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White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985.
NY: Harper & Row, 1986. First edition. Red cloth. 90pp.
SIGNED by the author on the title page, with an additional drawing of a Blakean sunflower featuring the ‘AH’ mantra in the centre and a serpent uncoiling itself from below.
The title work, one of Ginsberg’s last major poems, describes a dream in which his mother, Naomi, appears alive and well in the Bronx.
Near Fine in dw.