Allen Ginsberg Plaintiff Spring Summer 1969 Peter Orlovsky Association Copy

Description

This issue of Plaintiff, the award-winning literary magazine of Mankato State College, contains an extensive interview with Allen Ginsberg by Todd Lawson, accompanied by photographs by Marlin Minks. Also included are poems by Ginsberg, Robert Bly, Gerald Cohen, Martin Gallagher Bane, along with fiction, photography, and essays from an emerging generation of writers.

The handwritten ownership notation is what elevates this copy. The ownership notation is in Allen Ginsberg’s characteristic hand, identifying this as Peter Orlovsky’s copy. They were lifelong companions, collaborators, and Orlovsky a fellow Beat poet of notable acclaim. It transforms an already desirable little magazine into a compelling association copy. An uncommon opportunity for collectors of Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, the Beat Generation, little magazines, counterculture history, or twentieth-century American poetry.

This is a terrific association copy that belongs in a serious Beat collection.