Allen Ginsberg PLANET NEWS City Lights 1st ed 1968

Alklen Ginsberg. PLANET NEWS 1961-1967. San Francisco: City Lights Books. Stated First American Edition - November 1968. Number 23 in the Pocket Poets series. 32vo in stiff paper wraps. 144pp.

Dedicated to Neal Cassady and containing a eulogy on the death of William Carlos Williams and a poetic address to Jack Kerouzc. This volume contains many poems written by Ginsberg during travel to Africa, India, Japan, and Europe. Some of the notable pieces include: "Television was a Baby Crawling Toward that Deathchamber", Who will take over the Universe?", "This form of Life needs Sex", "Stotras to Kali Destroyer of Illusions", "Describe: The Rain on Dasaswamedh", "Death News" (on the death of Williams), "The Change:  Kyoto-Tokyo Express", "Why is God Love, Jack?" (to Kerouac), "Kral Majales" (about being nominated The King of May), "Who Be Kind To", "First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels", "City Midnight Junk Strains", and many others.

CONDITION: Good. Binding solid. Pages clean and unmarked except for inked inscription on title page. Edgewear and yellowing to wraps. Small chip at bottom of back wrap. Original price of $2 blacked over but visible. (Note: The inscription reads"John Friedman - within this book I was Ginsburg in the mind boiling frenzy of delirium - State college - August 1970").

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