On Ayahuasca With William Burroughs
On Ayahuasca With William Burroughs
In 1963, City Lights published The Yage Letters, the correspondence between William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, which charts, among other things, the former’s efforts to score the possibly “soul-rebooting” hallucinogenic, Ayahuasca (Yage), in Mexico and Brazil. The footage below is culled from Ayahuasca, a Burroughs-narrated documentary which I think—until someone corrects me—exists only in fragments. Even so, it’s always great to hear Burroughs’ voice. It’s up there with Werner Herzog’s!