March 1962 - Mary 1963: Notebooks Diary Blank Pages Writing
 
Allen Ginsberg. 
 
City Lights: 1970. First edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Minor chips along the edges and corners of the jacket with one small tear on its back. Spine and inside edges are tanned. Boards have minor shelfwear on the corners and edges and there is a pencil smudge on the textblock's fore edge. 210 pages. Very good. 
 
Ginsberg took five years searching his archive for the right photos, drawings, and notebook entries to attach to his "record of self's consciousness, the old yoga of Poesy" as he searched India for splendor and enlightenment. That makes this book an immersive trip for the reader who hasn't bought a plane ticket (yet). 
 
"O What an ocean! whoever seeks 
the land of illumination: 
the lifeboat leaks"