Mainline to the Heart and Other Poems
Berkeley, CA: Regent Press, 2009 (1966). First Edition Thus. Softcover. Signed by Clive Matson to Illustrator, Erin Matson. Initially published in 1966, Clive Matson’s (b. 1941) “Mainline to the Heart” objectively enjoys a "Howl-ean" / Ginsberg-ian legacy of its own, as it was seized by British customs in 1968--not altogether different from the objectively similar seizures that "Howl and Other Poems" itself endured. It was eventually released in Britain --..... More
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