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  • Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets, No. 4)

    • ASIN: 0872860175
    • ISBN: 0872860175
    • Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers

    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.Howl & Other Poems is the single most influent... [Read More]

  • The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems 1937-1952

    • ASIN: 0306814625
    • ISBN: 0306814625
    • Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) kept journals his entire life, beginning at the age of eleven. These first journals detail the inner thoughts of the awkward boy from Paterson, New Jersey, who would become the major poet and spokesperson of the literary phenomenon called the Beat Generation. The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice covers the most important an... [Read More]

  • The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats

    • ASIN: 0802126499
    • ISBN: 0802126499
    • Brand: GROVE
    • Manufacturer: Grove Press

    In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem “Howl,” and Jack Kerouac’s seminal book On the Road, Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation. Through the creation of this course, which he ended up teaching five times, first at the Naropa Institute and later at Brookl... [Read More]

  • Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

    • ASIN: 0872860191
    • ISBN: 0872860191
    • Brand: Brand: City Lights Publishers
    • Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers

    Great strange visionary poems by the author of Howl, “in the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century . . .” In the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century suffering anguish of separation from my own body and its natural infinity of feeling its own self one with all self, I instinctively seeking to reconstit... [Read More]

  • Allen Ginsberg CD Poetry Collection: Booklet and CD

    • ASIN: 0060734159
    • ISBN: 0060734159
    • Manufacturer: Caedmon

    A collection of poems by one of the greatest literary and cultural figures of the 20th centuryUpon the release of his first published work, Howl and Other Poems, in 1956, Allen Ginsberg became the unlikely force of a movement that would change a generation. Literature, art, sex, love, family, politics; nothing would ever be the same. The Beat Gener... [Read More]

  • Kaddish and Other Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition (The Pocket Series)

    • ASIN: 0872865118
    • ISBN: 0872865118
    • Brand: City Lights Books
    • Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers

    Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish," a poem about the death of his mother, Naomi, is one of his major works. This special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kaddish and Other Poems features an illuminating afterword by Ginsberg biographer Bill Morgan, along with previously unpublished photographs, documents, and letters relating to the composition of the poem... [Read More]

  • Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First ... (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

    • ASIN: 0061137456
    • ISBN: 0061137456
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    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 compositio... [Read More]

  • Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays 1952-1995

    • ASIN: 0060930810
    • ISBN: 0060930810
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    Whether criticizing the American government, protesting the war in Vietnam, or denouncing capitalism, Ginsberg gave voice to the moral conscience of the nation. His personal essays on Jean Genet, Andy Warhol, Philip Glass, and others, give us compelling portraits of his fellow artists. And his views on poetry, free speech, Buddhism, and the Beats r... [Read More]

  • Illuminated Poems

    • ASIN: 1568580452
    • ISBN: 1568580452
    • Brand: Brand: Four Walls Eight Windows
    • Manufacturer: Four Walls Eight Windows

    Street-smart, hip urban graphics accompany a collection of some fifty poems that span the poet's creative evolution from 1948 to the present, including the complete text of "Howl," as well as four never-before-anthologized works. IP.

  • Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958-1996

    • ASIN: 0060192933
    • ISBN: 9780060192938
    • Manufacturer: Harper

    The interviews collected in Spontaneous Mind, chronologically arranged and in some cases previously unpublished, were conducted throughout Allen Ginsberg's long career. Always a candid and engaging subject, Ginsberg considered the interview an art form, as well as an opportunity to get his message across to many people, which, as a student of Easte... [Read More]

  • Allen Ginsberg: Beat Poet

    • ASIN: 0753522527
    • ISBN: 0753522527
    • Brand: Virgin Books
    • Manufacturer: Virgin Books

    A new preface by the author updates this reissue of a seminal biography of the counter culture icon, by a luminary of the 1960s underground Allen Ginsberg occupies a significant and enduring position in American literature. Following Ginsberg's death in 1997, Barry Miles has drawn on both his long friendship with the poet and on Ginsberg's journal... [Read More]

  • Planet News: 1961-1967 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

    • ASIN: 0872860205
    • ISBN: 9780872860209
    • Brand: Brand: Consortium Book Sales Dist
    • Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers

    Planet News collecting seven years’ Poesy scribed to 1967 begins with electronic politics disassociation & messianic rhapsody TV Baby in New York, continues picaresque around the globe, elan perceptions notated at Mediterranean, Galilee & Ganges till next breakthrough, comedown Poem at heart & soul last days in Asia The Change 1963; tenement dold... [Read More]

  • Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties

    • ASIN: 0802133479
    • ISBN: 9780802133472
    • Brand: Brand: Grove Press
    • Manufacturer: Grove Press

    In the 1950s and early 1960s, Allen Ginsberg and his fellow Beats led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. Collected here are journal entries culed from eighteen notebooks that Ginsberg kept during this extraordinary period -- thoughts, poems, dreams, reflections, and diary notes that intimately ill... [Read More]

  • Howl: A Graphic Novel

    • ASIN: 0062015176
    • ISBN: 0062015176
    • Brand: Harper Perennial
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    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.  Now a major motion picture, starring James Franco, Howl was directed by two-time Academy Award-winners Rob Epste... [Read More]

  • Death & Fame: Last Poems 1993-1997

    • ASIN: 0060930837
    • ISBN: 0060930837
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    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 Kerouac, and William Burroughs in mid-century New York City, Ginsberg influenced several generations of writers, musicians, and poets. When he died on April 5,... [Read More]

  • Tarantula

    • ASIN: 0743230418
    • ISBN: 9780743230414
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Music legend Bob Dylan's only work of fiction—a combination of stream of consciousness prose, lyrics, and poetry that gives fans insight into one of the most influential singer-songwriters of our time.Written in 1966, Tarantula is a collection of poems and prose that evokes the turbulence of the times in wh... [Read More]

  • The Beat Book: Writings from the Beat Generation

    • ASIN: 1590304551
    • ISBN: 1590304551
    • Brand: Shambhala Publications
    • Manufacturer: Shambhala

    The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S. Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were “real architects of change. There is no doubt that we’re living in a freer America as a result of the Beat literary... [Read More]

  • The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg: A Narative Poem

    • ASIN: 1585670375
    • ISBN: 1585670375
    • Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

    Allen Ginsberg -- in many ways the avatar of the Beat Generation -- inaugurated the countercultural zeitgeist of the '50s and '60s with his brazen poetry and fluorescent persona. In this allusive, inspired narrative poem, Edward Sanders, one of the Beats' favorite sons and a Ginsberg contemporary and friend, charts a path through what he calls the ... [Read More]

  • One Hundred Frogs: From Matsuo Basho to Allen Ginsberg (Inklings)

    • ASIN: 0834803356
    • ISBN: 0834803356
    • Manufacturer: Weatherhill

    Perhaps the most famous, and certainly the most translated haiku, is Basho's poem "Old pond / Frog jumps in / The sound of water". In this book, Sato has collected some 135 translations, versions, parodies, and re-creations of "pond-frog-sound", from Lafcadio Hearn, Daisetz Suzuki, Donald Keene, Kenneth Rexroth, Edward Seidensticker, Robert Aitken ... [Read More]

  • Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression

    • ASIN: 0872864790
    • ISBN: 0872864790
    • Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers

    To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Howl and Other Poems, with nearly one million copies in print, City Lights presents the story of editing, publishing, and defending Allen Ginsberg’s landmark poem within a broader context of obscenity issues and censorship of literary works.This collection begins with an introduction by publisher Lawrence Ferl... [Read More]

  • Allen Ginsberg - Sunflower Sutra

    Allen Ginsberg reads "Howl," (Big Table Chicago Reading, 1959)

    Death to Van Gogh's Ear - Allen Ginsberg (spoken word)