GINSBERG, Allen.

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Planet News 1961-1967. First edition, signed limited issue, number 117 of 500 copies signed by the author and published on 4 July 1969. Planet News was number 23 in Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Pocket Poets Series and was released in the standard series wrappered binding in November 1968.The philosophical poems were written during "the most important trip of his life": Ginsberg's international travels from 1962 onwards (ANB). He travelled broadly, including visits to Morocco and Japan, and spent almost two years in India with Peter Orlovsky. Ginsberg continued to experiment with the use of psychedelic stimulants to create visionary poetry and began to utilise mediation in his search for enlightenment.

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