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William Seward Burroughs II (born 1914 in St. Louis/Missouri, died 1997 in Lawrence/Kansas) studied Semantics and Medicine at Harvard University. He worked with John Giorno, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Laurie Anderson, Robert Wilson, Tom Waits and Kurt Cobain.
Poetry, novels, social philosophical essays, drawings, mixed media, "Beat Generation" "Cut-Up" technique.

http://www.riflemaker.org/s-Part%20two%20-%20Pistol%20Poem
http://www.ubu.com/film/burroughs.html

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