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Allen Ginsberg Collected Poems 1947-1997 by Allen Ginsberg
Category: Gift | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the only volume to bring together all of Allen Ginsberg's published verse in its entirety, celebrating half a century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets. Presented chronologically, it sets Ginsberg's verse against the story of his extraordinary life: from his most famous land ...Show more
Don't Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg by William S. Burroughs; Allen Ginsberg; Steven Taylor (Editor)
Category: Biography
Two seminal figures of the Beat movement, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, discuss literary influences and personal history in a never-before-published three-day conversation following the release of the David Cronenberg film of Burroughs' classic novelNaked Lunch. The visit coincided with the s ...Show more
Howl, Kaddish And Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This new collection brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counterculture. They include the apocalyptic "Howl", which became the subject of an obscenity t ...Show more
Howl, Kaddish & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Category: Gift | Series: Popular Penguins
'The poem that defined a generation'Guardianon 'Howl' 'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked' Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This volume brings together the poems that made his n ...Show more
Howl & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg; William Carlos Williams (Introduction by)
Category: Gift | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series Book 4
Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trail at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene. ...Show more
Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber by Allen Ginsberg
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, GarcYa Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?'Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great icon of Beat poetry.
The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats by Allen Ginsberg
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A unique history of the Beats, in the words of the movement's most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his lecturesIn 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem 'Howl', Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Ge ...Show more
The Essential Ginsberg by Allen Ginsberg
Category: Gift | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Featuring the legendary and groundbreaking poem "Howl," this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsberg's poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews and contains sixteen pages of his personal photographs. One of the Beat Generation's most renowned poets and writers, Allen Gi ...Show more
Wait Till I'm Dead - Poems Uncollected by Allen Ginsberg
Category: Gift | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I'm dead. Allen Ginsberg, August 8, 1990, 3:30 AM Allen Ginsberg wrote incessantly for more than fifty years, and many of the poems collected for the first time in this volume were scribbled in letters or sent off to obscure publications ...Show more
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