Tau & Journey to the End

National and international galley mailing to poetry and Beat Generation-interest publications including New York Times, Bookforum, St Mark's Poetry Project Newsletter, American Poetry Review, Boston Review. Special focus on the Bay Area--San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Bay Guardian. Online marketing: Outreach to poetry, Beat generation, and Surrealist interest web sites and academic list-serves. Excerpts forthcoming in Verse Magazine and Urvox.

Two lost Beat generation books: mystical poems by Philip Lamantia and the legendary poems of John Hoffman.Two long-lost volumes from the classic Beat period. Tau is Philip Lamantia's mystical second collection of poems, originally slated for publication in 1955, but suppressed by the poet due to his evolving religious beliefs. Journey to the End contains the poems of the legendary John Hoffman (1928-1952), whose poems were read by Lamantia in 1955 at the 6 Gallery reading where Allen Ginsberg debuted "Howl." Lamantia's closest friend, a character in Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums, and the inspiration for two lines of "Howl," Hoffman moved between San Francisco and New York before his death in Mexico at the age of twenty-four. This volume includes biographical notes and Lamantia's commentaries on Hoff man's poetry.