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ISBN-10: 0819565296
ISBN-13: 9780819565297
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publish Date: 01/15/2002
Dimensions: 8.98" L, 5.97" W, 0.90" H

Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader

Editor: Jason Weiss

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Price: $29.95

Overview

First anthology of writings of a brilliant avant-garde figure

Brion Gysin (1916 – 1986) was a visual artist, historian, novelist, and an 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 defines 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, the 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.”

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"This is a valuable book that makes accessible an artist too long considered a cult-eccentric, arguing for an engagement with life in which one grasps constantly for the spiritual in art in a time when frontiers - in time, space, and formal experiment - lured with their promise of adventure . . . This release fills a crucial gap in the historical record."–Publishers Weekly

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ISBN-10: 0819565296
ISBN-13: 9780819565297
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publish Date: 01/15/2002
Dimensions: 8.98" L, 5.97" W, 0.90" H
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