Puffer Volpe

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Puffer Volpe was a beat poet. He never published a book of poetry, instead appearing in magazines, mostly those with small distribution. His brief notoriety in 1961 centered around his claim to have had a brief homosexual encounter with Allen Ginsberg.

Capitalizing on this minor success, he later claimed, with less veracity, to have had a long-term relationship with William S. Burroughs. This culminated in a famous series of letters to Rolling Stone in which Burroughs denied the allegation and Volpe retaliated by criticizing Burroughs's spelling of the word jism, which Burroughs insisted on writing jissom. Quoth Volpe, "Well, then, why not 'jisholme' if we're going to just spell it however we like? Lame, man. Lame."