The Burroughs File

William S. Burroughs

City Lights Books

San Francisco, 1984

 

 

"...burning a path through charred flesh and shredded brains."

W.S. Burroughs, Distant Heels



The Modern Man                                         El Lissitski

Travels: Collected Writings 1950-1993

Paul Bowles

HarperCollins

New York

2010

 

 

"He made a name for himself as a composer, writing the music for a number of films and stage-plays. He was a music ethnologist, an early recorder of ethnic songs and melodies in remote villages in Morocco and Mexico. He wrote novels and short stories. He wrote poems. He translated novels and poems from Spanish, French and Arabic, and created more than a dozen books with the Moroccan storyteller Mohammed Mrabet."

-from the introduction by Paul Theroux

"Security is a false god; begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost."

-Paul Bowles, Notes Mailed at Nagercoil, 1957



Printers Row, Chicago

 

 

"The First Impression"

The Street



Roadside Pennsylvania

The Inner Ear

   "Word authority more habit forming than heroin no this is not the old power addicts talk I am talking about a certain excercise of authority through the use of words authority words habit more forming than heroin that is the use of these words engram words colorless words form the user more than heroin and he must have more and more heroin authority words more habit than forming that is the words of narcotics control as used by the American Narcotics Dept. more habit forming than can be maintained which is why they must continually spread the problem "authority" more habit forming than word 'heroin' that is the particular authority derived from the enforcement of narcotics laws is more habit forming than the word heroin."

-Wm. Burroughs

Kugelhaus

Excellence




M. Hill

 



Closeup                                                                    M. Hill

The Street



Tribune                             M. Hill 2013

The Inner Ear

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with a rope
and torture a confession out of it

They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means

-Billy Collins
"Introduction to Poetry"

The Inner Ear

Creative minds have been known to survive any sort of bad training.
- Anna Freud

Chicago River                               Mike Hill 2013

http://traceystruth.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/poetry_image.jpg

from Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh

The Inner Ear

"...the Aruacs' patois crackled in the smell
of a resinous bonfire that turned the leaves brown
With curling tongues, then ash, and their language was lost."
-Derek Walcott, "Omeros"

"I shut my eyes in order to see" - Paul Gauguin

The Inner Ear

  "Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all." -Walt Whitman

http://www.brainyquote.com/

Seamus Heaney

1939-2013
https://www.google.com/#q=seamus+heaney