GINSBERG, ALLEN. Heavily revised typescript of the important early poem "A Supermarket in California," n.p., n.d. [Berkeley, 1955]. 1 page, 4to, single-spaced, a working draft with extensive typed deletions (x-ings out) and changes (including the title itself) and holograph revisions in ink and pencil.The typescript begins: "What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the side streets under trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue and shopping for plenty images I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!...I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys." The poem was written, after the completion of "Howl," while sharing a cottage in Berkeley with his lover Peter Orlovsky in the fall and winter of 1955; it was one of the "other poems" in the landmark volume Howl and Other Poems (San Francisco: City Lights Books, October 1956).

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GINSBERG, ALLEN. Heavily revised typescript of the important early poem "A Supermarket in California," n.p., n.d. [Berkeley, 1955]. 1 page, 4to, single-spaced, a working draft with extensive typed deletions (x-ings out) and changes (including the title itself) and holograph revisions in ink and pencil.The typescript begins: "What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the side streets under trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue and shopping for plenty images I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!...I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys." The poem was written, after the completion of "Howl," while sharing a cottage in Berkeley with his lover Peter Orlovsky in the fall and winter of 1955; it was one of the "other poems" in the landmark volume Howl and Other Poems (San Francisco: City Lights Books, October 1956).