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The Yage letters redux / William S. Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg ; edited and with an introduction by Oliver Harris.

Title
The Yage letters redux / William S. Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg ; edited and with an introduction by Oliver Harris.
Author
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997.
Publication
San Francisco, Calif. : City Lights, 2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
  • Harris, Oliver (Oliver C. G.)
  • Harris, Oliver.
  • Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
Description
lii, 127 p.; 19 cm.
Summary
Editor's introduction -- In search of yage, 1953: William Burroughs -- Seven years later, 1960: Allen Ginsberg to William Burroughs. Burroughs' reply -- Epilogue, 1963 -- Appendices.
Subject
  • Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 > Correspondence
  • Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 > Travel > Amazon River Region
  • Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 > Travel > Amazon River Region
  • Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 > Correspondence
  • Burroughs, William S., 1914- > Correspondence
  • Ginsberg, Allen, 1926- > Correspondence
  • Ginsberg, Allen, 1926- > Travel > Amazon River Region
  • 1900-1999
  • Authors, American > 20th century > Correspondence
  • Authors, American > 20th century > Travel > Amazon River Region
  • Ayahuasca
Genre/Form
  • personal correspondence.
  • letters (correspondence)
  • Personal correspondence
  • Correspondance privée.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Editor's introduction -- In search of yage (1953). William Burroughs to Allen Ginsberg -- Seven years later (1960). Allen Ginsberg to William Burroughs ; Burroughs' reply -- Epilogue (1963). "To whom it may concern" / by Allen Ginsberg ; "I am dying, Meester?" / by William Burroughs -- Appendices. 1. From Burroughs' June 1953 "Yage" manuscript ; 2. Burroughs' letter to Ginsberg, July 9, 1953 ; 3. From Burroughs' December 1953 "Yage" manuscript ; 4. From Burroughs' January 1956 "Yagé" manuscript ; 5. From Burroughs' March 1956 "Yagé" manuscript ; 6. From Ginsberg's June 1960 South American journal.
ISBN
0872864480 (pbk.)
OCLC
65789034
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library