Collected Poems 1947-1997

Name: Collected Poems 1947-1997
Author: Allen Ginsberg
ISBN: 9780141190181

by Allen Ginsberg

ISBN: 9780141190181

Published: 2009

American poetry

'Shows Ginsberg to be not only a legendary protest writer but also a lyric poet preoccupied with passion, place and fate' The New York Times 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 form 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 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 (Nostalgias)'. Ginsberg, as chief figure among the Beats, was at the centre of 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,...

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