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BIBLIOGRAPHY
PRIMARY SOURCES
TEXTS, SOUND RECORDINGS, AND VISUAL MATERIALS BY GINSBERG
Ginsberg, Allen. The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems: 19371952. Philadelphia: Da Capo P, 2008.
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