{"id":49014,"date":"2021-11-19T12:51:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=49014"},"modified":"2021-11-21T20:21:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T01:21:50","slug":"i-am-that-i-am-i-am-that-am-i-brion-gysin-and-the-divine-tautology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2021\/11\/i-am-that-i-am-i-am-that-am-i-brion-gysin-and-the-divine-tautology.html","title":{"rendered":" ‘I Am That I Am’ ‘I Am That, Am I?’<\/em><\/font>
Brion Gysin and the Divine Tautology<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The Brooklyn-based publisher DABA is bringing out the most complete edition of Brion Gysin’s permutated poems published and recorded to date. The book is gorgeous to look at, sets the poems in their rightful context, and does justice to Ian Sommerville’s computer collaboration.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“The whole idea of the permutations came to me visually on seeing the so-called Divine Tautology, in print. It looked wrong, to me, non-symmetrical. The biggest word, That, belonged in the middle but all I had to do was switch the last two words and It asked a question: ‘I Am That, Am I?’ The rest followed.” \u2014 Brion Gysin<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 \u2022 \u2022 ‘I Am That I Am’ \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 ‘I Am That, Am I?’ \u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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PERMUTATIONS (edited and designed by Alec Mapes-Frances), DABA Press<\/a> (2021).<\/em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Table of Contents<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PERMUTATIONS (Table of Contents)<\/em> Click to enlarge.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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PERMUTATIONS \/ pp 8-9 \/ The sequential permutation of the Divine Tautology ‘I AM THAT I AM’ begins.<\/em>
Click to enlarge.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe whole idea of the permutations came to me visually on seeing the so-called Divine Tautology in print. It looked wrong, to me, non-symmetrical. The biggest word, That, belonged in the middle but all I had to do was switch the last two words and It asked a question: \u2018I Am That, Am I?\u2019 The rest followed.\u201d \u2014 Brion Gysin<\/p>\n

The Brooklyn-based publisher DABA Press is bringing out the most complete edition of Brion Gysin\u2019s permutated poems published and recorded to date. The book is gorgeous to look at, sets the poems in their rightful context, and does justice to Ian Sommerville\u2019s computer collaboration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-books","9":"category-literature","10":"category-main","11":"category-news","12":"category-political-culture","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/brion-gysin-PERMUTATIONS-front-cover-200x200-.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-cKy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49014"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49085,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49014\/revisions\/49085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}