I. E.   /   Ilium: Express

( Slated for publication in 2024 by death of workers whilst building skyscrapers,
Lucy Wilkinson ed. / pub. )


by Al Razutis

First Draft: 1970, Vancouver
Final Draft: 1977, Tutuila Island, American Samoa

Al Razutis - American Samoa, Tutuila Island, 1977


"This sleepwalkers hallucinogenic dystopia of a place named 'Ilium' is based on my impressions and hallucinatory projections as an immigrant child walking down streets, playing in parks, observing humans turning into creatures and wildly imagining the rest in the Los Angeles of the 1950's.   While this is not a biography it contains the imprints of one."   (Al Razutis, 2021)



A sample 2022 layout proposal

click to enlarge sample layout render of I.E. by Al Razutis, graphics by Stefan Razutis

Original MANUSCRIPT PAGES FROM 'I. E.' ('Ilium: Express')

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SAMPLE (.JPG and .PDF) PAGES:

Ilium Express by Al Razutis - page one

TABLE OF CONTENTS - 'SKELETAL CONTENTS' - JPEG -- 140K   - PDF File -- 123K

PAGE ONE - '.....12:01, SUN PASSED APEX in arid white-still sky...' (Rosebloom's Delicatessen) - JPEG -- 77K   - PDF File -- 209K

PAGE THREE - 'Hey, boy...Why don't you toss 'im up here!' - JPEG -- 92K   - PDF File -- 103K

PAGE SIX - 'From counter rails, reflections cast allabout for all to see. His.' - JPEG -- 96K   - PDF File -- 100K

PAGE TEN - '.....b'tween Ilium and suborb roost...' (Dragon Street) - JPEG -- 81K   - PDF File -- 222K

PAGE FOURTEEN - 'Hey Joe, what were the score?...Yer out!' - JPEG -- 56K   - PDF File -- 61K

PAGE EIGHTEEN - 'Rowarow the boys all rearrive at Herman's rockin chair which creaks a bit.' - JPEG -- 81K   - PDF File -- 96K

PAGE TWENTY TWO - '.....by happenschance, THE LIVING LEGEND OF MISS GENIE, RETOLD...' (St. John's Fraternal Reunion) - JPEG -- 100K   - PDF File -- 105K

PAGE THIRTY - '...as over Ilium, terrarium, mirage or TWO.' - JPEG -- 63K   - PDF File -- 70K

PAGE THIRTY TWO - '"Small Profits, Quick Returns," chuckled backseat Mister Rose.' (S.P.Q.R) - JPEG -- 108K   - PDF File -- 112K

PAGE FORTY - 'She snaked in a trembling wind, pirhouetted, then began to emboss his nose in viridian lace.' - JPEG -- 63K   - PDF File -- 96K

PAGE FORTY ONE - 'Liberty torch et by the Grace of God and Madam Psychosis...' - JPEG -- 90K   - PDF File -- 105K

PAGE FORTY FIVE - '.....1:10 in aeternam, theatered and paranthetical crowd gathers...' (Deus Ex Machina)- JPEG -- 81K   - PDF File -- 86K

PAGE FIFTY-FIVE - 'Within his angle of the Westward sight...' (Quasimodo's Poem) - JPEG -- 53K   - PDF File -- 169K

PAGE FIFTY SIX - 'When suddenly the clock strikes: Opera! Erebus!' - JPEG -- 109K   - PDF File -- 113K

PAGE FIFTY SEVEN - 'LIBRETTO: Neoplat! Aglaop! The picturebook is opened, turned, the guests prepared.' - JPEG -- 87K   - PDF File -- 92K

PAGE SEVENTY SEVEN - 'Pagorsky, sitting numb, upon this day: nor breath nor eyes nor will have caused the lake a stir...' - JPEG -- 53K   - PDF File -- 58K

PAGE SEVENTY EIGHT - 'yet when the deed was done and the behemoth egg was balanced to erupt...' - JPEG -- 60K   - PDF File -- 105K

PAGE EIGHTY-THREE - '...shivers shakes hysterical tears...dragging clouds on...' - JPEG -- 104K   - PDF File -- 338K

PAGE EIGHTY FOUR - '...of this time-worn Medusan whoring sky...' - JPEG -- 45K   - PDF File -- 139K

PAGE EIGHTY FIVE - 'THE SONOFABITCH SHOT THE MAYOR TO BE!' (Walpurgisnacht)- JPEG -- 65K   - PDF File -- 70K

PAGE EIGHTY SIX - '"Ah, here's the Doc," sighs Murphy..."Sink or swim?" Hopkins matter-of-factly asks.' - JPEG -- 94K   - PDF File -- 98K

PAGE NINETY ONE - 'beaked bird moth wings flies over into waxen image of night jaws yawning claws...scream'- JPEG -- 105K     - PDF File -- 108K

PAGE NINETY TWO - 'Ane they touched Janus screaming lovdly ane bareyd theire breasts...' - JPEG -- 103K   - PDF File -- 107K



-- poems from 'Ilium: Express' prose-poem read at Intermedia Poetry Readings 1969 - 70


CONCRETE POETRY IN VRML FROM 'ILIUM: EXPRESS'

page one

VRML WORLD - 1997 - 'Fly (i)ng) f (i)s h ...' - HTML - with embeded VRML WORLD   - small 70K file size

NOTE: VRML player (plug-in) required to view the contents - link provided.





Author (Razutis) reads from manuscript page 55 'QUASIMODO'S POEM'

link to Quasimodo's Poem - Ilium: Express page 55 read by Al Razutis on YouTube


90 sec. video clip on YouTube.

VRML 2.0 code and page from manuscript

Quasimodo's Poem in VRML code and  in manuscript text form - click enlarge



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