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

Title
The travel agency is on fire / William S. Burroughs ; Alex Wermer-Colan, editor.
Author
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997
Publication
  • New York : Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 2015.
  • ©2015

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  • Wermer-Colan, Alex
  • Alcalay, Ammiel
  • Mangum, Megan
  • City University of New York. Center for the Humanities publisher.
  • Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe
Description
6 unnumbered pages, 58 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
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 Firewill fascinate scholars and Burroughs fans alike, as they illuminate the experimental processes that underlie Burroughs’ work."--Publisher's website (viewed 05/07/2015).
Series Statement
Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ; series 5, number 2, Spring 2015
Uniform Title
  • Works. Selections
  • Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ser. 5, no. 2.
  • Woodberry Poetry Room Blue Star collection of books and manuscripts.
Alternative Title
Works.
Subject
  • Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Authors, American > 20th century
  • Cut-ups (Literary form)
Genre/Form
  • Chapbooks, American – 21st century.
  • Chapbooks – New York (State) – New York – 2015.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 20).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Alex Wermer-Colan, editor ; 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.
ISBN
  • 9780988894549 (series)
  • 9780988894556
OCLC
  • 908660011
  • SCSB-12128738
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library