"At a campus library book sale this week I bought for $1.00 a copy of Volume 1, Number 3, of the Evergreen Review. The price new was $1.00 in 1957. It’s a 5 and ¼ by 8 inch paperback, 160 pages. It’s in good condition. There are four black and white photographs, in the middle of the issue, of Jackson Pollock and his studio. Pollock had died in a car wreck the previous year, 1956, on August 11. The opening essay is by Albert Camus, 'Reflections on the Guillotine,' an argument against capital punishment (ironic, considering recent events in our own time). ... The issue contains poems by William Carlos Williams and Gregory Corso, including Corso’s delightful 'This Was My Meal,' and also a prose piece by Beckett, whom Evergreen Review and Grove Press editor Barney Rosset introduced to the US. ..."
The Coming of the Toads
[PDF] Evergreen Review - Issue 3 (1957)
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