Back in No Time

by Gysin, Brion; Weiss, Jason

• ISBN13: 9780819565280
• ISBN10: 0819565288
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr

Summary

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."

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	ix
That Secret Look	1	(2)
From a Lost Novel	3	(13)
Recollections of a Lost Seascape	3	(7)
Time and Brother Griphen	10	(6)
To Master-A Long Goodnight (excerpts)	16	(44)
Potiphar's Wife	60	(9)
Early Cut-Up Experiments	69	(10)
First Cut-Ups	70	(3)
Minutes to Go	73	(2)
Cut Me Up Brion Gysin	75	(4)
Permutation Poems	79	(16)
I Am That I Am	80	(8)
Junk Is No Good Baby	88	(1)
Kick That Habit Man	89	(1)
No Poets Don't Own Words	89	(4)
I Don't Work You Dig	93	(1)
This Is Sam Francis	94	(1)
Brion Gysin Let the Mice In	95	(7)
The Poem of Poems	102	(11)
Dreamachine	113	(4)
Unpublished Notes on Painting	117	(5)
The Pipes of Pan	122	(3)
About the Cut-Ups	125	(11)
Cut-Ups: A Project for Disastrous Success	125	(7)
Cut-Ups Self-Explained	132	(4)
Am I the One?	136	(5)
Janicot	141	(3)
The Process (excerpts)	144	(46)
The Naked Lunch Screenplay (excerpts)	190	(28)
A Quick Trip to Alamut	218	(22)
Fire: Words by Day-Images by Night	240	(17)
Psacre Psilocybin and Magic Mushrooms	257	(4)
Not by Me	261	(5)
Songs	266	(13)
Nowhere Street (score by Steve Lacy)	267	(5)
Somebody Special (score by Steve Lacy)	272	(2)
Clementeena Soopastar	274	(1)
Dreams (score by Steve Lacy)	275	(1)
Gay Paree Bop	276	(1)
Sham Pain	277	(1)
Stop Smoking	278	(1)
Hamri's Hands	279	(3)
Snapshots from the Family Album (excerpts)	282	(5)
An Encomium for Allen Ginsberg	287	(2)
Calligraffiti of Fire	289	(2)
The Sculpted Line	291	(1)
The Last Museum	292	(57)
The Door	293	(4)
Hotel Bardo	297	(1)
Back Jacket Copy	297	(1)
The Last Museum (excerpts)	298	(41)
Drawings for The Last Museum by Keith Haring	339	(10)
Bibliography	349	(2)
Discography	351	(2)
Permissions	353