Author: Lewis Hyde
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472063536
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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Essays and reviews that trace the changes in Ginsberg's career and in his poetry

Author: Allen Ginsberg
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061137456
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's Howl is a prophetic masterpiece—an epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obscenity charges to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. This annotated version of Ginsberg's classic is the poet's own re-creation of the revolutionary work's composition process—as well as a treasure trove of anecdotes, an intimate look at the poet's writing techniques, and a veritable social history of the 1950s.

Author: Allen Ginsberg
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141394218
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1507

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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 landmark works 'Howl' and 'Kaddish' to the poems of White Shroud and Cosmopolitan Greetings, and on to his later writings such as the caustically funny 'Death and Fame', the provocative 'New Democracy Wish List' and the elegiac 'Things I'll Not Do (Nostalgia)'. Ginsberg, as chief figure among the Beats, fomented a social and political revolution, yet his groundbreaking verse also changed the course of American poetry with its freewheeling spontaneity, rawness, honesty and energy. Also containing illustrations by Ginsberg's artist friends, illuminating notes to the poems, original prefaces and photographs, this is the essential record of one of the most influential voices in twentieth century poetry.

Author: Jonah Raskin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520939349
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This first full critical and historical study of Howl brilliantly elucidates the nexus of politics and literature in which it was written and gives striking new portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. Drawing from newly released psychiatric reports on Ginsberg, from interviews with his psychiatrist, Dr. Philip Hicks, and from the poet's journals, American Scream shows how Howl brought Ginsberg and the world out of the closet of a repressive society. It also gives the first full accounting of the literary figures—Eliot, Rimbaud, and Whitman—who influenced Howl, definitively placing it in the tradition of twentieth-century American poetry for the first time. As he follows the genesis and the evolution of Howl, Jonah Raskin constructs a vivid picture of a poet and an era. He illuminates the development of Beat poetry in New York and San Francisco in the 1950s--focusing on historic occasions such as the first reading of Howl at Six Gallery in San Francisco in 1955 and the obscenity trial over the poem's publication. He looks closely at Ginsberg's life, including his relationships with his parents, friends, and mentors, while he was writing the poem and uses this material to illuminate the themes of madness, nakedness, and secrecy that pervade Howl. A captivating look at the cultural climate of the Cold War and at a great American poet, American Scream finally tells the full story of Howl—a rousing manifesto for a generation and a classic of twentieth-century literature.

Author: Laura Doan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022600158X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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Discusses the history of sexuality in Britain in the first decades of the twentieth century and also the way it is studied.

Author: Allen Ginsberg
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802196888
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Allan Ginsberg was the leading poet and conscience of the Beat generation. Indian Journals collects Ginsberg’s writings from his trip to India in 1962–63.

Author: Allen Ginsberg
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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A book of Allen Ginsberg's literary conversations 1967-1977, including his encounters with Ezra Pound and an exposition of William Carlos Williams' poetic practice.

Author: Allen Ginsberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781475002584
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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"Empty Mirror: Early Poems" is a collection of poems written by Allen Ginsberg. Contents: Psalm I Cezanne's Ports After All, What Else Is There To Say? Fyodor The Trembling Of The Veil A Meaningless Institution Metaphysics In Society In Death, Cannot Reach What Is Most Near This Is About Death Long Live The Spiderweb Marijuana Notation A Crazy Spiritual I Have Increased Power Hymn Sunset A Ghost May Come A Desolation The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality A Poem On America The Bricklayer's Lunch Hour The Night-Apple After Dead Souls Two Boys Went Into A Dream Diner How Come He Got Canned At The Ribbon Factory A Typical Affair An Atypical Affair The Archetype Poem Paterson The Blue Angel Gregory Corso's Story Walking home at night, The Shrouded Stranger Einstein Books' edition of "Empty Mirror: Early Poems" contains supplementary texts: * "Howl", by Allen Ginsberg. * "Kaddish", by Allen Ginsberg. * A few selected quotes of Allen Ginsberg.

Author: Allen Ginsberg
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241337631
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 69

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'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, García 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. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Author: Allen Ginsberg
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
ISBN: 9780872860179
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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The epigraph for Howl is from Walt Whitman: "Unscrew the locks from the doors!/Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" Announcing his intentions with this ringing motto, Allen Ginsberg published a volume of poetry which broke so many social...