The Poetry And Life Of Allen Ginsberg

Author : Lewis Hyde
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472063536
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg written by Lewis Hyde and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays and reviews that trace the changes in Ginsberg's career and in his poetry

Author : Bill Morgan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143112495
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Celebrate Myself written by Bill Morgan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-09-25 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first biography of Ginsberg since his death in 1997 and the only one to cover the entire span of his life, Ginsberg's archivist Bill Morgan draws on his deep knowledge of Ginsberg's largely unpublished private journals to give readers an unparalleled and finely detailed portrait of one of America's most famous poets. Morgan sheds new light on some of the pivotal aspects of Ginsberg's life, including the poet's associations with other members of the Beat Generation, his complex relationship with his lifelong partner, Peter Orlovsky, his involvement with Tibetan Buddhism, and above all his genius for living.

Author : Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061137456
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Howl written by Allen Ginsberg and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David Wills
Publisher : David Wills
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beatdom written by David Wills and published by David Wills. This book was released on 1985-11-04 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beatdom is a magazine for all fans of Beat Generation literature. This is the very first issue of Beatdom, containing interviews with Barry Gifford, Paul Krassner, Ken Babbs and Zane Kesey. We also have a talented group of writers and photographers, who have put together a magazine with features relating the Beat Generation to Buddhism, Bob Dylan, Hunter S Thompson and Walt Whitman; and guides to Beat books, websites and stories.

Author : Eliot Katz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993409905
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg written by Eliot Katz and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 generation. In this volume, Eliot Katz takes a readable, scholarly look at Ginsberg's most influential poems and explores the varied and inventive ways that Ginsberg turned his political ideas and perceptions into powerful poetry. While there have been some important, previous biographies and other books looking at Ginsberg's life and work, this is the first full-length volume focusing primarily on how Ginsberg's writing works as political poetry and on Ginsberg's extraordinary influence on political culture over the ensuing decades. As a longtime poet and activist himself, as well as a friend of Ginsberg's who worked with him on a number of poetry and activist endeavors, Katz brings a unique personal, political, and literary perspective to this project. This book-including its chapter on "Howl," which offers an astute and original guide to reading Ginsberg's most celebrated poem-will be of interest to students and scholars studying Ginsberg's poetry in college classrooms, as well as to general readers and writers who enjoy Ginsberg's work.

Author : Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1582342164
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Business written by Allen Ginsberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-09-07 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A touching look into the heart and family of one of America's greatest poets. As a literary portrait of a father and son, little can match the eloquence and honesty of this collection of letters, written between Allen Ginsberg and his father, Louis, spanning the years 1944 to 1976. Their correspondence is filled with affection, respect, and a healthy dose of argumentative zeal-they debate every major political and artistic issue that faced America in over three decades of extraordinary change. But the letters also tell of a strong bond of intimacy and affection between the two, revealing just how crucial that closeness was to the development of Allen Ginsberg's art.

Author : Ed Sanders
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg written by Ed Sanders and published by . This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanders leads us chronologically through history as witnessed, reflected and created by Ginsberg, introducing us to Ginsberg's friends and foes and the luminaries and common men and women alike that populated his world. Ed Sanders's poem is a journalistic biography of a man and his passionately unique world view."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Ed Sanders
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg written by Ed Sanders and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonah Raskin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520939349
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Scream written by Jonah Raskin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-04-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141394218
Total Pages : 1507 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems 1947-1997 written by Allen Ginsberg and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 1507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.