Between the Covers

Hardcover. First edition. Edited by Barry Miles. Quarto. Tiny scuff on last leaf, else fine in about fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny spots on the front panel. Nicely Inscribed by Ginsberg over two pages to fellow Beat poet Ray Bremser with drawings of a flower and a snake: "For Ray Bremser - See you in Brooklyn Monday March 16, 1987 to teach my class and read your poetry. Allen Ginsberg. New York City 777-6786. February 3, 1987." As a teenager Bremser was imprisoned in reform school for armed robbery, where he began writing jazz-inspired Beat poetry, sending it to Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Le Roi Jones, who published them in *Yugen*, and celebrated his release with a party in 1958. Despite their championship, he lived a rough life filled with excess, but never abandoned his poetry. In the process he shared an apartment with Elvin Jones, got high with John Coltrane, and inspired Bob Dylan (as per the liner notes of *Another Side of Bob Dylan*). After his death, his ashes were spread by other poets on Ginsberg's farm in Cherry Valley, New York.

Item #394997
ISBN: 0060156287