A Never-Before-Published Cut-Up Masterpiece BATTLE INSTRUCTIONS is the most important new publication by William S. Burroughs not only since the writer’s death in 1997 but quite possibly since The Third Mind made it into print in 1978. Burroughs wrote a number of books in the final decades of his life. His estate, under the leadership…
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Minutes to Go and Mad Men
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting I turn forty this year. It has always struck me as odd which birthdays are most meaningful to me. Sixteen, twenty-one, and thirty weren’t real milestones. Thirteen was my first pivotal birthday, a time for realizing who I was. That birthday party at…
“Burroughs Is a Poet Too, Really”: The Poetics of Minutes to Go
by Oliver Harris Dismissed as Unreadable The long and intimate association of William Burroughs with poets is well known: Ginsberg, most obviously, as well as Corso, Creeley, Ferlinghetti, Leroi Jones, John Giorno, and so on. But to talk of Burroughs’ own material engagement with poetic form and poetics in relation to historical and contemporary practices…
Cut-Up Poems from Minutes to Go
Cut-Up Poetry by William S. Burroughs CANCER MEN. . . THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE MARKED FOE. . . at land coccus germs by a bacilmouth Jersy phenicol bitoics the um vast and varied that specific target was the vast popul – – – – the vast cancers that surgery and Xrays C In the United States…
Minutes to Go
[M&M A3] Paris: Two Cities Editions 1960, bound in wraps, one of 1,000 copies. Maynard & Miles A3a. A collaborative effort between Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Sinclair Beiles, and Gregory Corso, and the first of the “cut-up” publications. There was also a limited edition of 10 copies (only five of which were for sale) each signed…