GINSBERG, Allen Planet News San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1968
Small 4vo. Black and White card wrappers with black lettering; pp. [4] 7-144; front, back wrapper and spine faded with rubbing on spine and scuffing to top and rear; otherwise a very good edition of a first printing.
First American Edition
This collection spans seven years of Ginsberg's poetry, many composed during periods of travel across Europe, as well as Japan and India to name merely a few.
This infamously dissociative body of work encompasses and collages themes as varied and yet made parallel as "politics dissociation & messianic rhapsody" and " erotic gregariousness", ending with a final summary by Helen Vendler of The New York Times ( available on the blurb of this edition) that the collection, "closes on politics to exorcise Pentagon phantoms who cover earth with dung-coloured gas".
Number Twenty Three in the iconic series, Planet News is an exemplar of arguably the most disruptive creative voice of a generation.
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