![]() The second notable piece serves as the epilogue to the book. ![]() The story was restored to The Yage Letters in a later reprinting by City Lights. The anarchic "Roosevelt After Inauguration", a savage parody of American politics in which "a purple-assed baboon" is appointed to the United States Supreme Court, was omitted from the original edition of the book on the grounds it might be considered obscene it was subsequently issued as a chapbook later in the 1960s and was later published in the small volume Roosevelt After Inauguration and Other Atrocities with two political essays. The book ends with further correspondence written in 1960 detailing Ginsberg's experiments with yagé.īeyond the letters themselves, the book is noteworthy for two short pieces by Burroughs. Along the way, Burroughs and Ginsberg share other stories and anecdotes, including some concepts Burroughs would later use in novels such as Naked Lunch. Most of the letters date back to 1953 and chronicle Burroughs' visit to the Amazon rainforest in search of yagé ( ayahuasca), a plant with near-mythical hallucinogenic and some say telepathic qualities. ![]() The Yage Letters, first published in 1963, is a collection of correspondence and other writings by Beat Generation authors William S. ![]()
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