NORTH OF JAMAICA (AIR WITH ARMED MEN)
Edition: First US printing
New York: Harper & Row, 1972. Cloth & boards. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet recounts his youth in Jamaica. He emigrated to the US as a penniless adolescent and enrolled in Columbia. He served as a rifleman in WWII. Much about the poetry world, Allen Ginsberg, a first-hand account of the Berkeley uprisings in the 1960s, and thoughts on poetry in general. Published in the UK as AIR WITH ARMED MEN.