Babel
London: Calder and Boyers, 1969. First Edition. Post 8vo : pp. [4] 5-[160] : olive boards with gold metallic lettering : dust jacket with photo montage by Carol Burns.
Minor foxing to endpapers and edges of the block: jacket lightly creased along top edge, lower cover soiled. Item #15556
Burns' fourth work, known for its radical “aleatoric” style—random yet deliberate bursts of text mimicking chaos. It lacks a traditional narrative, tossing the reader into a fragmented whirlwind of newspaper headlines, poems, snatches of talk, and anecdotes. The book rockets across settings—London, the U.S., Vietnam, even interstellar space—mixing comedy and tragedy, tenderness and brutality, reverence and blasphemy.
Price: $100.00