New in our Collectible catalogue:
Allen Ginsberg – De Verandering
In 1973 Beat Generation spearhead Allen Ginsberg was a guest of the annual Poetry International Festival Rotterdam. That same year local artist Gerard Bellaart translated three poems by Ginsberg into Dutch and published them as De Verandering through his own Cold Turkey Press. At the time Cold Turkey Press had already made its mark with publications of works by Charles Bukowski, Ezra Pound, William Burroughs, Sinclair Beiles a.o. Bellaart – in the book spelled Belart – selected the three poems from Ginsberg’s anthology Planet News: 1961-1967, published by City Lights in 1968. Before that the poems Television was a Baby crawling toward that Deathchamber, The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express and Wales – a Visitation had appeared in Ed Sanders’s Fuck You/A magazine of the Arts, in other magazines or, in the case of Wales – a Visitation, as a book by Goliard Press, London. Compiled into a slim mimeographed edition of 250 copies with introductory notes by Eric Mottram and Jan Hendriks’s no-nonsense design, De Verandering is a good example of Cold Turkey Press’s straightforward and often groundbreaking output of the period.
This particular copy of the book is one of the few Hors Commerce copies, rubber stamped and handwritten ‘buiten nummering’ by Gerard Bellaart. The condition of the book is fine except for slight marks on the front cover. Read more →