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SALON INVITES YOU TO BID ON A VALUABLE COLLECTABLE FOR A WONDERFUL CAUSE
Illuminated Poems By Allen Ginsberg Copy No.201 of a 300-book run of signed editions is currently up for bid. (Copy donated by the publisher, Four Walls Eight Windows.) All proceeds will be given to the Teachers & Writers Collaborative -- a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping students, parents and teachers improve their writing skills and learn to write more imaginatively. |
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Handsomely bound in black cloth and baring a gold foil imprint on the front cover, this boxed volume of Allen Ginsberg's "Illuminated Poems" will make a wonderful addition to your library and is sure to be a conversation piece for years to come. (Allen Ginsberg's signature and a certificate of authentication appear on the flyleaf.) Ginsberg's legend defies brief discussion. In October 1955, foreshadowing a literary and social Zeitgeist, "Howl" fortified the voice of American poetry as it shocked one generation and electrified another. Allying himself with the prophetic tradition of poetry begun by William Blake and continued by Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg sought to eliminate the barrier between his poetry and his personal life. Throughout the '60s, Ginsberg developed a muscular sense of himself as activist and counterculture hero: He protested the Vietnam War, tested LSD with Timothy Leary, participated in Ken Kesey's Acid Test Festivals in San Francisco, was part of a group of Beat figures who read at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1965 -- signaling the beginning of the London underground scene -- and was a key figure at the Chicago Democratic Convention anti-war protests of 1968. "Illuminated Poems" contains "Howl," "Sunflower Sutra," "New York Blues," "America Again," "On Neal's Ashes," "Song," "Morning," and others. Other Ginsberg Titles: "Howl" (published in 1965) Reality Sandwiches (1963) |
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