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Conventional poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 138 Collections and/or Records:

3 Windows / Evason, Greg ; Power N ; Bradley Df ; Burroughs WS., 1988

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Identifier: CC-13431-13733
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by Daniel f. Bradley. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Everything Written Exists / Nettelbeck, F.A. ; Burroughs WS ; Giorno J., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42840-44880
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2004

Insect Trust Gazette. No.1/Sum / Jed Irwin, William Levy, Robert Basara, Leonard Belasco, editors ; Burroughs WS ; Gysin B ; Berge C ; MacLow J ; Arp H ; Ernst M ; Eluard P ; Klee P., 1964

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Identifier: CC-55616-57839
Scope and Contents William Burroughs explanation for his typewriter machine poem accompanying this record (MAS basically a masking process): I enclose an experiment in machine writing that anyone can do on his own typewriter. The experiment consists in passing any prose through a grid. The prose I selected for the present example was press criticisms of Naked Lunch and my latest book Dead Fingers Talk. John Wayne, Philip Toynbee, Anthony Quinton (whoever he may be) John Donnelley (") some joker from the New Yorker and Time. I selected mostly unfavorable criticisms with a special attention to meaningless machine turned phrases such as 'irrelevant honesty of hysteria' the pocked dishonored flesh' ironically the format is banal' etc. Then ruled off a grid "”(Grid I) and wove the prose into it like start a sentence from J. Wane, in square I continue in square 3 5 and 7. Now a sentence from Toyby started in square 2 4 and 6. The reading of the grid back to straight prose can be done say one across and one...
Dates: 1964

Last Words / Burroughs, William S.., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28338-29519
Scope and Contents

The essay consists of excerpts from the journal of Burroughs from May 3 to his final entry on "August 1, Fliday," the day before his death. It reads, "Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is. LOVE." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997