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Tag: Texts by Burroughs

Old Arch

by William S. Burroughs “Old Arch” first appeared in The Beatest State In The Union: An Anthology of Beat Texas Writings, edited by Christopher Carmona, Rob Johnson, and Chuck Taylor (Lamar University Press, 2015). It appears here on RealityStudio courtesy of James Grauerholz and the William S. Burroughs Estate. [Editor’s note: Arch Ellisor was a…

Crawdaddy Archive

Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting CrawdaddyJune 1975 William S. Burroughs’ “Rock Magic“ CrawdaddyAugust 1975 William S. Burroughs’ “Beauty & the Bestseller” Collected in The Adding Machine CrawdaddySeptember 1975 William S. Burroughs’ “Ten Years and a Billion Dollars” Collected in The Adding Machine CrawdaddyOctober 1975 William S. Burroughs’ “‘I…

L’Internationale Hallucinex

Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting L’Internationale Hallucinex (Maynard & Miles B 56) was published in 1970 by Soleil Noir in Paris. A box containing eight pamphlets, a French translation of William Burroughs “Invisible Generation” in the section titled “Manifestes de la Génération Grise et Invisible.” The pamphlet also…

Cleft

Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting For more on Cleft, see Jed Birmingham’s essay on Burroughs and Scotland. Cleft 11963 Contains William S. Burroughs’ “Martin’s Folly” Download entire issue Cleft 21964 Contains William S. Burroughs’ “Distant Hand Lifted” Download entire issue Scanned by Jed Birmingham and published by RealityStudio…

My Legs SeƱor

A Poem by William S. Burroughs attic room and window my ice skates on the wall the Priest could see the bathroom pale yellow wood panels toilet young legs shiny black leg hairs “It is my legs señor.” lustre of stumps rinses his lavender horizen feeling the boy groan and what it meant face of…

Untitled Text on Guy Harloff

by William S. Burroughs William Burroughs, Untitled text on Guy Harloff, Exhibition Catalogue, Paris, December 1961. (Note: This same text was published in Bizarre magazine in 1963.) Painting is a silent language of juxtaposition, is a form of writing — In the painting of Harloff isolated words used as objects remind the observer: words are…

Untitled Cut-Up from Takis Catalogue

by William S. Burroughs William Burroughs, “Paris 1960” (Untitled Text from Takis Catalogue), Howard Wise Gallery, New York, 1967 Song cut along typographical magnetic lines from Anibasis St. John Perse Illuminations Rimbaud “say only this should have been obvious from her fourth grade junk class”: song for her your heart the red night jargon muffles….

David Budd rencontre William Burroughs et Earle Brown chez Rodolphe Stadler

1964 Gallery Catalogue William S. Burroughs, Untitled Cut-Up in David Budd rencontre William Burroughs et Earle Brown chez Rodolphe Stadler exhibition catalogue. A SILENT SUNDAY TO THE POST OUR FLAT AT HALF MAST AGAINST TALL BLACK WINDOWS OF THE DORMITORY. / ‘I WILL SING FOR YOU AND I HAVE MAYBE UNDRESSED THERE AND I AM…

Untitled Text on Guy Harloff (Bizarre Magazine)

by William S. Burroughs William Burroughs, Untitled text on Guy Harloff, Bizarre 28, 1963. (Note: This text was first printed in the 1961 Guy Harloff exhibition catalogue.) Painting is a silent language of juxtaposition, is a form of writing. In the painting of Harloff isolated words occur used as objects remind the observer: words are…

Pry Yourself Loose and Listen

Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting “Not in Maynard and Miles” — the phrase is the siren’s song for Burroughs collectors. Obsessives like Eric Shoaf and Brian Shottlaender, spend much of their free time looking for these unicorns. Sometimes they are just narwhal horns, like “Wind Die, You Die,…

Introduction to The Fluke

Published and Draft Introductions to Jacques Stern’s The Fluke by William S. Burroughs Jacques Stern is a writer.. That is he is writing actual events and conditions.. He says he is far away and this is literally true.. He says he is in ice and this is literally true, far away.. He far now is…..

Cold Lost Marbles

A Poem by William S. Burroughs my ice skates on a wall lustre of stumps washes his lavander horizon he’s got a handsome face of a lousy kid rooming-houses dirty fingers whistled in the shadow “Wait for me at the detour.” river… snow… some one vague faded in a mirror filigree of trade winds clouds…

“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…

Pistol Poem No. 3

by William S. Burroughs Power Is Often Very Quiet Power Is Often Quiet Very Power Is Very Quiet Often Power Is Very Often Quiet Power Is Quiet Often Very Power Is Quiet Very Often Power Often Very Quiet Is Power Often Very Is Quiet Power Often Quiet Is Very Power Often Quiet Very Is Power…

Pistol Poem No. 2

by William S. Burroughs Who Controls The Control Men Who Controls The Men Control Who Controls Control Men The Who Controls Control The Men Who Controls Men The Control Who Controls Men Control The Who The Control Men Controls Who The Control Controls Men Who The Men Controls Control Who The Men Control Controls Who…

Fear and the Monkey

A Poem by William S. Burroughs August 1978 This text arranged in my New York loft, which is the converted locker room of an old YMCA. Guests have reported the presence of a ghost boy. So this is a Oui-Ja board poem taken from Dumb Instrument, a book of poems by Denton Welch, and spells…

Where Flesh Circulates

A Poem by William S. Burroughs Its so hard to remember in the world – –   Weren’t you there?        Dead so you think of ports – – Couldn’t reach flesh – –       Might have to reach flesh from anybody – –             And i will depart      under the Red Masters            for strange dawn words          of color                      exalting their            falling on my face   impending attack         satellite in a            Gold and perfumes          of light              city red stone           shadows brick terminal time             wet dream flesh            creakily the           the last feeble faces             fountains play stale           spit from crumpled cloth               Weimar youths            on my face           bodies           where flesh circulates             Masters of color          exalting their dogs      impending attack of light          unaware of the vagrant        shadows on the Glass and Metal Streets          silver flying   scanning patterns    electric dogs          dark street life   “Here he is now”       staring out          from the dawn           he strode toward the flesh     jissom webs drifting          where identity       scarred metal faces      masturbating          “Who him?” spitting blood laugh on the iron   afternoons           ejaculates wet dream flesh          in red brick Terminal Time           red nitrous fumes  under the orange gas flares          grey metal fall out               on terminal cities          to the shrinking sky fading color   sewage delta         caught in this dead whistle stop                     post card sky         dead rainbow flesh             and copper pagodas                flickered on the         in a city of red stone       black skin work fish smell and         dead eyes in doorways red water words             spitting blood laugh         sharp as water reeds      fish syllables         stirring this Moroccan sunlight           vagrant noon station         spent in the mirror          dawn jissom webs       drifting rainbow         speeded up from afternoon’s       slow ferris wheel          flesh. Originally published in Floating Bear 24 in September-October 1962. Republished by RealityStudio in August 2010.

Spain & 42 St.

A Poem by William S. Burroughs     Language like muttering    pant smells running    silver scanning Passed down the Arab Street          in the gutter      patterns Translucent medium from           its like  i talky you of      a place         the vacuum of silent panic                 …

Dead Whistle Stop Already End

A Poem by William S. Burroughs     Ahab to his companion      falling over there in any         out from the dawn       skin              staring          stirring unbelief                               he strode towards a long…

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…

The Poetry of William S. Burroughs

An Ongoing Attempt to Collect the Poetry of William S. Burroughs William S. Burroughs is generally considered a novelist. To make the case that he was also a poet is neither revisionist nor perverse but absurd. After all, Burroughs paid about as much obeisance to genre or medium as he did to the law. His…

Tangier Cut-Up (from Esquire)

by William S. Burroughs The September 1964 issue of Esquire features a photo-essay titled “Tangier.” Alongside pictures by photographer Robert Freson, William Burroughs provided captions and the following text. See also Jed Birmingham’s essay, “William S. Burroughs, Esquire, and New Journalism.” In these foreign suburbs here, a map of Tangier on a flaking plaster wall….

Jan Herman as Publisher of Nova Broadcast Press

Nova Broadcasts Ray BremserDrive Suite Nova Broadcast 11969 Download Complete Broadcast Wolf VostellMiss Vietnam Nova Broadcast 21969 Download Complete Broadcast Dick HigginsA Book about Love & War & Death Nova Broadcast 31969 Download Complete Broadcast Liam O’GallagherPlanet Noise Nova Broadcast 41969 Download Complete Broadcast William BurroughsThe Dead Star Nova Broadcast 51969 Download Complete Broadcast Norman…

William Burroughs and David Solomon

Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting I have a theory that if you dig deep enough, take the time to ask the right questions, and do diligent research, everybody is interesting. It is my spin on Andy Warhol’s fifteen minutes. I guess I see the silver lining in the…

William S. Burroughs’ “Abstracts”

The “Abstracts” As an Attempt to Write the Immediate Image By Dave Teeuwen The “Abstracts” of 1969 are a series of seven writing experiments which William Burroughs developed in the writing of his novel The Wild Boys. He published these “Abstracts” that year in small-press journals and underground newspapers, his usual testing ground in the…

Bulletin from Nothing (Issue 2)

Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Bulletin from Nothing 2Front cover Bulletin from Nothing 2Front Endpaper Bulletin from Nothing 2Front Endpaper Bulletin from Nothing 2William Burroughs Bulletin from Nothing 2William Burroughs Bulletin from Nothing 2William Burroughs Bulletin from Nothing 2William Burroughs Bulletin from Nothing 2Roxie Powell and Claude Pélieu…

Bulletin from Nothing (Issue 1)

Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Bulletin from Nothing 1Front cover Bulletin from Nothing 1Endpaper Bulletin from Nothing 1Claude Pelieu Bulletin from Nothing 1Claude Pelieu Bulletin from Nothing 1Claude Pelieu Bulletin from Nothing 1Mary Beach Bulletin from Nothing 1Claude Pelieu Bulletin from Nothing 1Claude Pelieu Bulletin from Nothing 1Jeff…

Abstract (Lip 1969)

A Text by William S. Burroughs With an Introduction by Dave Teeuwen In 1969 William Burroughs published seven short pieces titled “Abstract” and sent them out to various small-press literary magazines and underground newspapers. Throughout the 1960s Burroughs was extremely active with the alternative press. Bibliographies of his work show that he was published hundreds…

William Burroughs in January 1960 Mademoiselle

W.S. Burroughs is an American in Paris whom the Saturday Review describes as “a writer of great power and artistic integrity.” Cable: “What do you want in the next decade for world, not self” Reply: Chere Mademoiselle: I am placed by you in the otherworldly, selfless and detached position of a losing better [sic] before…

William Burroughs’ Word in Swank

Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Q: What is with all the men’s magazines? A: Oh, I read them for the articles. Really? In part. Take exhibit A: the July 1961 issue of Swank. For anybody interested in the textual history of Naked Lunch, this issue proves to be…

Burroughs’ Statements at the 1962 International Writers’ Conference

William S. Burroughs In 1962 William S. Burroughs appeared at the International Writers’ Conference in Edinburgh. He read statements at the panels on Censorship and on The Future of the Novel. RealityStudio has not yet been able to obtain a transcript of the conference (can anyone help?), but later that year the Transatlantic Review published…

Burroughs and Beats in Men’s Magazines: William Burroughs Appearances in Adult Men’s Magazines

Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting This list is by no means comprehensive, although I attempted to make it as complete as possible. I combed through Maynard & Miles and Eric Shoaf’s Checklist marking down all the men’s magazines with William Burroughs fiction, essays, or interviews. I took adult…

Time

Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Recently, I received an email asking me about a copy of Time, a limited edition collage piece published by C Press. According to its copyright page, Time was published in 1965 in 1000 copies. 886 copies comprised the trade edition. These copies were…

APO-33

Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting I spent some more time on Dave Moore’s page of Burroughs covers the other night. An interesting piece could be written on the cover art and external packaging of Burroughs’ work over the past five decades similar to the essays that have been…

Burroughs Blurbs

A Compilation of Book-Jacket Blurbs by William S. Burroughs It’s always hard to know exactly what to make of the blurbs that authors contribute to the jackets of books written by other authors. Are they sincere endorsements of the quality of a book? Are they fragments of sham praise extorted from friends? Are they recommendations…

Mind Parasites by Colin Wilson

Reviewed by William S. Burroughs “The human race is being attacked by a sort of mind cancer. Something is sucking the human mind dry and has been sucking it for the past two hundred years.” That is the shattering discovery made by Professor Gilbert Austin. Who or what is responsible? Mind parasites, malignant beings who…

Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986

William S. Burroughs For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanks for the wild turkey and the Passenger Pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts — thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison — thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger — thanks for vast…

William S. Burroughs On Scientology

(Los Angeles Free Press, 06 Mar 1970) William S. Burroughs In view of the fact that my articles and statements on Scientology may have influenced young people to associate themselves with the so called Church of Scientology, I feel an obligation to make my present views on the subject quite clear. Some of the techniques…

Electronic Revolution

William S. Burroughs (Expanded Media Editions, 1971) FEEDBACK FROM WATERGATE TO THE GARDEN OF EDEN In the beginning was the word and the word was god and has remained one of the mysteries ever since. The word was God and the word was flesh we are told. In the beginning of what exactly was this…

The Mayan Caper

(Excerpt from The Soft Machine) William S. Burroughs Joe Brundige brings you the shocking story of the Mayan Caper exclusive to The Evening News — A Russian scientist has said: “We will travel not only in space but in time as well” — I have just returned from a thousand-year time trip and I am…

The Death Dwarf in the Street

(Excerpt from Nova Express) William S. Burroughs Biologic Agent K9 called for his check and picked up supersonic imitation blasts of The Death Dwarfs — “L’addition — Laddition — Laddittion — Garcon — Garcon — Garcon” — American tourist accent to the Nth power — He ordered another coffee and monitored the café — A…

Crab Nebula

(Excerpt from Nova Express) William S. Burroughs They do not have what they call “emotion’s oxygen” in the atmosphere. The medium in which animal life breathes is not in that soulless place — Yellow plains under white hot blue sky — Metal cities controlled by The Elders who are heads in bottles — Fastest brains…

The Man Who Taught His Asshole to Talk

(aka “The Talking Asshole Routine” from Naked Lunch) William S. Burroughs Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down you dig farting out the words. It was unlike anything I ever heard. This ass talk had sort of a gut frequency….

Dr. Benway Operates

(Excerpt from Naked Lunch) William S. Burroughs The lavatory has been locked for three hours solid…. I think they are using it for an operating room…. NURSE: “I can’t find her pulse, doctor.” DR. BENWAY: “Maybe she got it up her snatch in a finger stall.” NURSE: “Adrenalin, doctor?” DR. BENWAY: “The night porter shot…

Introduction from Queer

William S. Burroughs When I lived in Mexico City at the end of the 1940s, it was a city of one million people, with clear sparkling air and the sky that special shade of blue that goes so well with circling vultures, blood and sand–the raw menacing pitiless Mexican blue. I liked Mexico City from…

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