Name: The Yage Letters: Redux (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Author: Allen Ginsberg
ISBN: 9780141189864

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The Yage Letters: Redux (Penguin Modern Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Allen Ginsberg

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Year

2008

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780141189864

Edition No.

The Yage Letters: Redux (Penguin Modern Classics)

Allen Ginsberg (Author) · Penguin Classics · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Yage Letters: Redux (Penguin Modern Classics) "

William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called 'Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be 'the final fix'. In The Yage Letters - a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel - he journeys through South America, writing to his friend Allen Ginsberg about his experiments with the strange drug, using it to travel through time and space, to derange his senses - the perfect drug for the author of the wild decentred books that followed. Years later, Ginsberg writes back as he follows in Burroughs' footsteps, and the drug worse and more profound than he had imagined.

Allen Ginsberg

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Irwin Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was one of the most emblematic figures of American alternative culture. The publication of the poem Howl (1956) was the trigger that consolidated beat poetry and gave it a concrete form. Soul of the Beat Generation, he gathered around him Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and even the elusive William S. Burroughs, and fought tirelessly for the writing and publishing of his works. A prominent figure of the so-called "Flower Revolution" and the hippie movement of the sixties, he fought against war and racism, spread rock, chemical and mystical alteration of states of consciousness as a cultural element, and was always at the forefront of social and literary scenes, promoting libertarian ideas and notions of spirituality and authenticity, which always kept him in the crosshairs of the authorities. He traveled the world reciting his poems.

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