William S. Burroughs is generally considered a novelist. To make the case that he was also a poet is neither revisionist nor perverse but almost near to absurd. After all, Burroughs paid about as much obeisance to genre or medium as he did to the law. His work consistently ignored the traditional boundaries between forms of creative production - to the point where, if you were really to collect Burroughs' 'poetry', you would be hard-presses to explain why you might leave out Naked Lunch. It may well be the most 'poetic' text he ever wrote. But yeah, he also really wrote some god-damn good poems, an this is the first collection ever... with all of them in one single book. We from "Uitgeverij MeerPeper" made this possible. Have yourself a good time while reading! Yours sincerely, Derrel Niemeijer.