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Kick That Habit? Bellaart Does Burroughs

January 20, 2015 by Jan Herman

This pencil drawing of William S. Burroughs by Gerard Bellaart is one of two portraits. It’s the introspective Burroughs. The other drawing, a charcoal sketch to be posted soon, catches Burroughs in a wholly different state of mind, as if possessed by the Ugly Spirit that Burroughs believed had dogged him throughout his life. The text on the card is an excerpt from “Incidental Intelligence” to be published in full in The Z Collection, a tryptich of portraits to include Godfrey Reggio and Norman Mailer.

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  1. Mark Terrill says

    January 22, 2015 at 9:34 am

    ULTRAZONE: Tangier Tombstone Blues

    A collaborative work-in-progress by Francis Poole and Mark Terrill

    Now appearing in serialized form in B O D Y

    http://bodyliterature.com/2015/01/19/francis-poole-mark-terrill-part-6/

    ULTRAZONE; Tangier Tombstone Blues is a fictional tale about the ghost of William S. Burroughs returning to Tangier to try to find and destroy a lost manuscript of his, in which he believes the “Ugly Spirit” is dwelling, the same Ugly Spirit that had been haunting him ever since he accidently shot his wife, Joan Vollmer, in Mexico City in 1951. There are also appearances by the ghosts of Paul Bowles, Brion Gysin, Joseph Dean (of Dean’s Bar), Brain Jones and others, as well as many living persons, both real and fictional, looping in and out of several intertwining subplots. Despite the macabre nature of the storyline, it’s a humorous tale, weaving fact and fiction and much local Tangier color and history together into a sort of kaleidoscopic fable.

    The inspiration for this collaboration came in part from Burroughs’s idea stated in The Third Mind, that “when you put two minds together…there is always a third mind…as an unseen collaborator.” Francis and Mark have already published two other collaborative chapbooks of poetry, The Spleen of Madrid and A Pair of Darts, both from the Feral Press, in 2012.

    ULTRAZONE: Tangier Tombstone Blues will be appearing in weekly installments.

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