The Yage Letters by Burroughs, William S, and Ginsberg, Allen - 1966

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1978. Eighth printing. Paperback. Near Fine. 72 pages; 4 7/8 x 7 1/2

City Lights, San Francisco, CA, 1988. 3rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, very light corner wear, price sticker residue on front cover, light toning.An early epistolary novel by William Burroughs, whose 1951 account of himself as as junkie, published under the pseudonym William Lee, ended "Yage may be the final fix". In letters to Allen Ginsberg his journey to the Amazon jungle is recorded, detailing picaresque incidents of a search for a telepathic-hallucinogenic-mind-expanding drug called yage (Ayahuasca, or Banisteripsis Caape), used by Amazon native doctors for finding lost objects, mostly bodies and souls. Author and recipient of these letters met again in New York, Christmas 1953, and edited the writings to form this single book. The correspondence contains the first seeds of the later Burroughsian fantasy in Naked Lunch. Seven years later Ginsberg in Peru writes his old guru an account of his own visions and terrors with the same drug, appealing for further counsel.… Read More

Brand: City Lights Publishers, 2001-01-01. First Edition. paperback. Used: Good.

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1975. 66 clean, unmarked pages. Paperback. Near Fine. 12 vo.

Brand: City Lights Publishers, 2001-01-01. First Edition. paperback. Used:Good.

City Lights Publishers, 2001-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!