Painting & Guns

Madras, India; New York,NY: Hanuman Books, 1992. First Edition. Softcover in Over-Wraps. "I am trying to get the pictures to move. It almost happens: A face comes into almost miraculously clear focus, smiles, snarls, speaks. Then back into the picture, there on the paper, the wood. Look outside at the trees and leaves in front of the bedroom window. They move in the wind. The same thing is happening. I see faces, scenes, look at that vista of blackened, swollen corpses. There are green monkeys, a green man, very serene. But it's just like in the pictures, the feeling of strain, of 'can't quite make it.' Almost there, but something, someone, blocks the final step. Green men, leaf tips moving in the breeze. I don't have to go to outer space for aliens. They are all around me." (from "The Creative Observer," pgs. 11-12) The 46th number in the cult-collectible series of miniature volumes published by Hanuman Books, the imprint of NYC curator-impresario Raymond Foye & the acclaimed artist Francesco Clemente; produced in Madras, India by the Kalakshetra Press. Among the many great writers, artistes & hipsters in this series, this one is our favorite as it is the sole production by William S. Burroughs, Founding Father of the Beat Generation & among the most critically influential literary & cultural figures of all time. Painting & Guns is comprised of two essays, originating as explained on copyright page: " "The Creative Observer" originated as an interview with Raymond Foye & Francesco Clemente.