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These personal journals of the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, offer an account of the young Ginsberg's emotional life in the mid-fifties. They are humorous, indiscreet, and feature poems, drink, sex and politics.
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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.
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- PublisherViking
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0670856843
- ISBN 13 9780670856848
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