The cover shows a photo of a curandero from the Vaupes region of Colombia, reprinted by permission of the Botanical Museum of Harvard University.

The Yage Letters is a collection of correspondence and other writings by Beat Generation authors William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. It was first published in 1963 by City Lights Books.

The front cover of Anne Waldman’s Fast Speaking Woman & Other Chants, part of City Lights’ Pocket Poets series, with text set in Yagi Link Double.

Photo by Sheyla Baykal

David Jonathan Ross’s fabulous Output Sans Variable allowed me to create a strong yet nimble typographic composition for this cover.

Cover design for the 1968 edition of René Daumal’s surreal allegorical novel Mount Analogue published by City Lights Books and featuring a photograph by Casey Sonnabend & Michael Bowen.