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Reality sandwiches, 1953-60.

LIBRA Special PS3513.I74 R4 1963
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Pocket poets series ; no. 18.
The Pocket poets series, no. 18
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American poetry--20th century.
American poetry.
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Physical Description:
98 pages ; 16 cm.
Place of Publication:
[San Francisco] : City Lights Books; distributed by Paper Editions Corp., 1963.
Summary:
"Wake-up nightmares in Lower East Side, musings in public library, 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 ... 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."
Contents:
My Alba
Sakyamuni Coming out from the Mountain
The Green Automobile
Havana
Siesta in Xbalba
On Burroughs's Work
Love Poem on Theme by Whitman
Over Kansas
Malest Cornifici Tuo Catullo
Dream Record
Blessed by the muses
Fragment 1956
A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley
Sather Gate Illumination
Scribble
Afternoon Seattle
Psalm III
Tears
Ready to Roll
Wrote This Last Night
Squeal
American Change
Back from Europe
My Sad Self
Funny Death
Battleship Newsreel
I Beg You Come Back & Be Cheerful
To An Old Poet in Peru
Aether.
OCLC:
256687

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