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Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential cultural and literary figures of the 20th century, his face and political causes familiar to millions who had never even read his…
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Beat movement icon and visionary poet Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This volume brings together the poems that made his name as a defining figure of…
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Containing more than a hundred poems, accompanied by original photographs, and spanning from the 1940s to the 1990s, this book focuses on the sprawling oeuvre.
Stevan M. Weine
A revelatory look at how poet Allen Ginsberg transformed experiences of mental illness and madness into some of the most powerful and widely read poems of the twentieth century.
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Pat Thomas
A prolific poet, raconteur, activist, and thinker, Allen Ginsberg was also a prolific collector, meticulously saving letters, postcards, draft notes and manuscripts, photographs and snapshots, appearance bills and rally broadsheets…
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‘I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked’ Beat movement icon and visionary poet, the author broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This…
Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry
‘Wives in the avocados, babies in…
World literature classic-the one, the only, the original HOWL! Over a million copies in print around the world. The poem that made history in 1956, setting a First Amendment freedom…
Steve Finbow
A biography of Allen Ginsberg that re-examines the life, poetry and politics of this crucial poet and activist, and discusses his position in American letters and culture. It moves from…
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Allen Ginsberg is the author of Howl and other Poems.
Youth Featuring Allen Ginsberg
Iron Horse by Allen Ginsberg & Youth is a new album that re-imagines and sound tracks Ginsbergs epic spoken word poem Iron Horse. The poem is a poignant snapshot of…
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Esther Cohen
BREAKFAST WITH ALLEN GINSBERG is a collection of fifty short poems, some very funny and others very personal and poignant.
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was one of the most famous American poets of the twentieth century. Yet, his career is distinguished by not only his strong contributions to literature but also…
Alabdullah Nada
The oxford dictionary defines enlightenment as the education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge; as it becomes the journey of self-recognition. Allen Ginsberg the American poet was…
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In 1994, Rhino Records released a 4-CD boxset Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Songs & Poems 1949-1993 assembled by the late great Hal Willner that gathered together an unprecedented and definitive…
"Taken all together, Ginsberg's poems are X-rays of a considerable part of American society during the last four decades." --the New Yorker This magnificent volume gathers the published verse of…
Paul McDonald
A critical study of the leading poet of the Beat Generation.
Eliot Katz
Allen Ginsberg was one of the most politically engaged writers of his era, with a widespread social and cultural impact that was rare for a poet of his or any…
Barry Miles
Allen Ginsberg occupies a significant and enduring position in American literature. This title presents a readable account of one of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary poets.
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Featuring the legendary and groundbreaking poem Howl, this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsbergs poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews and contains sixteen pages of his personal…
A collection of essential poems, essays, letters, songs, and photographs which aims to introduce new readers to the scope of Allen Ginsberg’s work in its prolific and profound diversity –
David S Wills
Allen Ginsberg visited sixty-six countries during his lifetime. He travelled to see the world, but each time he went abroad, he came back changed. These changes built up his personality…
The Beat Generation’s best-known poet, in previously uncollected interviews, on reading and writing, poetry and politics
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for…
Jack Kerouac,Allen Ginsberg
The first collection of letters between the two leading figures of the Beat movement. Editors Morgan and Stanford shed new light on this intimate and influential friendship in this fascinating…
Michael Schumacher
With the sweep of an epic novel, Michael Schumacher tells the story of Allen Ginsberg and his times, with fascinating portraits of Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and William Burroughs, among…
A selection of candid photographs by a founding member of the Beat Generation.
This collection of poems, written and read by one of the greatest cultural and literary figures of the 20th century, includes a special 64-page booklet with the text of the…
Bob Rosenthal
Allen Ginsberg was not just a poet; he was one of the most recognizable and outspoken public figures of the late twentieth century. From the mid-fifties onward, Ginsberg was rarely…
First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg’s Howl is a prophetic masterpiecean epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obscenity charges to become one of the most widely…
Fifty years following his founding of the Beat Generation, Ginsberg has written a powerful collection of poems in which he fearlessly confronts evil–from the ravages of capitalism to the destruction…
From his conversation with the conservative William F. Buckley on PBS to his testimony at the Chicago Seven trial to his passionate riffs on Cezanne, Blake, Whitman, and Pound, the…
Recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Award. ‘Father Guru,’ ‘Don’t Grow Old,’ ‘Nagasaki Days,’ “Bird Brain,” and more.
2014 Reprint of 1956 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Howl is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1955, published as part…
Allen Ginsberg was one of the bravest and most admired poets of this century. Famous for energizing the Beat Generation literary movement upon his historic encounter with Gregory Corso, Jack…
A unique and compelling history of the Beats, in the words of the movement’s most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his lectures
Collects poems selected by the author as representative of his most honest, penetrant writing, and displays a progression of political, devotional, and sexual themes.
Howl is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1955, published as part of his 1956 collection of poetry titled Howl and Other Poems. Ginsberg began work on Howl as…
Reality Sandwiches was published in 1963. The title comes from one of the included poems, "On Burroughs' Work" "A naked lunch is natural to us, /we eat reality sandwiches."
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A collection of works of a poet who as chief figure among the Beats, fomented a social and political revolution, yet his groundbreaking verse also changed the course of American…
On Neruda’s Death, ‘Who Runs America?’ ‘Jaweh and Allah Battle,’ and more.
A deluxe hardcover commemorative facsimile edition of this groundbreaking American classic, celebrating the 40th anniversary of its publication, this is the original City Lights Howl, the prophetic masterpiece that revolutionized…
Kraj Majales, ‘Who Be Kind to?’ ‘The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express,’ and more
