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Allen Ginsberg
‘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…
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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…
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.
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…
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…
Ahmed Gad El-Rab, Faten Helmi Ahmed
A deep dive into Allen Ginsberg's rebellious poetry and its impact on American literature.
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Allen Ginsberg is the author of Howl and other Poems.
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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 (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…
Esther Cohen
BREAKFAST WITH ALLEN GINSBERG is a collection of fifty short poems, some very funny and others very personal and poignant.
Paul McDonald
A critical study of the leading poet of the Beat Generation.
Tony Trigilio
Revives questions of poetics, religious authenticity, and political efficacy in Ginsberg’s prophetic poetry. Author Tony Trigilio examines Ginsberg’s Buddhism as an imperfect but deepening influence on the major poems of…
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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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…
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 –
The Beat Generation’s best-known poet, in previously uncollected interviews, on reading and writing, poetry and politics
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…
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…
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…
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…
A selection of candid photographs by a founding member of the Beat Generation.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
Presents chronologically works such as Paterson , selections from White Shroud , Cosmopolitan Greetings , and including the poems Howl and Kaddish as well as songs, and notes by Ginsberg…
On Neruda’s Death, ‘Who Runs America?’ ‘Jaweh and Allah Battle,’ and more.
Recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Award. ‘Father Guru,’ ‘Don’t Grow Old,’ ‘Nagasaki Days,’ “Bird Brain,” and more.
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…
Collects poems selected by the author as representative of his most honest, penetrant writing, and displays a progression of political, devotional, and sexual themes.
Kraj Majales, ‘Who Be Kind to?’ ‘The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express,’ and more
Vietnam-era poems of rage and compassion. Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry.
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…
