Boo-Hooray, in collaboration with Emory University, is presenting a William S. Burroughs centenary exhibition dedicated to the Cut-Up technique. On view will be hand-edited typescript drafts from the Nova Trilogy, rarely seen publications like the mimeographed newsletter The Burrough and the Sigma Portfolio, alongside correspondence with Brion Gysin, vinyl releases, as well as the original […]
Archives for October 2014
Another Sonnet Maudit from Cold Turkey Press
!['Morose Delectation' by Gerard Bellaart [1981]](https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/morose-delectation-20-1-1981-670-200x200.jpg)
More conventional but still not Petrarchan, Spenserian, or Shakespearean. And not in Ted’s style either. Best of all, it’s presented with Gerard Bellaart’s ‘Morose Delectation,’ chosen by my staff of thousands. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
Long-Awaited ‘Algren’ Bows at Chicago Film Festival
Is this Nelson Algren’s moment? If it is, I don’t think he’d give a damn — not personally — considering he’s gone and how long ago that was. I also don’t think he’d appreciate what has become a cliché of the Algren myth — the forgotten writer. Sure, he’s forgotten. Most writers are. And of […]
Long-Awaited ‘Algren’ Documentary to Open in Chicago
Is this Nelson Algren’s moment? If it is, I don’t think he’d give a damn — not personally — considering he’s gone and how long ago that was. I also don’t think he’d appreciate what has become a cliché of the Algren myth — the forgotten writer. Sure, he’s forgotten. Most writers are. And of […]
Cold Turkey’s Sonnets Maudits — No Drum Roll, Please
!['Hear Say' by Jan Herman (illustration by Gerard Bellaart) Cold Turkey Press [2014]](https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/HEAR-SAY-12w-italjpeg670-200x200.jpg)
Not Petrarchan, Spenserian, or Shakespearean. And not in Ted’s style either. Previously . . . And another: “Dream Room.” EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
Poet Says, ‘Ecstasy Can Postpone Every Deadline . . .’
![‘Love in Old Age’ by Heathcote Williams [Cold Turkey Press, 2014]](https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/love-in-old-agerecto-e1412169545508.jpg)
Love in Old Age Someone I’ve known since I was twelve Happened to tell me the other day, ‘We’re now on the shady side of the hill. ‘Not many more days to play.’ But I found myself pretending I hadn’t heard what he’d said — The implication being so unsettling: He was saying we’d soon […]