Permutations Comic Timing essay and poetics with the

essay and poetics with the eye of an archivist

Grotesque fantasies are also occasions for rest and contentment

Ik zeg niet dat alleen mleko klokkend

maar ook het dagelijkse en nachtelijke leven in het bezette Antwerpen

finding in the play of dissatisfaction and endurance a prompt for new poetry

Permutations Comic Timing essay and poetics with theBrion Gysin This volume collects, for the first time, all of Brion Gysins permutated poems. Written between 1958 and 1982, these poems are composed from a brief phrase or sentence whose words are exhaustively or almost exhaustively permuted over the course of each poem. Gysin wrote the texts manually at first, although later, in collaboration with programmer Ian Sommerville, he would generate permutation poems with the help of a computer. There were