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Bibliography

In general I am gladdened by writing that can be wild like Ginsberg and is never far from ecstasy.

Philip Callow

Novels:

  • Lonely The Autumn Bird; Two Novels (A Swallow Paperbook, 1963)
  • Memoirs Of A Natural-Born Expatriate (Alan Swallow, 1966)
  • The Astonished I (Memories & Wet Dreams) (McBride's Books, 1995)

Biography:

  • Cometh with Clouds (Memory: Allen Ginsberg) (Cherry Valley Editions, 1982)
  • Behan & The Beats (Appliance Books, 2005)
  • Cometh with Clouds (Memory: Allen Ginsberg) (Aspect Design, 2nd edition, 2011)

Collected Poetry:

  • Oranges: Illustrated by Victor Wong (Bread & Wine Press, 1960)
  • Ballads of Blood (Golden Mountain Press, 1961)
  • Jacqui (Love Poems) (Raglan House, 1994)
  • Jacqui (Love Poems) (McBride's Books, 1997)
  • Remembered America: Poems by Dick McBride (Rue Bella, 2004)
  • Remembered America: Poems by Dick McBride (Sea Minor, 2020)

Uncollected Poetry:

Beatitude

Shig’s Review

Root and Branch: A Radical Quarterly

em

  • Fleur-de-lis (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
  • The Soft Watch (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
  • What’s So Good About Friday? (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
  • Mysterium (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
  • Step Right Up, Folks! (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
  • Stand Up Comedian (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
  • Picasso Couldn’t Say it all in Guernica (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
  • The Greatest Story Never Told (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
  • Enough To Try the Patience of a Saint (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
  • The House that Jack Built (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
  • Satie-Faction (em one, em writing & music, 1997)
  • Lady Day Dies (em one, em writing & music, 1997)

The Rue Bella

  • Stardust (The Rue Bella Volume Four: Larking Gratey, The Rue Bella, 2000)
  • Kiss (The Rue Bella Volume Four: Larking Gratey, The Rue Bella, 2000)
  • Moth (The Rue Bella Volume Four: Larking Gratey, The Rue Bella, 2000)
  • When Summer (The Rue Bella Volume Four: Larking Gratey, The Rue Bella, 2000)

rrat: Irrationalist Writing

  • Unknown (rrat: Irrationalist Writing Volume 4, 3rd Millennium Literature, December 2000)

Short stories:

  • Dreams from the Readers (Olympia Number One, Olympia Press, 1962)
  • Haircut Dream (City Lights Journal: Number One, City Lights Books, 1963)
  • Tall Tales & Outright Lies / Satie-Faction (Martin Wheeler, 1993)
  • Cwazy Man (Debatable Lands, Panurge New Fiction 21, Panurge Publishing, 1994) ed. John Murray
  • Garden (Annihilator Press, 1999)
  • Garden (Annihilator Press, 2nd edition, 2000)
  • from Apocrypha (The Rue Bella Volume Four: Larking gratey, The Rue Bella, 2000)
  • Depression Waitress Blues (The Rue Bella Volume Six: As High as the Bullet Holes, The Rue Bella, 2001)

Plays:

  • From Out The Whale's Mouth (n.d) - Staged at the Theatre San Francisco in 1952 and produced by the Bread and Wine Mission in 1961.
  • An Unnecessary Miracle (n.d)
  • There And Where (n.d) - Staged at the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center, San Francisco in 1960 and double-billed with William Saroyan's Sweeney in the Trees.
  • Elephants (n.d) - Based on the story of Francis Grutzius.
  • Devils In A Quandary (n.d)

Anthologies:

Dick's poetry and prose has been published in the following anthologies:

  • Beatitude Anthology (City Lights Books, 1960) ed. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • The Real Bohemia (Basic Books, 1961)
  • Beat Voices: An Anthology of Beat Poetry (Henry Holt, 1995) ed. David Kherdian
  • The Beat Journals Volume One (Beat Scene Press, 1995)
  • Beatitude Golden Anniversary 1959-2009 (Beatitude/Latif Harris, 2009)

Articles:

  • Whizzkiddery (The Three Rope Trick, Panurge New Fiction 22, Panurge Publishing, 1995) ed. John Murray
  • Allen Ginsberg & The Blue Rinse Brigade (Urthona - Issue 15, 2001)
  • The Beat Goes On (The Idler - Issue 29, 2001)

Stories, Poems and Articles published in:

Unpublished:

  • Composed While Walking the Dog (n.d) A collection of poetry that was written during his time in Australia.
  • Flop (n.d) A story about the McBride family during the Great Depression that morphs into a story about John Dillinger.
  • Apocrypha (n.d)
  • Macho Ovum (n.d.)
  • Don't Forget (A memoir) (n.d)

Interviews:

  • A site for small presses - Jay Landesman (The Bookseller, 1978)

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