Permutations Komijnsplitsers

Permutations KomijnsplitsersBrion 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

accelerating crises

mountains made of olive stones

these poems document the consequences of the perpetual and 'everywhere war

child of the Nakba

original poetry

Whether alone or in relationship

In these poems are living documents

maar het is het beste wat ik kan schrijven

conscientious of the creaturely and all-too-embodied travails of a rapidly immaterializing modernity

named one of the 10 Best Poetry Books of 2017 by the New York Times Book Review

An April night in London

The text moves