Introduction: the writing life, by W. Tallman -- Ordinary men and women, by W. S. Burroughs -- Mr. Blue. The party. The suitor. The dress. By R. Creeley -- C. B. & Q. The deer. By E. Dorn -- Portrait of an artist with 26 horses. Something big is happening to me. By W. Eastlake -- The heretics, by L. Jones -- The railroad earth, part 1, by J. Kerouac -- Masquerade, by J. Rechy -- The pipe, by M. Rumaker -- Loves labors lost. And baby makes three. By H. Selby, Jr. -- The flyman. The cat. By D. Woolf -- Biographical notes and authors' statements.