GINSBERG, Allen.
First Blues: Rags, Ballads & Harmonium Songs 1971-74.
New York: Full Court Press , 1975.
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"Forty five years I wanted to be a minstrel man, dictated epics in books inside a Volkswagen van": First edition of Allen Ginsberg's First Blues; one of 100 special cloth copies signed by him
First edition and signed limited edition of Ginsberg's First Blues. Octavo, original cloth. One of 100 numbered special cloth copies signed by Ginsberg on the colophon, this is number 45. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Best known for his poem "Howl" in which he denounced the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States, American poet Allen Ginsberg strongly opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression while embodying the values of 1960s counterculture with his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions. Ginsberg took part in decades of political protest against everything from the Vietnam War to the War on Drugs and, together with close friends and fellow writers William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassidy, and Jack Kerouac, established the "New Vision" of the Beat Generation.
First Blues: Rags, Ballads & Harmonium Songs 1971-74.
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