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- 1956 - 1989 (Creation)
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Allen Ginsberg: photocopy of 'Sunflower Sutra' from Howl and other poems (City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1956); photocopy of poem 'Howl' from Evergreen Review 1/2 (1957) 137-147; photocopy of poem 'Siesta in Xbalba' from Reality sandwiches (City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1963); photocopy of poem 'Wichita vortex sutra' from unnamed printed source; magazine article 'The great marijuana hoax' by Ginsberg from Atlantic Nov 1966; newspaper cutting of article 'Berkeley Vietnam days' by Ginsberg from Liberation (Jan 1966), including 'How to make a march/spectacle' and 'To the Hell's Angels' (a poem), 2 copies; photocopy of article 'Reflections on the Mantra' from The Anonym Quarterly, 1968, with manuscript comment by Mottram; photocopy of poem opening 'Avalokiteshvara's many-faced towers Angkor Wat in windy night...' by Ginsberg, from Rolling Stone (23 May 1974); computer print-out headed 'Allen Ginsberg Autobiographical Precis' to 1989