The Yage Letters
- ISBN-10
- 0872860043
- ISBN-13
- 9780872860049
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 72
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1963-06-01
- Publisher
- City Lights Publishers
- Author
- William S. Burroughs
Description
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...
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