Introduction / by LeRoi Jones
The first bomb ; Little Joe / William Eastlake.
C.B. & Q. ; 1st Avenue ; Beauty / Edward Dorn
Cougher ; Work in flight grounded / Douglas Woolf
The doll ; Indian game / Paul Metcalf
El Paso del Norte ; City of lost angels ; Chicago, savage city / John Rechy
8 dreams ; Teddy bear ; Puppy / Michael Rumaker
Mr. Blue ; The grace ; In the summer ; A death ; The dress ; The book / Robert Creeley
Early in the morning ; Invisible glass ; Captain America ; Bloodstar / Fielding Dawson
Another day, another dollar ; A penny for your thoughts / Hubert Selby, Jr.
Seattle burlesque ; CITYCitycity ; Manhattan sketches / Jack Kerouac
Vaudeville voices ; Berserk machine ; The ticket that exploded / William Burroughs
The screamers ; Hypocrite(s) ; Thieves / LeRoi Jones
Poet ; Some fool thing ; Visitors ; Southwest / Diane Di Prima
Gulping's recital / Russell Edson
Appedix: Uses of the unconscious / Michael Rumaker ; Preface to Gold diggers / Robert Creeley ; Essentials of spontaneous prose / Jack Kerouac ; Notes on Vaudeville voices, and The cup up method / William Burroughs
