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The book is Illustrated by Bob Gale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This ia s surreal journey to steal the corpse of William S. Burroughs. With autobiographical snippets of Nettelbeck's own times with Burroughs.tHIS -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Periodical filled with poetry and political art. There were a few creators mentioned on the cover who did not have agent links: C. Pelieu, J. Pomy-Vega, N. Rubington, H. Smith, U. Gwerder, J. Rubin, C. Jefferson, T. Wright.

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Front and back covers were drawn by Allen Ginsberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Gysin is interviewed by Wilson, with an introduction by William S. Burroughs. They discuss Morocco, magic, science, literature, painting and music. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book, Chopin provides the basis for sound poetry -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was edited by Jan Herman. Gysin documents the making of cut-ups and his "Dream Machine" in this book. Also, this book includes three labels from the exhibition "Beyond Geometry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book mainly documents the indictment and trial of the author for sending five "indecent" postcards in the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book mainly documents the indictment and trial of the author for sending five "indecent" postcards in the mail. It is reprinted from the 1976 edition; the back covers differ. The loose sheets consist of a biography and bibliography. The photograph depicts a visual poem related to Queen Elizabeth. The rubberstamp reads unsolicited pornography and is stored separately. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This catalogue, edited by Robert A. Sobieszek, curator of photography at LACMA, was issued for an exhibition in 1996. It emphasizes the importance and influence of the painted and poetic works as well as the life of William Burroughs and his collaborator, Brion Gysin. In his preface Sobieszek writes that "Burroughs is far more than a writer of imaginative prose and speculative fiction. His revolutionary literary tactics have led him to margins of activity where genres cease to matter, where the distinctions between words and images blend together, where paragraphs become filmic montage, and where a shotgun blast is the same as a painting. At the core of Burroughs's art is the 'cut-up' technique that he and Brion Gysin developed following the appearance of Naked Lunch. While loosely related to the more traditional techniques of collage, photomontage, and text-image experiments used by modern artists, Burroughs's cut- up strategy inaugurated an essentially postmodern shift in the...

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This collage done as an homage to William Burroughs has a picture of the writer in the background and cut-ups (a technique which originated with Burroughs and Gysin) of text from newspapers and periodicals overlaying his image to produce a new fiction/poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was illustrated by Bob Gale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the first edition. It includes reproductions of "Pages from Cut-Up Scrapbooks" in which Burroughs' pasted remnants from "Moroccan streets, weird news items, St. Louis memorabilia, ruminations on sex and death, old photographs, notes from narcs, and other essential exotica - an incredible montage of telescoped existence on the main line, source material and matrix of his books." There are also sections of Burroughs' The White Subway, The Old Movies, The Cobble Stone Gardens, and The Retreat Diaries, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.