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Cometh with Clouds (Memory: Allen Ginsberg) on Open Library

Published on November 1st, 2021

Dick's memoir of Allen Ginsberg, Cometh with Clouds (Memory: Allen Ginsberg) (Cherry Valley Editions, 1982), is now available to borrow on Open Library.

It contains a foreword by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and is illustrated with photographs of McBride, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Patchen, Peter Orlovsky, William and Aram Saroyan, and Bernard Stone.

Cometh With Clouds is a deeply personal book. Likely you won’t read a more intimate book about Ginsberg. As well as stories of being with Allen in London bookstores, parties, Allen is to be found walking the streets of the little villages in Buckinghamshire where McBride had relocated from San Francisco to set up his book distribution service McBride & Broadley.

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The cover of Cometh with Clouds (Memory: Allen Ginsberg) by Dick McBride. The cover features a black and white photograph of Allen Ginsberg at a party. He is on crutches and is wearing dungarees and a white t-shirt that reads:'Indochina War Statistics: 1965 to 1973.'
Cometh with Clouds (Memory: Allen Ginsberg) (Cherry Valley Editions, 1982).

Cometh with Clouds (Memory: Allen Ginsberg) on Open Library.