Reality Sandwiches 1953-1960
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Reality Sandwiches was published in 1963. The title comes from one of the included poems, "On Burroughs' Work" "A naked lunch is natural to us, /we eat reality sandwiches."
The book is dedicated to friend and fellow Beat poet Gregory Corso and the poems represent Ginsberg at a peak period of his craft, after "Howl".
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as a winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1926, and died in New York City in 1997.
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