I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg - Hardcover

Morgan, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670037966 ISBN 13: 9780670037964

Publisher: Viking Books, 2006

Synopsis

Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Howl, an all-encompassing portrait of the influential Beat-generation poet draws on interviews with members of his inner circle as well as his journals and correspondence to discuss such topics as his political views, practice of Tibetan Buddhism, and capacity for self-expression.

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Review:

The most intimate and revealing biography of the poet to date . . . deeply delves into . . . previously unexplored territory.
"San Francisco Chronicle"
No other biographer has given us such a totally straight three-dimensional picture of Allen Ginsberg. It is unembedded reportage at its very best.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Morgans provocative and thoroughly researched new biography is a testament to the creative fruits and personal anguish of Ginsberg.
"The Washington Post"
By far the best researched and most thorough of the three major Ginsberg biographies.
"Los Angeles Times Book Review"

aThe most intimate and revealing biography of the poet to date . . . deeply delves into . . . previously unexplored territory.a
a"San Francisco Chronicle"
aNo other biographer has given us such a totally straight three-dimensional picture of Allen Ginsberg. It is unembedded reportage at its very best.a
aLawrence Ferlinghetti
aMorganas provocative and thoroughly researched new biography is a testament to the creative fruits and personal anguish of Ginsberg.a
a"The Washington Post"
aBy far the best researched and most thorough of the three major Ginsberg biographies.a
a"Los Angeles Times Book Review"

"The most intimate and revealing biography of the poet to date . . . deeply delves into . . . previously unexplored territory."
-San Francisco Chronicle

"No other biographer has given us such a totally straight three-dimensional picture of Allen Ginsberg. It is unembedded reportage at its very best."
-Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"Morgan's provocative and thoroughly researched new biography is a testament to the creative fruits and personal anguish of Ginsberg."
-The Washington Post

"By far the best researched and most thorough of the three major Ginsberg biographies."
-Los Angeles Times Book Review

About the Author:

Bill Morgan is a painter and archival consultant. He is the author of The Beat Generation in New York: A Walking Tour of Jack Kerouac’s City, The Beat Generation in San Francisco: A Literary Tour, and edited Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays of Allen Ginsberg 1952–1995. Also for October 2006 publication, he has edited Ginsberg’s The Book of Martrydom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937–1952, with Jaunita Lieberman-Plimpton, as well as Howl on Trial: the Battle for Free Expression.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0670037966
• ISBN 13: 9780670037964
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 702