I saw this one on a shelf at work. I love the collage style cover. I also love that it's a book about cats by William S. Burroughs. This series of prose poems, written when Burroughs was in his early 70s, shows a gentler side of the author of Junkie and Naked Lunch, as he reminisces about the many cats he has known, and ponders man's relationship to cats. It's a rather slim volume--I read it in a sitting.
Monday, May 10, 2010
The Cat Inside by William S. Burroughs
I saw this one on a shelf at work. I love the collage style cover. I also love that it's a book about cats by William S. Burroughs. This series of prose poems, written when Burroughs was in his early 70s, shows a gentler side of the author of Junkie and Naked Lunch, as he reminisces about the many cats he has known, and ponders man's relationship to cats. It's a rather slim volume--I read it in a sitting.
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Bit of a Burroughs freak, I really need to read this! Is this when he ponders the characters of his pets in relation to people he has known--dead friends, lovers etc? Goes into a bit of speculation about the heavy use of feline imagery in Egyptian funerary iconography? I should get it, I've been going through a massive China Meiville obsession at the moment, though!
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