Comments on: Small Press Correspondence at Auction https://realitystudio.org A William S. Burroughs Community Wed, 27 May 2020 23:14:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: Nick Sturm https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/find-of-the-week/small-press-correspondence-at-auction/comment-page-1/#comment-826720 Wed, 27 May 2020 23:14:49 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=3882#comment-826720 Thanks for pointing to the Lot 250 collection here–as you note, there are letters to Burroughs from Ron Padgett and Ted Berrigan pictured in the collection image (Padgett’s the second from right, Berrigan’s on the far right–the “22 Jan 65” date is his hand). I’ve just finished an essay on Burroughs’s “textual infection” of the second generation New York School poets that centers on the “C” Press TIME and would love to know who has this correspondence now. There are also unanswered questions about a wayward Berrigan/Veitch-made “The Moving Times” original textual-visual collage I recently came across in archive at Northwestern that these letters likely address. What an amazing set. Hopefully it was purchased by a special collections curator.

]]> By: Daniel Lauffer https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/find-of-the-week/small-press-correspondence-at-auction/comment-page-1/#comment-781236 Mon, 29 Jul 2019 15:37:17 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=3882#comment-781236 I was pleased and surprised to see the de Gourmont quote typed on the top of my letter. I suspect that the letter took pride of place in the catalogue picture because it was on the same brown Fabriano cover stock as the magazine.

My thanks to all who identified the quote. Burroughs may have associated the color of the paper with his image of dead leaves.

Dan

]]> By: Mike Stevens https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/find-of-the-week/small-press-correspondence-at-auction/comment-page-1/#comment-780129 Mon, 08 Jul 2019 15:14:00 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=3882#comment-780129 This is from Remy de Gourmont “Les Fevilles Mortes.” French writer. An early influence for Burroughs, who read Anatole France, Oscar Wilde and Remy de Gourmont as a young man at the Los Alamos Ranch School. “Favorite quotes: ‘J’aime ces types vicieux qu’ici montrent la bite.’ On wall of outdoor pissoir in Paris. ‘Simon, aime tule bruit des pas surles fevilles mortes?’ – Reme de Gourmont…” LW p. 49. (“Simone, do you like the sound of stepping on dead leaves?”)

Hope this helps!

]]> By: Jed https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/find-of-the-week/small-press-correspondence-at-auction/comment-page-1/#comment-780085 Mon, 08 Jul 2019 01:08:48 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=3882#comment-780085 A letter from his brother right. Mort Sr. Died in 1965. Maybe a letter relating to the visit to St. Louis before or after.

As for the Simon and the French check out pg 148 of Last Words.

]]> By: Jeff Ball https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/find-of-the-week/small-press-correspondence-at-auction/comment-page-1/#comment-780082 Mon, 08 Jul 2019 00:38:29 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=3882#comment-780082 And Burroughs (presumably) has typed on Dan Lauffer’s letter, in French, SIMON, Do you like the sound of footsteps on dead leaves?

]]> By: Jeff Ball https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/find-of-the-week/small-press-correspondence-at-auction/comment-page-1/#comment-780081 Mon, 08 Jul 2019 00:29:47 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=3882#comment-780081 What do you reckon the Mortimer Burroughs letterhead is?

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