Poems by Allen Ginsberg along with colored reproductions of water color drawings by Francesco Clemente with a silkscreen cover, handbound in cloth with acetate dust jacket.
Ginsberg would handwrite sections of a poem on sheets of paper after which Clemente illustrated the space around the text. Ginsberg’s ‘White Shroud’ recounts a dream in which the poet discovers that his mother did not die in a mental hospital in 1957 but has been living destitute on the streets of the Bronx. The poem offers a joyful opportunity for reunion and amends, feelings that linger after awakening. True to the dream state, Clemente’s illustrations depict a fluid underworld of forms–abstracted, biomorphic, and corporeal–in various stages of commingling and dissolution.
This copy is signed by the artists.