BURROUGHS, William & GINSBERG, Allen. The Yage Letters. San Francisco: City Lights Books. March 1968. 12mo. Softcover wraps. Fourth printing. A good to very good copy, the covers slightly marked and stained, a trifle rubbed at corners and tips, the contents clean throughout.
A collection of letters—or an epistolary novel according to the publishers—sent by Burroughs to Allen Ginsberg detailing his picaresque journey to the Amazon jungle in search for the telepathic-hallucinogenic-mind-expanding drug yage, used by Amazon doctors to, supposedly, telepathically locate bodies and their souls. It also includes various pieces that would go on to appear in Naked Lunch, though omits the riotous piece, Roosevelt After Inauguration, on account of fear of obscenity.
BURROUGHS, William & GINSBERG, Allen. The Yage Letters. San Francisco: City Lights Books. March 1968. 12mo. Softcover wraps. Fourth printing. A good to very good copy, the covers slightly marked and stained, a trifle rubbed at corners and tips, the contents clean throughout.
A collection of letters—or an epistolary novel according to the publishers—sent by Burroughs to Allen Ginsberg detailing his picaresque journey to the Amazon jungle in search for the telepathic-hallucinogenic-mind-expanding drug yage, used by Amazon doctors to, supposedly, telepathically locate bodies and their souls. It also includes various pieces that would go on to appear in Naked Lunch, though omits the riotous piece, Roosevelt After Inauguration, on account of fear of obscenity.
