GINSBERG, Allen. Planet News. San Francisco: City Lights Books. 1968.
Small 4to. Black and White card wrappers with black lettering; pp. [4], 7-144; front, back wrapper but particularly spine slightly faded with evidence of foxing to front wrapper; rubbing on spine and a minial tear to bottom of spine; otherwise a very good edition of a first printing.
First edition, first printing, one of 5000 copies printed letterpress at Villiers Publications in London.
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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