Ginsberg's celebrated 1956 poem brought the writing of the Beat Generation to widespread attention. In the words of a critic who was there, when Ginsberg read "Howl" aloud for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco in October of 1955, the audience knew "at the deepest level that a barrier had been broken, that a human voice and body ...
An autobiographical novel written in a confessional, pulp-fiction style, JUNKY is the story of heroin addict William Lee, who is forced to travel as a result of his drug underworld connections.
Kerouac's classic fictional tribute to Neal Cassady. Many years before its first unabridged publication, 'Visions of Cody' became an underground classic. Written by Kerouac at his creative zenith, the book is a celebration of the life of Neal Cassady, his great friend and inspiration. Appearing here as Cody Pomeray, Cassady was also immortalised ...
The only volume of collected poems to cover the entire 50-year career of the poet "responsible for loosening the breath of American poetry at mid-century" (Helen Vendler).
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 ...
These are the earliest journals and never-before-published poems of legendary Beat Generation avatar and poet extraordinaire Allen Ginsberg. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) kept journals throughout his entire life, beginning at the age of eleven. These first journals detail the inner thoughts of the awkward boy from New Jersey, who would become the ...
"National Book Award for Poetry, 1973" Beginning with "long poem of these States," The Fall of America continues Planet News chronicle tape-recorded scribed by hand or sung condensed, the flux of car bus airplane dream consciousness Person during Automated Electronic War years, newspaper headline radio brain auto poesy & silent desk musings, ...
allen ginsberg and gregory corso posing naked in tangier timothy leery and neal cassady en route to millbrook psychedelic research center on ken keseys merry prankster bus jack kerouac and william burroughs in ginsbergs new york apartment lawrence ferlinghetti and his dog whitman in san franciscos city lights bookstore these are just a few of the ...
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 ...
"Wake-up nightmares in Lower East Side, musings in public library, across the U.S. in dream auto, drunk in old Havana, brooding in Mayan ruins, sex daydreams on the West Coast, airplane vision of Kansas, lonely in a leafy cottage, lunch hour on Berkeley, beer notations on Skid Row, slinking to Mexico, wrote this last night in Paris, back on Times ...
A collection of poems by Allen Ginsberg, including the entire text of "Howl," as well as four previously unanthologized works, two previously unpublished poems, an introduction by Ginsberg, and 50 poems from 1948 through the 1990s. Fifty illustrations by Eric Drooker, known for his renderings of urban grittiness, accompany the works in the ...
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature. Allen ...
Continuing the story of the journey that he recounted in "Be Here Now", musician and holy man Bhagavan Das (a.k.a. Michael Riggs) tells how he was transformed by the ancient wisdom of the East, seduced by the worldly temptations of the West, and is now once again at peace with himself. Photos.
A deluxe hardcover commemorative facsimile edition of this groundbreaking American classic celebrates the 40th anniversary of the prophetic masterpiece that revolutionized American poetry and American consciousness.
Collecting some of the Beat figurehead's wide-ranging prose, this book includes essays on writers and musicians (Dylan, Auden, Philip Glass, Whitman, Lennon), but it also includes essays and talks on politics, on social activism, on drugs, and on culture.
Anne Waldman, a Beat poet, collects the best and most important writings of the Beat generation's literature. The book includes selections from "Mexico City Blues" by Jack Kerouac, "Naked Lunch", by William S. Burroughs, "Kaddish" by Allen Ginsberg, as well as writings by Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Diane Di Prima, Amiri Baraka, Lawrence ...
"Ginsberg has been one of the most influential poets in America in our time. . . . It has been a spectacular career, and . . . the thinking that went into making it is recorded in these Journals."--The New York Times Book Review
Notes on Ginsbergian poetics from the original source. Ginsberg explores the methods of the writers who influenced him, including Blake, Whitman, Pound, Reznikoff, and William Carlos Williams. Also contained herein are interviews, essays, journal entries and lectures.
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