Claude Pélieu's "Kali Yug Express" (2012)

Dover, Delaware, US: Bottle of Smoke Press (book), 2012,
8.5" x 5.5" x 0.75", 243 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-1-973070-02-2.

Kali Yug Express, a cut-up work by Claude Pélieu, as published by Bottle of Smoke Press (Dover, Delaware, US) in 2012. This was released in three editions: 500 softcover copies [as pictured], 50 hardcover copies numbered and signed by Charles Plymell, and 10 Coquille Edition lettered copies in a custom clamshell box carrying both the softcover and hardcover variants along with a letterpress broadside by Brion Gysin. Designed and typeset by Bill Roberts.

Burroughs contributes the influence for this book, as well as a statement on Claude Pélieu within Charles Plymell's foreword, at pages 9-10: “Claude Pélieu and I have exchanged letters and manuscripts for some years. I am frequently struck by precise though seemingly coincidental references in his work to what I am writing right now writing which nobody but myself has directly seen. I feel that we are sharing a common source of literary material and a common source of thought that perhaps all serious writers are in a very real sense so united. By serious writers I mean those who have left the concept of art for art’s sake behind and see writing as a weapon with revolvers aimed voici le temps de l’assassin.”

Burroughs (and "Willy Lee") is mentioned at page 31.

This copy has stamps of Claude Pélieu and Charles Plymell affixed to the title page and is inscribed to Supervert (NYC) at the end of Plymell's foreword. This was acquired from the collection of Supervert.

In addition, an original collage on postcard with the stamp of Claude Pélieu was included when acquired.

Contents: 

• Charles Plymell: foreword
• Claude Pélieu: "Kali Yug Express":
• "A Western at the Gates of Heaven"
• "Coca Neon"
• "'In the Early Morning Rain' (for Ted Berrigan)"
• "Can I Dream away the Sky?"
• "Hot Lead in the Hedge of Stars"
• "A Computer Lost in the Electronic Heart of an English Tibet"
• "Via Satellite"
• "Tip off the 'Creep' or Eat my Lunch Captain America So Who Owns Death TV?"
• "A Neon Rose-Window Dies on the Horizon"
• "Rustic Scene in Sussex"
• "White Flowers on the Screen"
• "A Programmed Dream"
• "The Great Fuck"
• "Assassins Work Overtime"
• "Toboggan-Archive"
• "The Ship of Fools"
• "Coca Neon Kamera Sutra"
• "The Last Bullet 'In Each Scream There Is a Taste of Sky'"
• "A Drop of Sky in a Song" 
• "A Screen Right in the Sky"
• "Written and Erased in the Frisco Sky"
• "(Last Eternity Reel) Atoms and Flowers"
• "So to Get Away from the Burns under a Shower of Sparks"
• "Coca Neon Camera Sutra Fuck to the Bone!"
• "A Polaroid Rainbow"
• "The Astronauts Have Returned"
• "American Colors"
• "Word Echo"
• "The Zim Zum Landscape"
• "An Island on the Moon"
• "Spaghetti Junction"
• "The Enemy Is the Word"
• "Krishna's Crabs"
• "X it's Better than No One" 
• "Sequence 'Flash'"
• "Coca Neon"
• "Drifting"
• "Flakes of Fear"
• "The Cold Bank"
• "Entering and Leaving"