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A volume culled from the National Book Award-winning poet's entire half-century career is published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Howl and offers insight into his influence as an iconic Beat generation writer. 25,000 first printing.
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"Essential.COLLECTED POEMS.is easily the best of the bunch.Some 50 years later, Ginsberg's talent still glows on paper." -- The Post and Courier
"There's a lot to like...the current volume testifies to the poet's scope and indefatigable energy."--Chicago Sun-Times
"Ginsberg's poems are reminders that those who face a culture's disapproval can approve themselves."--The Progressive
"The COLLECTED POEMS" are the ultimate statement on Ginsberg's art."--Chicago Tribune
"If you want to read Ginsberg's poetry, you should go straight to the source. COLLECTED POEMS 1947-1997 gathers everything."--Los Angeles Times
"Taken all together, Ginsberg's poems are X-rays of a considerable part of American society during the last four decades."--The New Yorker
"The volume gathers for the first time all the published verse of...poet Ginsberg...A history...of a turbulent time."--Salt Lake City Tribune
"The mammoth new COLLECTED POEMS, 1947-1997 places Ginsberg firmly among the most prolific poets of the age."--Washington Post Book World
"Essential...COLLECTED POEMS...is easily the best of the bunch...Some 50 years later, Ginsberg's talent still glows on paper."--The Post and Courier
"Sooner or later, anyone interested in American poetry must embrace Allen Ginsberg."--Houston Chronicle
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"There's a lot to like...the current volume testifies to the poet's scope and indefatigable energy."--Chicago Sun-Times
"Ginsberg's poems are reminders that those who face a culture's disapproval can approve themselves."--The Progressive
"The COLLECTED POEMS" are the ultimate statement on Ginsberg's art."--Chicago Tribune
"If you want to read Ginsberg's poetry, you should go straight to the source. COLLECTED POEMS 1947-1997 gathers everything."--Los Angeles Times
"Taken all together, Ginsberg's poems are X-rays of a considerable part of American society during the last four decades."--The New Yorker
"The volume gathers for the first time all the published verse of...poet Ginsberg...A history...of a turbulent time."--Salt Lake City Tribune
"The mammoth new COLLECTED POEMS, 1947-1997 places Ginsberg firmly among the most prolific poets of the age."--Washington Post Book World
"Essential...COLLECTED POEMS...is easily the best of the bunch...Some 50 years later, Ginsberg's talent still glows on paper."--The Post and Courier
"Sooner or later, anyone interested in American poetry must embrace Allen Ginsberg."--Houston Chronicle
Allen Ginsberg was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as a winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1926, and died in New York City in 1997.
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- Publication date2006
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