The Yage Letters
Burroughs, William and Ginsberg, Allen
Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1963
Soft cover. 16mo., 62pp. illustrations
An early epistolary novel by William Burroughs, which gives a 1951 account of himself as as junkie. In letters to Allen Ginsberg, an unknown young poet in New York, his journey to the Amazon jungle is recorded, detailing picaresque incidents of a search for a drug called yage.