A Letter from Brixton Prison
by Lewis Kruglick
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good, faded near spine and gently bumped to fore corners.
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
Massachussetts: AUGTWOFIVE, 1970. First Edition, of 500. Staplebound [octavo] in illustrated red textured wraps, unpaginated [20 pp]. Inscribed by author. Very Good, faded near spine and gently bumped to fore corners.. Scarce chapbook accounting the author's time in Brixton prison on drug charges, delivered in a hazy fugue stream of language that drifts between the cell and his rich interior (and exterior) worlds, humming the same Velvet Underground song to himself and escaping into chasing "the retinal
image of birds which nest / beyond the walls would drag them down suck the taste of / sky from their beaks". A powerful expression of the mind's turmoil and freedom while its body is locked away by men and law. Lengthy and poetic inscription to a friend who has known the author on "both sides of this moment
image of birds which nest / beyond the walls would drag them down suck the taste of / sky from their beaks". A powerful expression of the mind's turmoil and freedom while its body is locked away by men and law. Lengthy and poetic inscription to a friend who has known the author on "both sides of this moment
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 957
- Title
- A Letter from Brixton Prison
- Author
- Lewis Kruglick
- Format/Binding
- Staplebound [octavo] in illustrated red textured wraps, unpaginated [20 pp]. Inscribed by author
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good, faded near spine and gently bumped to fore corners.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, of 500
- Publisher
- AUGTWOFIVE
- Place of Publication
- Massachussetts
- Date Published
- 1970
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