BEEN DOWN SO LONG IT LOOKS LIKE UP TO ME

New York: Random House, 1966. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Good Only. Octavo. Green cloth binding over blue-gray boards with black, yellow and white arrow design to front. Rubbing soiling, some spotting to extremities. Spine lean. Reading copy of this classic mid-sixties narrative of late Beat-ish artistic culture.

Farina was a handsome folksinger-writer of Cuban-Irish descent, who paired up in life and music with Mimi (Baez) Farina, to produce several of the most lovely, and at times haunting melodies of the era. Their vocal harmonies, augmented by combination of dulcimer and guitar were, powerfully evocative, even at times transcendental. Farina was a handsome Cuban-Irish folksinger-writer who paired up in life and music with Mimi (Baez) Farina, to produce several of the most lovely, and at times haunting melodies of the era. Their vocal harmonies, augmented by combination of dulcimer and guitar were, powerfully evocative, even at times transcendental. At age 29, Farnia tragically died in a motorcycle accident two days after his book was published. At Cornell, he became close friends with Thomas Pynchon, David Shetzline and Peter Yarrow (later of Peter Paul and Mary fame). "...Pynchon, who later dedicated his book Gravity's Rainbow (1973) to Fariña, described Fariña's novel as 'coming on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch... hilarious, chilling, sexy, profound, maniacal, beautiful, and outrageous all at the same time.' "