Bixby Canyon Ocean Path Word Breeze

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1972. First Edition. [17]pp. Quarto [26 cm] Yellow illustrated wrappers. Very good. Former owner name small in ink on verso of cover. Inscribed by Ginsberg on the title page: "for Brooks Johnson from Allen Ginsberg 1977 via Arthur Ginsberg." Illustrated with black and white views throughout. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was one of the principal members of the Beat Generation in the 1950s and later an icon of the counter-culture movement in the 1960s. His poem, The Howl, is the best-known single work of the Beat Poets. He published a number of books of poetry receiving the National Book Award in 1974 for The Fall of America. Ginsberg was a practicing Buddhist who took part in numerous protests against imperialism, militarism, sexual repression, and censorship.