Collected Poems: 1947-1980 (Inscribed with Postcard from China).
New York: Harper and Row, 1984. First Edition. Thick octavo. This copy INSCRIBED by Ginsberg to title page to Harper & Row publicist Dan Harvey, "with thanks for help circulating this volume from the author, readying his new White Shroud." To facing page, Ginsberg has added a mystical full-page drawing, entitled "Appearance of Diamond Sutra in the Three Worlds." Laid-in loose: a colour postcard of the Great Wall of China, with lengthy manuscript entry from Ginsberg to verso, where he summarizes his travels through the country after the other delegates from the 1984 U.S. Writer's Delegation had returned home. In addition to business matters, Ginsberg also addresses the announcement on Canton TV of Ronald Reagan's defeat of Walter Mondale; "ah well, 4 more years fake nation." Near fine copy in black boards in fine unclipped jacket.
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