The Yage Letters Redux
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (973 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0872864480 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 180 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Allen Ginsberg is also the author of Howl and Other Poems, which was originally published by City Lights Books in the fall of 1956. Oliver Harris is a professor in Literature and Film in the School of American Studies at Keele University, he is the editor of The Letters of William S. His books include: Junky, Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, and Cities of the Red Night. Burroughs (Penguin) and the 50th anniversary definitive edition of Junky (Penguin)
"Non-fiction." according to James Robert Smith. Of all of Bill Burroughs' works, I enjoy his fictions that were closest to his life as he lived it. QUEER and JUNKY are my favorites, as they deal so honestly with the very strange world in which he moved. I realize that his cut-outs and dream-like novels are important and quite moving to many, but they just never impressed me the way his earlier books do.THE YAGE LETTERS recounts Burroughs' trip to South America to search out the legendary drug "Yage" which he hoped would enable him to grasp something like mental telepathy. Yes, it's a mad notion and this journey is certainly equally mad, as he moves freely among primi. Jim Morris said Fascinating Read. Both of these guys are literary giants. It's amazing to read them trading info on one of the great psychedelic experiences, wrapped in a lot of exotic travel. A lot of it hinges on their homosexuality, which was of no specific interest, but still provided good background on these two guys. An exciting and fascinating read.. Five Stars Kevin Jensen good stuff
When not violently poisoned by the drug, Burroughs attained wild, beautifully rendered hallucinations of the "Composite City," and his reflections on the corruption of government and the insidious spread of disease prove haunting and masterly. After a padding of manuscript history from scholar Oliver Harris (The Letters of William S. (June)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The second half of the book, dated seven years later, contains letters and poems from Ginsberg to Burroughs from the same region and, in turn, record Ginsberg's more intensely spiritual trips ("visit the moon, see the dead, see God"). All rights reserved. Burroughs), we find Burroughs writing to Ginsberg, recording his mostly harrowing, occasionally enlightening experiments with the drug, as well as his experiences picking up stray boys and eludin
Burroughs is widely recognized as one of the most influential and innovative writers of the twentieth century. From the notebooks he kept and the letters he wrote home to Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs composed a narrative of his adventures that later appeared as The Yage Letters. His books include Junky, Naked Lunch, and The Wild Boys.. For this edition, Oliver Harris has gone back to the original manuscripts and untangled the history of the text, telling the fascinating story of its genesis and cultural importance. Burroughs began an expedition into the