A consummate innovator, Gysin altered the cut-up technique to produce what he called permutation poems in which a single phrase was repeated several times with the words rearranged in a different order with each reiteration. An example of this is "I don't dig work, man/Man, work I don't dig."
A master of innovation, Gysin modified the cut-up technique to create what he called permutation poems, in which a single phrase was repeated several times with the words rearranged in a different order each time. An example is "I don't dig work, man/Man, work I don't dig."