,500 copies were distributed free in San Francisco's financial district on 26 January 1968 (Notes From A Revolution: Com/co, the Diggers & the Haight.. Foggy Notion Books, 2012, p. 170.) or during December 1967 (Darlington article, below).

One Day Marriage Certificate San Francisco, California: Rapid Reproductions Company, 1968
Quantity printed unknown
Illustrated broadside. 8.75" x 12"; printed green ink on cream colored paper

First publication of Brautigan's poem "One Day Marriage Certificate." Illustrations by The San Andreas Fault art collective
Border illustration depicts Maxfield Parrish-inspired women, one holding a banner reading "Feb. 29," another a Sadie Hawkins' Day banner, a reference to Al Capp's "Li'l Abner" comic strip holiday where on the extra day of each leap year women could pursue and propose marriage to women.
At the bottom of the broadside, almost hidden in the illustration, appears the text "Words—Richard Brautigan. Pictures —The San Andreas Fault. Printing—Rapid Reproductions Co."

'Star-Spangled' Nails, privately published: Berkeley, California, 1970?
12" x 18" broadside.
Printed in black lower case lettering on turquoise-colored construction paper with three red, five pointed stars above the poem. Brautigan's name appeared below, in lower case letters.

Reprints Brautigan's poem "'Star-Spangled' Nails."

It is unclear whether Brautigan was involved in the production of this broadside. Five copies are known to exist. Three are held in university collections: one at the State University of New York in Buffalo, one at Ball State University, and one at Northwestern University. The other two are held in private collections.

Five Poems. Serendipity Books, 1971
Broadside (printed in black with red border on 17" x 11" beige paper) for the International Antiquarian Book Fair, held in New York City, Spring 1971.

First publication of five poems by Brautigan: "A Legend of Horses" and "Toward the Pleasures of a Reconstituted Crow," "A Moth in Tucson, Arizona," "Death Like a Needle," and "Heroine of the Time Machine." All save "A Legend of Horses" collected in Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork. Serendipity Books was based in San Francisco, California.

Seven Watermelon Suns: Selected Poems of Richard Brautigan. University of California at Santa Cruz, 1974.
Limited Edition of 10 copies
Printed by The Crowell Press
8 pages
Reprints a section from a Brautigan novel and six Brautigan poems, each printed as a separate 6" x 8.5" broadside with embossed color etchings by Ellen Meske. Contents include:
Title page
The Watermelon Sun chapter from Brautigan's novel In Watermelon Sugar. (pp. 38-39)
"The Fever Monument"
"Cyclops"
"The Nature Poem"
"The Symbol"
"The Harbor"
"The Galilee Hitch-Hiker"

The Thunder City Press Broadside Series, No. 5 Richard Brautigan 8 Poems, Thunder City Press, February 1976.
11" x 17" broadside.

Reprints eight Brautigan poems: "December 24," "Milk for the Duck," "Star Hole," "Love Poem," "A Mid-February Sky Dance," "Hollywood," "All Watched Over by Machine of Loving Grace," and "Nine Things." All from " All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace." Publisher's note provided context:
"THE THUNDER CITY PRESS BROADSIDE SERIES is published six times a year by Steven Ford Brown. Subscriptions are $1.00 per year. For information write 2008 Magnolia Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35205. Published in a special editon of 500 February 1976. Permission is granted to reprint any of these poems in magazines, books, and newspapers if they are given away free.

As he has for a number of years, Richard Brautigan goes on living and writing in San Francisco. He is now forty-one years old and the author of such books as TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA, THE ABORTION, THE HAWKLINE MONSTER and his most recent WILLARD AND HIS BOWLING TROPHIES. This edition of the Broadside Series presents selections from ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE which is currently out of print. I obtained a copy of the book thru [sic] Jan Susina, a graduate student at the University of Indiana, where they have a Rare Books Department."

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."

Knock on Wood [Part Two]
Lexington, New York: Art Awareness Gallery, 1979.
Oblong folio broadside
Limited Edition of 50 numbered copies signed by Brautigan, Judd Weisberg, and Leonard Seastone, the printer
Printed at Tideline Press, illustrated with a color serigraph by Judd Weisberg

Reprints the chapter "Knock on Wood (Part 2)", from Brautigan's novel Trout Fishing in America.

Would You Like to Saddle Up a Couple of Goldfish and Swim to Alaska?, Berkeley: Bancroft Library Press, 1995

The manuscript for this Brautigan novel was written in 1956, while he lived with Harold and Lois Barton at their ranch on Fox Hollow Road/Harry Taylor Road, outside of Eugene, Oregon, following his release from the Oregon State Hospital, 19 February 1956.

Dedication
for Edna

Edna Webster was Brautigan's surrogate mother. Her daughter, Linda Webster, was Brautigan's first girlfriend. Her son, Peter Webster, was Brautigan's best friend. Brautigan gave many of his high school writing manuscripts to Edna on 3 November 1955.

The novel is a love fantasy inspired by Brautigan's gift of two goldfish to Linda, called "Grace" in the manuscript. Grace is seventeen. Brautigan, the narrator, called simply "I," is nineteen, Brautigan's two-year fantasy age difference, rather than the six-year difference (Linda was fourteen; Brautigan twenty) that troubled him so. The novel is also prescient of the themes Brautigan explored in his later work: loneliness, isolation, alienation, and death.

In his introduction to The Bancroft Library version, Burton Weiss details how he acquired previously unknown and unpublished Brautigan materials, including this manuscript, from Edna Webster in October 1992. Burton says the original manuscript for this book was a 6" x 8" spiral-bound, lined notebook in which Brautigan wrote the entire final text by hand, including title, dedication, and chapter headings. The manuscript was a fair copy of how Brautigan visualized the published layout for this short novel. It consisted of 78 pages, 16 left blank.

A Visit From Jake, 1996, Pasadena, CA. X-Ray Book Company, publisher of X-Ray magazine, an innnovative magazine of art and literature edited and assembled by Johnny Brewton.
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4.25" x 5.5"

A chapbook printed in a limited edition of 300 numbered and lettered copies, 200 of which were laid into X-Ray no. 6. The chapbook presents a short novel from the upcoming Brautigan collection I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye.

Sometime later an additional 100 copies were found and inserted into the X-Ray Spare Parts Grab Bag No. 1.

I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye, Fairfax, CA: Burton Weiss and James P. Musser, 1996

Includes the Brautigan novels "I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye," "The Conscripted Storyteller," and "a visit from jake," and three Brautigan poems, "Nature Lover, or Something," "a woman's eyes," and "Phantom Kiss."

Leather-Bound Version
Six copies bound in full blue leather by John DeMerritt and numbered I-VI. Each copy contained a 13" x 4" bumper sticker on which the poem Phantom Kiss was printed.

Lettered Version
Twenty-six copies, lettered A-Z were hard cover, quarter-bound in cloth and paper, issued without a dust jacket. Each copy contained a bumper sticker on which the poem Phantom Kiss was printed.

Numbered Version
Sixty-eight copies were hard cover; quarter-bound in cloth and paper; issued with a dustjacket; numbered 1-68.

Phantom Kiss, Burton Weiss and James P. Musser, 1996

A 13" x 4" bumper sticker on which the poem Phantom Kiss is printed.

Originally issued as a supplement to the 6 Leather-Bound and the 26 Lettered limited editions of I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye. These bumper stickers are hand numbered (e.g., 31/32) on the verso.

A small quantity (perhaps as few as two) of unnumbered copies exist as result of a publisher's overrun.

Fishing: the Sea, the Stream, and the Soul. CA: The Family Literary Group (California), 1996
Single cream-colored sheet (8 1/2" x 14") folded once to make 2 leaves.
Set in Janson type by Bruce Washbish.
Cover illustration (pen and ink drawing) by Curt Fields.
Limited to an estimated 100-200 copies.
Reprints two chapters from Brautigan's novel Trout Fishing in America: "Knock on Wood (Part One)" and "Knock on Wood (Part Two)". This keepsake was prepared for a reading at The Family Farm in The Grove of the Turning Leaves as part of "the annual Flight of the Stork celebration" on August 23, 1996.

Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings, 1999
Boston/New York: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Paperback, with printed wrappers. No hardback issue, other than Limited Edition
Front cover photograph by Erik Weber of Brautigan
Introduction by Keith Abbott
A note by Burton Weiss details how he acquired these previously unknown and unpublished Brautigan materials from Edna Webster in October 1992.

Proof Copy
Advance Reader Copy (ARC) / Uncorrected Page Proof
Boston: Mariner Original, 1999
Notes publication date as September 16, 1999, size as 5.5" x 8.25", and national advertising in Village Voice, Boston Phoenix, Seattle Weekly, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Willamette Week, Washington City Paper, and LA Weekly.

Limited Edition
Berkeley and Forest Knolls, CA: Burton Weiss and James P. Musser, 1999.
75 press-numbered copies
Hard cover binding of the regular trade edition with an added colophon page, issued without a dustjacket.
Introduction by Keith Abbott who signed 65 copies on the colophon page and stamped each in red ink with a Chinese seal he designed.

Regular Issue Limited Edition
Quarter-bound by John DeMerritt in cloth and marbled paper boards

Deluxe Issue Limited Edition
10 copies numbered I-X
Bound by John DeMerritt in full burgundy Nigerian goatskin
Title stamped in copper and ivory
Separate broadside included featuring two poems from the book
Broadside printed by David Deiss in an edition of only 10 copies

A collection of the first publication of Brautigan poems, Brautigan novels, and more. For detailed information on this book, see the Collections page of this Web Site.

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!"

This small broadside was simultaneously found inserted into Volta, no. 1, March 2000.

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.

Desire in a Bowl of Potatoes, X-Ray Book and Novelty Co., 2001
5"x3.75" letter press broadside.

First publication of the Brautigan poem "Desire in a Bowl of Potatoes," issued simultaneously with X-Ray no. 8, (issued in a limited edition) and which included a copy of this broadside.

It is not clear how many separate copies of this card were produced.

Please, Ventura, CA, X-Ray Book and Novelty Co., 2003
4" x 4" letter press broadside.

First publication of Brautigan's poem "Please," issued simultaneously with X-Ray no. 9, (issued in a limited edition) and which included a copy of this broadside.

It is not clear how many separate copies of this card were produced.

Desire in a Bowl of Potatoes, Pasadena, CA. X-Ray Book Company, 2005
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Fourteen poems by Brautigan written 1955-1956 and submitted to The MacMillan Company. Brautigan's three-page manuscript was rejected, and returned to Edna Webster in May 1956. Apparently, Brautigan gave her address as his return address. Brautigan gave his juvenilia writings, photographs, and personal items to Webster on 3 November 1955. Many of these writings were initially published in The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings. LEARN more. This group of poems, however, was published separately, in these limited hardbound and wrapper editions.

Hardbound version
Limited Edition of 26 lettered hardbound copies
First printing summer 2005
2.5" x 4.25"
Letterpress chapbook
Hard Cover; Boards covered with gold cloth; Issued without a dustjacket
Designed and printed by Johnny Brewton. LEARN more.

Wrapper version
Limited Edition of 250 numbered copies
14 pages; 2.5" x 4.25"
Letterpress chapbook
Printed wrappers; Handsewn binding
Designed and printed by Johnny Brewton

Proof Copy
Printer's proof copy printed on chipboard
14 pages; 2.5" x 4.25"
Letterpress chapbook
Printed on chioboard; Handsewn binding
Designed and printed by Johnny Brewton

Contents
The contents of this speciality publication in order of their appearance:
"Love Is Where You Find It"
"When I Was A Piece of Death"
"Please"
"Stars"
"Once Upon A Time"
"Love Is Not A House"
"A Lion"
"Linda"
"I Knew a Gal Who Was Cold as Death"
"Come Dreamers and Lovers"
"Desire in a Bowl of Potatoes"
"Hey"
"The Spider"
"Somewhere in the World"
and a one page dedication with a dedication to "Linda" [Webster].

Of the fourteen poems included in this publication, only "stars" and "hey" were titled in the original manuscript. The titles for the remaining poems suggested here are comprised of their first line or phrase.

This is the first publication of all of these poems except "Desire in a Bowl of Potatoes" (previously in X-Ray no. 8) and "Please" (previously in X-Ray no. 9).

Background
Desire in a Bowl of Potatoes was transcribed from a three-page manuscript (two pages of fourteen poems; one page with a dedication "for Linda") typed by Brautigan. Described as "an unpublished manuscript by Richard Brautigan," originally titled Linda, the manuscript was sent to The Macmillan Company who rejected it for publication in 1956, sending Brautigan the following letter.

May 10, 1956

Dear Mr. Brautigan:
We appreciate your kindness in submitting for our consideration your manuscript, Linda.

We have examined it carefully, but have decided that there is no place where it will fit in with our publishing plans. We are sorry, therefore, to have to return it to you without an offer. Many reasons enter into every publishing decision, and a rejection is not necessarily an indication of lack of merit.

We do wish you to feel, however, that we are pleased to have been allowed to see your manuscript, which we are returning to you under separate cover.

Sincerely yours,
R. L. De Wilton
Assistant Editor in Chief
The Macmillan Company

Richard Brautigan & Harry Hoogstraten—Seven Drawings. Counter Culture Chronicles #13. Amsterdam, 2018.
Limited and numbered edition of 35 copies
345 x 245 x 2 mm
Folder with 7 A4 prints, 2 color photos, one black and white xeroxed text by René van der Voort
Signed by Harry Hoogstraten

Richard Brautigan created Seven Drawings with Dutch poet and painter Harry Hoogstraten during a visit to Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in January-February 1984. Brautigan visited Amsterdam 17-23 October 1983, when he attended and gave a reading a the One World Poetry Festival. Hoogstraten was a organizer of the event.

The drawings are numbered and titled, in Brautigan's writing, as
1. "A UCLA Film School of Fish
2. "Fish Going Down an Elevator"
3. "Fish Dreaming of a Bicycle Dreaming of a Fish"
4. "It's Only Caves"
5. "Just So flying mountains"
6. "This space was formerly empty"
7. "not forgotten" (which previously appeared in the 1984 publication C/O)

Further information on this publication can be found on the Change and Seven Drawings page of this website.