POINTS OF INTERSECTION: Meeting Paul Bowles, Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Robert Graves, Pauline Réage, and others

Tangier. Déya. Dieppe. Paris. Copenhagen. Chasing the fading contours of the past. Pursuing points of intersection. Encounters with aging literary figures and surviving witnesses to history. Excavating printed artifacts in the back rooms of used book shops. Locating lingering traces: a bullet hole, a logo, graffiti, items of equipment lost or discarded. Conversations with Paul Bowles & Mohammed Mrabet, Brion Gysin, "Pauline Réage," Robert Graves, Maurice Girodias, Berthe Cleyrergue, Edouard Roditi, Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky. Gregory Stephenson grew up in Colorado and Arizona, but has lived in Denmark for many years. Currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Copenhagen, he is the author of six books of literary criticism, including most recently Pilgrims to Elsewhere, also from EyeCorner Press.