Ankor Wat.

First edition of Ginsberg's brooding long poem, composed by night amid the ruined temples of Angkor in Cambodia in 1963, a hallucinatory meditation on time, empire, memory, and the self. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with black-and-white photographs of Angkor Wat by Alexandra Lawrence. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author with his red inked seal on the half-title page, "Naomi - I don't remember seeing this book at your house - thanks for the portraits you sent - Allen Ginsberg Cherry Valley N.Y. 13320, February 27, 1970, H.W. Longfellow's Birthday." The portraits Ginsberg thanks her for were photographs sent by the recipient, Naomi Siegler Savage, a highly innovative American photographer who lived and worked in Princeton, New Jersey, best known as the niece and protégée of the legendary Dada and Surrealist artist Man Ray, under whose mentorship in Hollywood she developed her signature experimental approach to the photographic medium. Influenced by Man Ray's techniques, Savage pioneered the use of the photographic metal plate, producing three-dimensional forms with metallic surfaces, and her best-known work is a magnesium mural for the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Fogg Museum at Harvard, and the International Center of Photography. In 1950 she married David Savage, a painter, sculptor, and architect, with whom she settled in Princeton for the remainder of her career. In very good condition.