false<![CDATA[The Yage Letters]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619522m/63885.jpg638856<P>The Yage Letters: an early epistolary novel by William S. Burroughs, whose 1952 account of himself as Junkie, published under the pseudonym William Lee, ended "Yage may be the final fix." In letters to Allen Ginsberg, an unknown young poet in New York, his journey to the Amazon jungle is recorded, detailing picaresque incidents of search for telepathic-hallucinogenic-mind-expanding drug Yage (Ayahuasca, or Banisteriopsis Caape) used by Amazon Indian doctors for finding lost objects, mostly bodies and souls. Author and recipient of these letters met again in New York, Xmas 1953, pruned and edited the writings to form a single book. Correspondence contains first seeds of later Burroughsian fantasy in Naked Lunch. Seven years later Ginsberg in Peru writes his old guru an account of his own visions and terrors with the same drug, appealing for further counsel. Burroughs' mysterious reply is sent. The volume concludes with two epilogues: a short note from Ginsberg on his return from the Orient years later reassuring Self that he is still here on earth, and a final poetic cut-up by Burroughs, "I Am Dying Meester?"</P>62036111963The Yage Letterstotal:499|5:123|4:154|3:172|2:44|1:6|49918416742720falsefalseSun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009Thu Nov 05 20:57:26 -0800 2009Mon Nov 09 23:36:44 -0800 2009 i've never been much of a fan of burroughs' writing style, but the fact that the bulk of the book is in the form ...more...]]>
30falsefalseTue Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008Tue May 13 20:09:40 -0700 2008Tue Jul 29 20:28:07 -0700 2008 There are no real revelations here, and nothing to be learned, but as letters go, it hit the mark.
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literally.
Burroughs writing to his crush (ginsberg) re: his search for Yage. (Burroughs intentionally left out the accent in 'yage'-this synonym for ayuhasca is to be pronounced in a manner rhyming with "hay".) WSB travels paths taken by Che a year earlier, noted i...more...]]>
50falsefalseThu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009Sun Sep 27 17:03:42 -0700 2009Sun Sep 27 18:21:07 -0700 200940falsefalseSat Sep 20 14:31:16 -0700 2008Sat Sep 20 14:34:35 -0700 2008 I like the letters more than Queer, which reads as a little whiny and desperate. The letters give a great persp...more...]]>
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