| Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader Contributor(s): Gysin, Brion (Author), Weiss, Jason (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0819565296 ISBN-13: 9780819565297 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2002 Annotation: 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." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 818.540 |
| LCCN: 2001026976 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.97" W x 8.98" (1.25 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |