Dick McBride
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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

Plays:

Produced Plays

  • From Out The Whale's Mouth (n.d) - Staged by Theater San Francisco at the Crossroads Theater in 1952 and by the Bread and Wine Mission in 1961. Won second honors in the 1954 Dramatists' Alliance competition for the Maxwell Anderson Award for a verse play.
  • Devils In A Quandary (n.d) - Staged by Theater San Francisco at the Crossroads Theater in 1952.
  • Four and an Old Woman (n.d) - Staged by Theater San Francisco at the Crossroads Theater in 1952.
  • A Miracle for Christ (n.d) - Staged by Theater San Francisco at the Crossroads Theater in 1953.
  • There And Where (n.d) - Play reading and discussion at Hastings College, Nebraska in 1958. Staged by the TEL-HI Drama Group at the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center, San Francisco in 1960 and double-billed with Sweeney in the Trees by William Saroyan.

Unproduced Plays

  • An Unnecessary Miracle (n.d)
  • Elephants (n.d) - Based on the story of Francis Grutzius.
  • The First Clerk's Play (n.d)
  • Cup of Coffee, A Play in Three Acts (8 October 1956)

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

The Spectator

Critical Survey

The Rue Bella

  • Stardust (The Rue Bella Volume Four: Larking Gratey, The Rue Bella, 2000) eds. Geoff Bird, Nigel Bird
  • Kiss (The Rue Bella Volume Four: Larking Gratey, The Rue Bella, 2000) eds. Geoff Bird, Nigel Bird
  • Moth (The Rue Bella Volume Four: Larking Gratey, The Rue Bella, 2000) eds. Geoff Bird, Nigel Bird
  • When Summer (The Rue Bella Volume Four: Larking Gratey, The Rue Bella, 2000) eds. Geoff Bird, Nigel Bird

Short stories:

  • Dreams from the Readers (Olympia Number One, Olympia Press, 1962)
  • Hammer (Logos Review Vol. 3, Bread & Wine Press, n.d.) eds. Milton Savage, H.Z. Bennett, Jack M. Matlaga
  • Haircut Dream (City Lights Journal: Number One, City Lights Books, 1963)
  • The Twenty Five Pound Lard Can Murder Case (The Smith Special Issue 27, The Smith, January 1973) ed. Harry Smith
  • 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) eds. Geoff Bird, Nigel Bird
  • priapus (rrat: Irrationalist Writing Volume 4, 3rd Millennium Literature, December 2000) ed. Tim Gaze
  • Depression Waitress Blues (The Rue Bella Volume Six: As High as the Bullet Holes, The Rue Bella, 2001) eds. Geoff Bird, Nigel Bird

Flash fiction:

  • Fleur-de-lis (em one, em writing & music, 1997) ed. Karl Sinfield
  • The Soft Watch (em one, em writing & music, 1997) ed. Karl Sinfield
  • What’s So Good About Friday? (em one, em writing & music, 1997) ed. Karl Sinfield
  • Mysterium (em one, em writing & music, 1997) ed. Karl Sinfield
  • Step Right Up, Folks! (em one, em writing & music, 1997) ed. Karl Sinfield
  • Stand Up Comedian (em one, em writing & music, 1997) ed. Karl Sinfield
  • Picasso Couldn’t Say it all in Guernica (em one, em writing & music, 1997) ed. Karl Sinfield
  • The Greatest Story Never Told (em one, em writing & music, 1997) ed. Karl Sinfield
  • Enough To Try the Patience of a Saint (em one, em writing & music, 1997) ed. Karl Sinfield
  • The House that Jack Built (em one, em writing & music, 1997) ed. Karl Sinfield
  • Satie-Faction (em one, em writing & music, 1997) ed. Karl Sinfield
  • Lady Day Dies (em one, em writing & music, 1997) ed. Karl Sinfield
  • priapus (reprise) (rrat: Irrationalist Writing Volume 4, 3rd Millennium Literature, December 2000) ed. Tim Gaze

Anthologies:

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

Articles & Essays:

  • The Village Green (Hastings Daily Tribune, 1973—)
  • Whizzkiddery (The Three Rope Trick, Panurge New Fiction 22, Panurge Publishing, 1995) ed. John Murray
  • Hurry, Armageddon (Main Street Journal: Poetry, Fiction, Music, Essays. Issue Three, The Main Objective, 1997) ed. David Rose
  • Allen Ginsberg & The Blue Rinse Brigade (Urthona - Issue 15, 2001) ed. Ratnagarbha (Ambrose Gilson)
  • The Beat Goes On (The Idler - Issue 29, 2001)

Poems and Stories published in:

Unpublished Works:

  • The Manufactured Man (n.d.) A novel.
  • Composed While Walking the Dog (n.d) A collection of fifty-word stories.
  • 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)
  • Please Don't Forget (A memoir) (n.d)

Sourced from author biographies and correspondence.

Interviews:

  • A site for small presses - Jay Landesman (The Bookseller, 1978)
  • The Beat Goes On For a Sixties' Poet and Author - Duncan Seaman (Malvern Gazette, 29 December, 1995)

Published Letters:

NB: Correspondence addressed to Dick McBride between 1960-1985 is collected at The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

The correspondence relates in large part to his work as distributor for the publications of City Lights and other small magazines and little presses, and also to his own writing.

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