Brion Gysin - Terry Wilson

Brion Gysin is a legend. As an artist, author, filmmaker, and the
long-term collaborator of William S. Burroughs, Gysin helped to develop
the so-called Beat aesthetic from the beginning, influencing one of the
most important American art movements of the last century and helping to
shape decades of literature and art across the world.

In Here to Go, Terry Wilson introduces us to this singular
talent through Gysin's own words. Best known for his discovery of the
cut-up technique and the invention of the Dreamachine, it was to
painting and drawing that Gysin devoted his greatest efforts. Gysin was a
man of diverse interests and strident opinion; the interviews collected
here cover topics as diverse as magick and psychic warfare, and as
intermingled as literature and drugs.

With excerpts from Gysin's own written work and a rare extract from Gysin's original screenplay adaptation for Burrough's Naked Lunch,
this is the most complete assembly of Gysin's written work. And, with
additional texts by Burroughs himself, this is the best introduction to
the life, work, and philosophy of one of the 20th century's most
neglected, yet visionary, polymaths.