POEMS PREPARED FOR A READING, CIRCA 1948 ALLEN GINSBERG. Group of 11 Autograph Manuscripts, unsigned, including 10 working drafts of poems and a page of notes. The poems, each complete except for "Poems About Eternity" and "Stanzas: Written at Night in Radio City," each with holograph title and few scattered corrections. The notes, list of poem titles, each with holograph note indicating reading duration (e.g., " 3/4 min"), the first five titles matching those of poems included in this lot. Together 12 pages, 4to, written on the rectos of separate sheets; marked toning and brittling to all edges. Np, circa 1948
The poems: "A Prophecy" [published as "A Mad Gleam"] "An Early Poem Late Revised" ["An Eastern Ballad"] "Poems About Eternity" [including "The Eye Altering Alters All," "A Very Dove," and "On Reading William Blake's 'The Sick Rose'"] "Fie My Fum" "Proem to a Book of Doldrums" "From Songs of the Nightingale" "Sonnet" "Sweet Levinsky" "A Western Ballad."
Some poems in this lot published in Ginsberg's Collected Poems, 1947-1997 (London: Penguin, 2009).
WITH--Allen Ginsberg. Four typed poems, unsigned, the first with holograph reading duration note: "Crash" "The Setting Sun" ["Ode to the Setting Sun"] "Why do ageless angels cry" "No more of this too pretty talk" [from "Stanzas: Written at Night in Radio City"]. Each 1 page, 4to. Np, circa 1948.
