GINSBERG, Allen. Reality Sandwiches. San Francisco: City Lights. 1963.
Small 4to. Original black and white wrappers; pp.[4], 7-98, [2]; wrappers slightly rubbed; spine vaguely tanned and contents a little toned; otherwise a very good copy.
First edition, first printing, from the library of Alan Ansen; an associate of the Beat Generation (a characer in Jack Kerouac's On The Road, Burrough's Naked Lunch and once W.H. Auden's secretary).
"Wake-up nightmares in Lower East Side, musing sin public library, across the U.S in dream auto, drunk in old Havana, brooding in Mayan ruins, sex daydreams on the West Coast".
Reality Sandwiches takes its title from the poem, 'On Burrough's Work', in which Ginsberg writes; "We eat Reality Sandwiches. /But alleogries are so much lettuce./ Don't hide the madness". Unusual for Ginsberg's work, the collection includes many emblems of formal poetry, even reminsicnet of the form used by William Wordsworth. The disruption of this conventional meter is likely an acknowledgement of the influence of Ginsberg's mentor, Willaim Carlos Williams, who inspired Ginsberg to abandon flamboyant "dressing" in preference of a focus on powerful, bare simplicity.
Number Eighteen in Lawrence Ferlinghetti's famous Pocket Poets Series, Reality Sandwiches was written following the scandalous Howl (1956) and the iconic Kaddish (1961), all published by this City Lights series.
SKU: 2120429
GINSBERG, Allen. Reality Sandwiches. San Francisco: City Lights. 1963.
Small 4to. Original black and white wrappers; pp.[4], 7-98, [2]; wrappers slightly rubbed; spine vaguely tanned and contents a little toned; otherwise a very good copy.
First edition, first printing, from the library of Alan Ansen; an associate of the Beat Generation (a characer in Jack Kerouac's On The Road, Burrough's Naked Lunch and once W.H. Auden's secretary).
"Wake-up nightmares in Lower East Side, musing sin public library, across the U.S in dream auto, drunk in old Havana, brooding in Mayan ruins, sex daydreams on the West Coast".
Reality Sandwiches takes its title from the poem, 'On Burrough's Work', in which Ginsberg writes; "We eat Reality Sandwiches. /But alleogries are so much lettuce./ Don't hide the madness". Unusual for Ginsberg's work, the collection includes many emblems of formal poetry, even reminsicnet of the form used by William Wordsworth. The disruption of this conventional meter is likely an acknowledgement of the influence of Ginsberg's mentor, Willaim Carlos Williams, who inspired Ginsberg to abandon flamboyant "dressing" in preference of a focus on powerful, bare simplicity.
Number Eighteen in Lawrence Ferlinghetti's famous Pocket Poets Series, Reality Sandwiches was written following the scandalous Howl (1956) and the iconic Kaddish (1961), all published by this City Lights series.
SKU: 2120429
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