Reality Sandwiches
Ginsberg, Allen
£15.00
Reality Sandwiches
1953-60
Allen Ginsberg
The Pocket Poets Series – Number 198. Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1971. Paperback Approx 16cm H x 12.5cm W. vii, 98pp + 1 (City Lights List of Publications 1971).
Book condition: Used. Very Good. General age related discolouration to the outside; Corners & extremities a little worn. Internally, no tears, annotations, or pen markings; Ghost of pencilled number (63) to top corner of title page. All things considered, very good.
‘Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy’
“Wak-up nightmares in Lower East Side, musings in public libraries, across the U.S. in dream auto, drunk in old Havana, brooding in Mayan ruins, sex daydreams on the West Coast, airplane vision of Kansas, lonely in a leafy cottage, lunch hour in Berkeley, beery notations on Skid Row, slinking to Mexico, wrote this last nite in Paris, back on NY Times Square dreaming of Times Square, bombed in NY again, loony tunes in the dentist chair, screaming at old poets in South America, aethereal zizag Poesy in blue hotel rooms in Peru – a wind-up book of dream notes, psalms, journal enigmas & nude minutes from 1953 to 1960 poems scattered in fugitive magazines here collected now book.”