Selected Poems 1947-1995 . - Hardcover

Ginsberg, Allen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060164573 ISBN 13: 9780060164577

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1996

Synopsis

Celebrating the seventieth birthday of the acclaimed American poet, a collection of never-before-published poems and old favorites spans Ginsberg's full career and includes some of his earliest works, signature pieces, and recent gems.

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Review:

"Brilliantly astute...Here is a poet who has earned our love."-- "Boston Globe"Taken all together, Ginsber's poems are X-rays of a considerable part of American society during the last four decades."-- "The New Yorker"The new generation reading "Selected Poems will find...that Ginsberg's force field of language still exerts a powerful imaginative pressure."-- Helen Vendler, "The New Yorker

About the Author:

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was an American poet, best known for his iconic Howl, one of the most widely read and translated poems of the century. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and won the National Book Award for The Fall of America.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0060164573
• ISBN 13: 9780060164577
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 442