Collected poems. 1947-1980
New York: Harper & Row, [1988]. First Perennial Library edition, thick 8vo, pp. xxi, [1], 837, [3]; original red wrappers printed in black and gilt; gnerally fine. This copy with an inscription by Ginsberg on the title page "Allen Ginsberg / St. Paul / 3/20/94 / for Terence Williams & Pat Hampl with thanks for hospitality, & sympathetic ears" with a full-page drawing by Ginsberg on the preceeding page of a terrorized face surrounded by stars, and Ginsberg's customary "AH" within a mishapen sun. Laid in a postcard invitation to a concert at the Continental Divide in New York featuring the Climax Band (Larry Rivers, Howard Brofsky and friends, imncluding Ginsberg), addressed to Hampl & Williams, signed by Ginsberg and asking "Have you heard yet from Jane [?] at Naropa. I've been talking with them a lot about the summer - hoping you can visit. Sorry to miss you." Terry Williams and Allen Ginsberg go way back. Terry was early proponent of xerox and mimeograph during his days in Lawrence, Kansas where he was employed in the Special Collections department at the University of Kansas in the early sixties. At the vanguard of the mimeograph revolution, Terry published nearly two dozen poetry broadsides and chapbooks, including those of Robert Creeley, Kirby Congdon, Ken Irby, Edward Dorn, and Allen Ginsberg. (He also published the first edition in English, and the first appearance in print of Tomas Transtromer in the Western Hemisphere, as translated by Robert Bly.) Ginsberg was introduced to Terry by Ed Sanders of the Peace Eye Book Store in Manhattan from whom Terry had been purchasing mimeos for Kansas. When Sanders and the rest of the Fugs traveled cross-country in their VW microbus, Terry and his wife gave them a place to stay for what turned out to be almost a week. Ginsberg was part of that scene, as was Robert Frank, the photographer, who was traveling with the Fugs. Ginsberg and Williams remained close for the rest of their lives. Item #62250
Price: $500.00
