Series V
Series V
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Lost & Found Series V features Kathy Acker, William S.
Burroughs, Langston Hughes, and Jean Sénac: four major writers
responding to sweeping socio-political shifts around the globe. To what
extent they resist, ride, and provoke these shifts is written into their
prose, poetry, manifestos, travel notes, diaries, letters, and
friendships. While working at a strip club in Times Square in 1972,
Kathy Acker writes
Homage to Leroi Jones and other “exercises,” as part of an effort to map her “total present consciousness.” In The Travel Agency is on Fire,
William S. Burroughs performs cut-ups on authors related to his
personal cannon and ranging from William Shakespeare to Anthony Burgess.
Across the ocean, Algerian poet Jean Sénac writes
Le soleil sous les armes [The Sun Under the Weapons],
a revolutionary manifesto urging for nothing short of total cultural
transformation, sexual liberation, and political independence. Traveling
between Moscow to Tashkent in 1932, Langston Hughes befriends,
photographs, and translates the works of young poets writing in Uzbek in
his travelogues, excerpted here as part of
Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos & Notebooks from Turkestan. Through the publication of these varied texts, Lost & Found Series V connects
the liberatory politics and radical writing practices of New York in
the 1970s, France and Algiers in the 1960s, and the Soviet Union and
Turkestan in the 1930s.