Planet News 1961-1967

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1970. 144pp. Black and white wraps. Toning to the spine. Auithor has signed and dated (1976) on the title page. "In this collection, the shorter poems, with their impressive grip on exact description, are the best, and remind us of how Ginsberg sees everything-railroads, cloverleafs, Dino Sinclair signs, "tiny human trees" in the plains, newspaper stories and their reduction of the real to the ("continued from page one") verbal, football fields, J. Edgar Hoover, and above all himself. For his contemporaries, he is the biographer of his time-its high schools, its streets, its telephones, its monsters ('television was a baby crawling toward that deathchamber"), its bland head counts, its drugs, its cops, its cities, its freeways, and most of all its short-cut language.". Signed By the Author. Second Printing. Softcover. Very Good. Small 8vo.