First blues : rags, ballads & harmonium songs, 1971-74 / Allen Ginsberg.
"That Fall in NY Peter Orlovsky and I gave poetry reading at NYU in Greenwich Village, and improvised for an hour on the theme "Why write poetry down on paper when you have to cut down trees to make poetry books?" following a thought Gregory Corso'd writ, "No good news can be written on bad news." U...
| Uniform Title: | Jack and Susan Davis Rare Book Collection.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Full Court Press,
[1975]
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| Series: | Jack and Susan Davis Rare Book Collection.
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| Ownership and Custodial History: |
"This first edition is published in simultaneous cloth and paper bindings, with one hundred special cloth copies, numbered 1-100 and signed by the author and twelve hors commerce copies lettered A-L and signed by the author" --Added colophon. Library has copy 87, signed by the author. |
| Local Note: |
MSU: Gift of Jack and Susan Davis.
MSU: In dust jacket. |
| Physical Description: | v, 74 pages : music ; 22 cm |
| Format: | Book |
| Summary: |
"That Fall in NY Peter Orlovsky and I gave poetry reading at NYU in Greenwich Village, and improvised for an hour on the theme "Why write poetry down on paper when you have to cut down trees to make poetry books?" following a thought Gregory Corso'd writ, "No good news can be written on bad news." Unbeknownst to us Bob Dylan was in the audience, in the rear with old musician fellow-actor companion Dave Amram. Dylan phoned that night and asked, "Can you make up words like that anytime?" and came over Lower East Side apartment, picked up a guitar, played various blues chords and latin rhythms & I sat on edge of bed and tongued syllables & sentences rhymed fast as I could to "I'm going down to Puerto Rico." So Dylan pleased by this proficiency said "Why don't we go into a studio and record?" The first songs in this book are products of those sessions. -- pg. ii-iii. |
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| Call Number: | PS3513.I74 F5 |
| ISBN: | 0916190048 0916190056 (pbk.:) |