Sad Dust Glories, poems during work summer in Woods
Price: $250.00
Original Wrappers. Berkeley: The Workingmans Press, 1975. First Edition. Near Fine.
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Ginsberg on the title page: "For Ron Benham / Naropa 1977". With some hand-written corrections by Ginsberg to the subtitle: poems "^written" during work summer "1974" in "Sierra" woods. Publisher's gray-green wrappers, with a photo of Ginsberg by Paula Farley to front wrapper, lettered in black. About fine, with light toning to wrapper edges. Overall, a great copy. Sad Dust Glories is a collection of poems by Ginsberg inspired by the traveling and manual labor he performed out west in the summer of 1974. Divided into three sections, the book contains poems like "Green Notebook," "Energy Vampire," "The Moon Followed by Jupiter Thru Pinetrees," "To the Dead," and "For Sale." Also in the summer of 1974, Ginsberg and poet Anne Waldman co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute in Colorado, described on the school's website as "a radically alternative literary space rooted in contemplative practice and experimental poetics." Item #AG025
