Date (if any)

1960, Adler Press

The original was printed and bound. When Shig revived the review in 1983 he produced a second photocopy version.

1960, Adler Press

Again there are two versions: the original printed one and the 1983 xeroxed zine version.

1969, City Lights

There are printed and zine versions. There are no poems in #3; instead we find a photo of Shig cropped in various ways.

2/26/84

February, 1984

10/84

1983

1984

1985

7th Dec 85

1985

3 Oct. 1983

November, 1984

Autumn, 1985

Contents

Poetry:

Leonard Dritz

Marvin Friedman

Nicole Friedman

Phil Leider

Bill Margolis

Sadie Monsanto

Richard Sherman

Richard McBride

Sean McBride

Virginia Christianson

Vincent McHugh

Editor:

Shigeyoshi Murao

Poetry:

C.H. Kwock & Vincent McHugh

Sadie Monsanto

Louis Embree

Morton Grinker

Three Young Poets:

Melville Abbett

Daniel Moore

Ralph Costa

Drawings:

John Saccaro

Editor:

Shigeyoshi Murao

Poetry:

Shigeyoshi Murao & Shige

Yoshi Murao

Shige

Yoshi Murao Shigi

Yoshi Murao

Three Young Poets:

Murao Shigeyoshi

Murao Shige

Yoshi

Photos:

Shigeyoshi Murao

8 1/2 x 11, 9 pages.

“How I, Shig Murao, Rejected My Avant-Garde Childhood.”

“26 Views of Coit Tower”

“Atlantis”

“The Search”

“Light a String of Firecrackers”

81/2 x 11, 11 pages.

Photos of Kaye McDonough, Shig & Allen, North Beach street scene; letter to Green from Jack Gilbert; letter from Green to Shig re “proof for Shig’s Review #5.”

8 1/2 x 11, 6 pages.

Three photos of Snig, areal view of North Beach, Ginsberg,  and what looks to be a photo of a forest floor with leaves and rocks.

8 1/2 x 11, 15 pages.

Cover photo of three Japanese boys with shakuhachis; the words “my father” are typed next to the photo, with an arrow pointing to one of the boys.

The letter Ginsberg, Masayuki Koga, and Peter Orlovsky wrote to Shig from Boulder after a June 18, 1978, performance Koga gave there.

Copies of brochures on Masayuki Koga and the Japanese Music Institute of America.

8 1/2x 11, 5 pages.

Several photos of unidentified people.

8 1/2 x 11, 10 pages.

8 1/2 x 14, 4 pages.

Four photo collages made from photos of Shig

8 1/2 x 14, 7 pages.

Photos of Ginsberg; four poetry reading flyers announcing Ginsberg readings.

8 1/2 x 14, 3 pages.

Cover photo of Shig by Ginsberg; three snapshots of Ginsberg; Feb. 4, 1985, Time magazine article on Ginsberg; comp ticket to reading by Ginsberg and Diane di Prima.

8 1/2 x 14 sheet with accordion fold

8 1/2 x 11, 6 pages.

“Performance poem” to be read by ten performers.

8 1/2 x 11, 6 pages.

Photos of Ginsberg, Shig, Gregory Corso, Mark Green (by Ginsberg), and others.

8 1/2 x 11, 7 pages.

Signed Ginsberg photos of Jack Micheline; Dick McBride, Shig, and Micheline; Shig and McBride; Shig and Micheline; John Murao; and “Shig Murao at home in his Hamburg Hat, Mid March 1985.”

8 1/2 x 11, 11 pages.

Handwritten text thanking Shig, Green’s sister Sally, and others for understanding him; several photos with hand written notes.

8 1/2 x 11, 7 pages.

Two to four photos per page.

8 1/2 x 11, 5 pages.

Photos of Duncan, Ginsberg, and Shig.

8 1/2 x ll, 7 pages.

Photos of Toki’s Fountain and the couple who owned it; John Murao text describing the store and its setting.

Issues 21 - 40

Issues 41 - 60

Issues 61 - 86

Unnumbered Issues

Shig’s Review Sampler