Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader

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Synopsis
The first anthology of writings by the brilliant avant-gardist: &“A valuable book that makes accessible an artist too long considered a cult-eccentric.&” —Publishers Weekly Born in 1916, Brion Gysin was a visual artist, historian, novelist, and experimental poet credited with the discovery of the &“cut-up&” technique—a collage of texts, not pictures—which his longtime collaborator William S. Burroughs put to more extensive use. He is also considered one of the early innovators of sound poetry, which he defined as &“getting poetry back off the page and into performance.&” Back in No Time gathers materials from the entire Gysin oeuvre: scholarly historical study, baroque fiction, permutated and cut-up poetry, unsettling memoir, selections from The Process and The Last Museum, and his unproduced screenplay of Burroughs&’ novel Naked Lunch. In addition, this reader contains complete texts of several Gysin pieces that are difficult to find, including &“Poem of Poems,&” &“The Pipes of Pan,&” and &“A Quick Trip to Alamut.&”
Copyright:
2001

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
400 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780819576163
Related ISBNs:
9780819565297
Publisher:
Wesleyan University Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Brion Gysin, Jason Weiss
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Jason Weiss

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