Poems for the Nation: A Collection of Contemporary Political Poems (Open Media Pamphlets Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1583220127 ISBN 13: 9781583220122

Publisher: Seven Stories Pr, 2000

Synopsis

Throughout the last year and a half of his life, Allen Ginsberg phoned many of his poet friends to ask if they had any social verses opposing America's rightwing drift or otherwise speaking their current political minds. This volume presents the perceptive and visionary poems that Ginsberg collected (with selections based on his notes), and also includes writings from contributors to "Planet News," an historic tribute to Allen Ginsberg that was held at New York City's St. John the Divine Cathedral in May 1998.

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About the Author

ALLEN GINSBERG (1926 1997) was the author of Howl, one of the most famous poems in American literature, and a major figure in the longstanding battle against censorship of the arts. A "founding member" of the Beat Generation along with Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, he spent many years as a poet, teacher, commentator, musician, practicing Buddhist, and American icon.

Edition details

• Publisher: Seven Stories Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1583220127
• ISBN 13: 9781583220122
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72
• Editor: Ginsberg Allen, Clausen Andy, Katz Eliot