"Remember your day 150 miles from London"
GINSBERG, Allen Wales- A Visitation July 29th 1967. London: Cape Goliard Press. 1968.
4to. Original publisher's brown cloth; Pictorial dust jacket with photograph of the author to front wrapper by Tom Maschler; unpaginated; general fading to cloth particularly sunning to spine; dust jacket chipped at top and head of spine, slightly watermarked to upper edge of rear dust wrapper; otherwise very good.
First limited edition, one of 200 hors commerce.
"With the cry of Blake/ and the silent thought of Wordsworth"
In the summer of 1967, the prolific American Beat poet Allen Ginsberg composed this poem, "Wales- A Visitation" whilst under the influence of LSD during his travels in the Black Mountains with the publisher Tom Maschler, with whom he was staying. The poem harbours many Romantic influences, what with Ginsberg describing the very lambs bleating out William Blake's visions.
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