Brion Gysin (1916 – 1986) was a visual artist, historian, novelist, and an experimental poet credited with the discovery of the 'cut-up' technique — a collage of texts, not pictures — which his longtime collaborator William S. Burroughs put to more extensive use. He is also considered one of the early innovators of sound poetry, which he defines as 'getting poetry back off the page and into performance.' Back in No Time gathers materials from the entire Gysin oeuvre: scholarly historical s...

The first anthology of writings by the brilliant avant-gardist: "A valuable book that makes accessible an artist too long considered a cult-eccentric." — Publishers WeeklyBorn in 1916, Brion Gysin was a visual artist, historian, novelist, and experimental poet credited with the discovery of the "cut-up" technique—a collage of texts, not pictures—which his longtime collaborator William S. Burroughs put to more extensive use. He is also cons...