Collected Poems 1947-1997 (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Ginsberg, Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141190183 ISBN 13: 9780141190181

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2009

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"he wrote any number of splendid, singular poems that no other American poet of our age was capable of penning..."--San Diego Union-Tribune

About the Author:

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was an American poet, best known for the poem Howl (1956). 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, won the National Book Award for The Fall of America, and was a co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute, the first accredited Buddhist college in the Western world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0141190183
• ISBN 13: 9780141190181
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1216