Clean Asshole Poems & Smiling Vegetable Songs: Poems 1957–1977
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1978. First Edition.
Octavo (6 ¼ x 5 inches; 16 x 12.5 cm). Typography and layout in the minimalist Pocket Poets style: clean sans-serif type, ample margins, and uniform cream stock. Wrappers crisp with only faint toning to edges; spine uncreased; interior clean and bright with no markings. Price $3.95 printed on rear wrapper. A remarkably well-preserved example of this fragile production.
Published as Pocket Poets Series No. 37, this was the first and only solo poetry collection by Peter Orlovsky, a central yet often shadowed figure in the Beat constellation. The poems, written between 1957 and 1977, radiate his distinctive blend of innocence, erotic frankness, and pastoral spirituality.
Issued by City Lights Books, the San Francisco press synonymous with Beat literature, this volume completes a symbolic circle begun with Ginsberg’s Howl (1956). It embodies the enduring spirit of the Pocket Poets series: poetry as raw document, unfiltered voice, and revolutionary intimacy. Store case 4.
ISBN: 0872860965
Price: $125.00