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AH.
London: Shaw Theatre, 1973. 5 sheets (each 20.3 sq. cm.), printed on both sides, contained in a plain white envelope with die-cut window. Design and photography by Pearce Marchbank; cover photograph by Richard Avedon.
Issued to accompany Ginsberg’s appearance at the Shaw Theatre, London, July 22, 1973: “Mantra Chanting, Blakes Songs re-tuned, Poetry 1968-73, Blues, Rags, Laments.”
Prints several mantras, two poems from “The Fall of America” (1972), the first publication of “Returning to the Country for a Brief Visit” (April 20, 1973), and a recently written text in which Ginsberg writes that the “Purpose of the evening is to present the bulk of poetics including music that I’ve practiced over the last 6 years”, and that the “audience is invited to straighten spines, relax bellies and join the chanting” (Ginsberg has explained elsewhere that ‘AH’, which he adopted as his monogram and often used it when signing books, is a Buddhist mantra meaning “appreciation of present, endless space”).
Slight creasing to envelope, o/w Near Fine.
