William Burroughs Cabin For Sale

by Pierre Joris · September 7, 2006

Came across this on short term memory loss blog, & wondered if anyone knows if the cabin has sold. Or, more interestingly, what happened to the collection of Bourroughs’s books mentioned in the ad (I can only hope they they may have been picked up by the U of Kansas in Lawrence, or by the Naropa library).

Posted Apr 10th 2006 11:03AM by Deidre Woollard
Filed under: Estates
This may be the most inexpensive piece of celebrity real estate we have covered here on Luxist but if you are a fan of Beat Generation author William Burroughs, you can pick up his Kansas cabin on eBay. Burroughs owned this small cabin on Lone Star Lake outside of Lawrence, Kansas which has 568 square feet of living space and several decks. The main room has a working brick fireplace and the cabin has its original wood floors. There is also a dock, a small aluminum fishing boat with new motor and a paddle boat. The owners bought the cabin in 1999 and have added many features including a new electric toilet. They are including their William Burroughs book collection with the sale of the cabin. The advertised price is $159,950.

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Pierre Joris, born in Strasbourg, France in 1946, was raised in Luxembourg. Since age 18, he has moved between Europe, the Maghreb & the US & holds both Luxembourg & American citizenship. He has published over 80 books of poetry, essays, translations & anthologies — most recently Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021) & Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello, both from Contra Mundum Press. In 2020 his two final Paul Celan translations came out: Microliths They Are, Little Stones (Posthumous prose, from CMP) & The Collected Earlier Poetry (FSG). Forthcoming are: Paul Celan’s “Todesfuge” (Small Orange Import, 2023) & Diwan of Exiles: A Pierre Joris Reader (edited with Ariel Reznikoff, 2024). For a full list see the right column on this blog.

In 2011 Litteraria Pragensia, Charles University, Prague, published Pierre Joris: Cartographies of the In-between, edited by Peter Cockelbergh, with essays on Joris’ work by, among others, Mohammed Bennis, Charles Bernstein, Nicole Brossard, Clayton Eshleman, Allen Fisher, Christine Hume, Robert Kelly, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Jennifer Moxley, Jean Portante, Carrie Noland, Alice Notley, Marjorie Perloff & Nicole Peyrafitte (2011).

Other work includes the CD Routes, not Roots (with Munir Beken, oud; Mike Bisio, bass; Ben Chadabe, percussion; Mitch Elrod, guitar; Ta’wil Productions). With Jerome Rothenberg he edited Poems for the Millennium, vol. 1 & 2: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry, and with Habib. Tengour Poems for the Millennium, vol. 3: The University of California Book of North African Literature.

When not on the road, he lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, with his wife, multimedia praticienne Nicole Peyrafitte. A volume of their collaborative work, to be called Domopoetics, will be published in the near future.