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Television Was a Baby Crawling Towards That Death Chamber

Television Was a Baby Crawling Towards That Death Chamber

Allen Ginsberg

'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?' Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great icon of Beat poetry. ...

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Ladybird
Year of publication:
2018
ISBN:
978-0-241-33762-2
Pages:
64
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'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?' Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great icon of Beat poetry.

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