{"product_id":"04-05-2022-permutations-by-brion-gysin","title":"Gysin, Brion: Permutations","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDABA Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date: April 12, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher Marketing: The first collection of the Beat mentor's long-influential permutation poems--one of the earliest examples of computer-generated literature\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten between 1958 and 1982, Brion Gysin's permutation poems begin with short phrases or sentences whose constituent words are exhaustively rearranged over the course of the text. At first, Gysin wrote these poems manually, although later, in collaboration with programmer Ian Sommerville, he would write permutation poems with the assistance of a computer, making them a very early instance of computer-generated literature. Some of these works were published in books, while others exist only as audio recordings. Many derive from a 1960 BBC radio commission, \"The Permutated Poems of Brion Gysin,\" in which readings of the texts were recorded, cut up, modulated and overlapped.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the first time, this collection brings together all published and--where transcribable--unpublished versions of each poem, as well as Cut-Ups Self-Explained, a short text by Gysin that contextualizes the work. The poems are organized in chronological order by first publication or first recording, with further versions of each poem grouped together in chronological order immediately after the initial version. This organization brings distinctions between versions into relief, allowing readers to explore the playful systematicity that undergirds this remarkable body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39844001480727,"sku":"9781734681772","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/ibg.common.titledetail-2022-02-02T111249.095.gif?v=1643829347","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/04-05-2022-permutations-by-brion-gysin","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}