{"product_id":"the-yage-letters-redux-9780872864481","title":"The Yage Letters Redux","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn January 1953, William Burroughs began a seven-month expedition into the jungles of South America, ostensibly to find yage, the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. But Burroughs also cast his anthropological-satiric eye over the local regimes to record trademark vignettes of political and psychic malaise. From the notebooks he kept and the letters he wrote home to Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs composed a narrative of his adventures that appeared ten years later as \"In Search of Yage\" within \u003cem\u003eThe Yage Letters\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat book, published by City Lights in 1963, was completed by the addition of Ginsberg's account of his own experiences with yage as he traveled through South America in 1960, and by the addition of other Burroughs letters and texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor this new edition, Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has gone back to the original manuscripts to untangle the history of the text, telling the fascinating story of its genesis and cultural importance in his wide-ranging introduction. Also included in this edition are extensive materials, never before published, by both Burroughs and Ginsberg that shed new light on their adventures in exploration and writing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A complete understanding of the literary legacy of William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg is impossible without reading this amazing collection of letters and documents centered on yage, the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. . . . These crucial texts go beyond simple curiosity about mind-changing drugs to set the foundation of what would later become a literary movement that changed American literature.\"--Bloomsbury Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Burroughs' book about his search for the 'ultimate fix', \u003cem\u003eThe Yage Letters\u003c\/em\u003e, possesses an equally strange and secret history. Published in 1963 but written a decade earlier, it has long been seen as a fascinating curio in the Burroughs canon, yet a new edition of the book, edited by Oliver Harris, places it more centrally in the list of key Burroughs texts. . . . \u003cem\u003eThe Yage Letters\u003c\/em\u003e marks the point when Burroughs moved full-time into his own, fully realised universe.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe Independent UK\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Burroughs\u003c\/strong\u003e is widely recognized as one of the most influential and innovative writers of the twentieth century. His books include: \u003cem\u003eJunky\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNaked Lunch\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eQueer\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Wild Boys\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Place of Dead Roads\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOliver Harris\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor in literature and film in the School of American Studies at Keele University. He is the editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Letters of William S, Burroughs\u003c\/em\u003e (Penguin) and the 50th anniversary edition of \u003cem\u003eJunky\u003c\/em\u003e (Penguin).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e City Lights Publishers - City Lights Publishe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780872864481\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.12h x 5.64w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2006 pg. 111\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/10\/2006 pg. 43\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/27\/2007 pg. 68\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39463417446581,"sku":"9780872864481","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_4c9a4ea7-dc7b-441a-be13-aff6107ed56b.jpg?v=1615924039","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-yage-letters-redux-9780872864481","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}