Kevin Ring, the indefatigable editor of Beat Scene magazine, emailed me a few months ago to ask about the new reprint of Cut Up or Shut Up released by the German publisher Mokolo Print in a facsimile edition in English with a new cover design by Robert Schalinski and a modest intro by yours truly. Ever curious about all things Beat, Ring wanted to know the back story of the book’s origin and development. Et voilà!
Front cover and inside front cover.
Honored to be friends with a historic ageless literary figure!
Perhaps I am just an aging hippie romanticizing the past, but it feels like we were gifted with a time of extraordinary literary, social, and spiritual exploration?
ah… thnx for that. yes, we were lucky to live through a period, as you say, “of extraordinary literary, social, and spiritual exploration.”
now, as my staff of thousands sez, what we’re living through is more like an era of exhaustion, misinformation, and misplaced rage … the dark ages with semiconductors instead of churches.
& locusts on cue! Nice article cousin, certainly a keystone work. And you did the MICE book! And collages that were brilliant!
ah, the locusts! my staff forgot about that. and just in time for passover…
This is brilliant. As the folkies sang, what a time it was!
Terrific news, as ever …. and apparently great stuff: cannot wait to get my hands on this!!