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Y.; Barney Rosset, president; Ephraim London, secretary; Fred Hartl, treasurer. Subscriptions: $3.50 a year, $6.00 for two years, foreign subscriptions, including Canada, $4.00 a year, $7.50 for two years. All payments from foreign countries must be made by U.S. money orders or checks payable in U.S. currency or with $0.75 added for collection charges. Single copy: $1.00. Manuscripts will not be returned unless ac- companied by stamped, self-addressed envelopes. Copyright 1957, by GROVE PRESS, INC. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of MARCH 3, 1879. Distributors in Great Britain: John Calder Ltd., 17 Sackville St., London, W. 1 VOLUME 1 NUMBER 3 contents 5 Albert Camus: Reflections on the Guillotine 56 William Carlos Williams: Three Poems 59 Frank O'Hara: Three Poems 62 Patsy Southgate: A Very Important Lady 77 Gregory Corso: Three Poems 80 James Grady: Four Poems 83 Samuel Beckett: From an Abandoned Work 92 E. G. Burrows: Two Poems 95 Clement Greenberg: Jackson Pollock 96 Hans Namuth: Four Photographs of Jackson Pollock 97 Alain Robbe-Grillet: A Fresh Start for Fiction 105 Three Reflected Visions 114 Barbara Guest: Three Poems 117 Eugene Ionesco: The Photograph of the Colonel 132 Gary Snyder: Letter from Kyoto 135 Georges Arnaud: Sweet Confessions Cover photograph of Jackson Pollock by Hans Namuth Contributors: GEORGES ARNAUD is best known for his novel The Wages of Fear. Les Aveux les plus doux (Sweet Confessions) was first produced on 8 May 1953 at the Theatre du Quartier Latin; it was directed by Michel de Re. SAMUEL BECKETT'S two latest plays, All That Fall and Endgame, have been published recently by Grove Press. E. G. BURROWS is program di- rector for the University of Michigan Broadcasting Service (WUOM). His first volume of poems, Arctic Tern, was pub- lished last year. ALBERT CAMUS was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1957. His "Refléxions sur la Guillotine" was first printed in the June and July (1957) issues of La Nouvelle N.R.F. GREGORY CORSO'S first book of poems, Gasoline, was recently published in the Pocket Poets Series (City Lights Bookshop, San Francisco). "Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway" was first printed in Coastlines. JAMES GRADY reads scripts for Broadway producers and writes copy. He has also written plays. CLEMENT GREENBERG'S col- lection of essays will be published by Beacon Press during the coming year. BARBARA GUEST is writing a play and a novel. She has published poems in Commentary and Parti- san Review. EUGENE IONESCO, a leading experimental dramatist in Paris, is best known here for his The Bald So- prano. A volume of four of his plays will be published by Grove Press. HANS NAMUTH has also made a 16 mm. color film of Jackson Pollock, with spoken commentary by the artist. Our cover photograph is reprinted by courtesy of Harper's Bazaar. FRANK O'HARA is currently writing a novel and a musical comedy. His book of poems, Meditations in an Emergency, appeared in 1957. continued on page 160 ALBERT CAMUS: Reflections on the Guillotine Shortly before World War I, a murderer whose crime was particularly shocking (he had killed a family of farmers, chil- dren and all) was condemned to death in Algiers. He was an agricultural worker who had slaughtered in a bloody delirium, and had rendered his offense still more serious by robbing his victims. The case was widely publicized, and it was generally agreed that decapitation was altogether too mild a punish- ment for such a monster. I have been told this was the opin- ion of my father, who was particularly outraged by the mur- der of the children. One of the few things I know about him is that this was the first time in his life he wanted to attend an execution. He got up while it was still dark, for the place where the guillotine was set up was at the other end of the city, and once there, found himself among a great crowd of spectators. He never told what he saw that morning. My mother could only report that he rushed wildly into the house, refused to speak, threw himself on the bed, and suddenly began to vomit. He had just discovered the reality concealed beneath the great formulas that ordinarily serve to mask it. Instead of thinking of the murdered children, he could recall only the trembling body he had seen thrown on a board to have its head chopped off. This ritual act must indeed be horrible if it can subvert the indignation of a simple, upright man; if the punishment which he regarded as deserved a hundred times over had no other effect