For the first time this year, The White Review Poet’s Prize was open to poets based anywhere in the world. Last month we announced a shortlist of eight poets. ...
Brion Gysin was a painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist. He is best known for his discovery of the cut-up technique, used by his friend, the novelist William S. Burroughs. He died in 1986.
Apart from the odd Shakespearean exception, from Othello the Moor of Venice to the Merchant of Venice’s marginal Moroccan suitor, The Prince of Morocco,...