Narcotica by Philip Lamantia

£185.00

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Publisher: Auerhahn Publications, San Francisco

Year: 1959

Format: Softcover, staple bound

Edition: First

Condition: Used, light foxing otherwise in very good condition

Cover design and photos (of Lamantia injecting himself with hypodermics) by multi-disciplinary/collage artist Wallace Berman.

The pamphlet contains a combination of prose by surrealist poet Lamantia and a short essay by Antoin Artaud, both making impassioned cases for the legalisation of drugs and a radical overhaul of prohibitive narcotics laws.  

'License the true addicts
Give them pure heroin and controlled habits!
Hands off marijuana!
Keep peyote free!
STOP KILLING HUMAN BEINGS WITH YR DAMNED LAWS!' (Lamantia)
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