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Author:

Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997, author.

Title:

The travel agency is on fire / William S. Burroughs ; Alex Wermer-Colan, editor.

Publisher:

Center for the Humanitiesthe Graduate Center, The City University of New York,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 58 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

Burroughs, William S.,--1914-1997--Criticism and interpretation.
Authors, American--20th century.
Cut-ups (Literary form)

Other Authors:

Wermer-Colan, Alex, editor. editor.
Alcalay, Ammiel, editor of series.
Mangum, Megan, book designer.
City University of New York. Center for the Humanities, publisher.

Other Titles:

Works. Selections

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 20).

Contents:

Biographical notes. William S. Burroughs ; William Shakespeare -- British romantic poets -- Arthur Rimbaud -- Saint-John Perse -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- James Joyce -- Jean Genet -- J. D. Salinger -- Jack Kerouac -- Anthony Burgess / William S. Burroughs ; Biographical notes.

Summary:

"The Travel Agency is on Fire is a selection of "cut-up" experiments by William S. Burroughs on texts by a range of canonical writers, from William Shakespeare and Arthur Rimbaud to William Wordsworth and James Joyce. Burroughs selected the source texts, cut them up, and juxtaposed the fragments to select random word combinations and create new compositions. Only made available in the archives since 2010, The Travel Agency is on Fire will fascinate scholars and Burroughs fans alike, as they illuminate the experimental processes that underlie Burroughs' work."--Publisher's website (viewed 05/07/2015).

Series:

Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ; series 5, number 2, Spring 2015

ISBN:

0988894548 (series)
9780988894549 (series)
0988894556
9780988894556

OCLC:

(OCoLC)908660011

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)