GINSBERG, Allen.
T.V. Baby Poem.
San Francisco: Beach Books, Texts and Documents, 1968.
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First Edition of Allen Ginsberg's T.V. Baby Poem; Inscribed by Him to Photographer Naomi Savage with an Original Drawing
First edition of Ginsberg's incantatory poem of television, empire, and American paranoia, issued in the striking form of a photographic facsimile of the poet's own working typescript, its typed lines alive with his handwritten deletions and revisions. Quarto, original printed wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author with his red inked seal on the title page, "For David and Naomi Savage - Sample of Composition - Allen Ginsberg Feb 27, 1970." The rear wrapper bears an original drawing by Ginsberg in green ink of the planet Earth ringed by sun, moon, and stars.The recipient, Naomi Siegler Savage, was a highly innovative American photographer who lived and worked in Princeton, New Jersey, best known as the niece and protégée of the legendary Dada and Surrealist artist Man Ray, under whose mentorship in Hollywood she developed her signature experimental approach to the photographic medium. Influenced by Man Ray's techniques, Savage pioneered the use of the photographic metal plate, producing three-dimensional forms with metallic surfaces, and her best-known work is a magnesium mural for the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Fogg Museum at Harvard, and the International Center of Photography. In 1950 she married David Savage, a painter, sculptor, and architect, with whom she settled in Princeton for the remainder of her career. In very good condition.
T.V. Baby is one of the apocalyptic long poems Allen Ginsberg composed in the early 1960s, a cascading vision of television, advertising, censorship, and the paranoia of Cold War America. Written in the winter of 1961, it was issued in 1968 by Beach Books, Texts and Documents in the unusual form of a photographic facsimile of Ginsberg's corrected typescript. Allen Ginsberg was an American poet, countercultural icon, and central figure of the Beat Generation. His landmark poem Howl was first performed at the Six Gallery in San Francisco on October 7, 1955, and published by City Lights Books in 1956. A student of William Blake and Walt Whitman, he was a close friend and collaborator of Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, and a tireless activist against the Vietnam War, nuclear proliferation, and the criminalization of marijuana. He received the National Book Award for The Fall of America in 1974 and was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1973.
T.V. Baby Poem.
$1,250.00
In Stock






