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Collected Poems 1947-1980by Allen GinsbergISBN 0060914947 (0-06-091494-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Poems 1947-1980'Book summary:Tortured by the paranoia and mental illness of his immigrant mother, and by his own homosexuality in a society that was homophobic, Allen Ginsberg's early work was as much a measure of his self-loathing as his detestation of social hypocrisy and injustice. His poems reached depths of humiliation and shame that presaged a mental breakdown, followed by recovery with the help of Buddhist philosophy. Ginsberg's political commitment was fired by his involvement with Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder and others in the Beat movement, a poetry of social protest that refused perceived elitist boundaries. Despite a tendency toward propaganda, Ginsberg's best poetry is infused with satiric comedy and cheerful self-parody, and is most readily appreciated when read aloud. [via]
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Cosmopolitan Greetingsby Allen GinsbergISBN 0060926236 (0-06-092623-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cosmopolitan Greetings'Book summary:In his first collection since White Shroud in 1986, the renowned poet wittily explores his own vocation, the abuse of the environment, the casualties of capitalism, the problem of death, and the lust for life. National ad/promo. Tour. [via]
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Death & Fame: Poems 1993-1997by Allen Ginsberg , Bill Morgan, Bob Rosenthal, Peter Hale, Robert CreeleyISBN 0060930837 (0-06-093083-7)
Softcover, Perennial
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Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays, 1952-1995by Allen Ginsberg , Bill MorganISBN 0060930810 (0-06-093081-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays, 1952-1995'Book summary:Allen Ginsberg's essays, collected here for the first time, were written over the course of a long, productive, and politically engaged life. With his finger ever on the pulse of America, Ginsberg was consistently outspoken and passionate about his beliefs. Whether criticizing the American government, protesting the proliferation of nuclear weapons or the waging of war in Vietnam, or denouncing the injustice of capitalists Ginsberg gave voice to a moral conscience of the nation. His views on free speech and the drug, culture, his quest for inner peace, the creation of the Beat generation, and his innovative poetics reflect the, concerns of a postwar American culture that he helped shape.
Arranged by subject, these essays offer a fascinating counterpoint to Allen Ginsberg's poems. Hey are provocative, playful, eloquent, and of the moment. In the section titled "Politics and Prophecies," Ginsberg takes on everyone from the Federal Drug Administration to the Pentagon to the Hell's Angels. Included here are his notes on how to make march/spectacle (drawn up in 1965 when a march was planned at Berkeley to support the cause of peace in Vietnam and to protest the draft), and his thoughts on how the raging issues of the day'China, Vietnam, and the 1968 Democratic National Convetion in Chicago. In another section, "Censorship and Sex Laws," Ginsberg's pieces demonstrate the strength of his belief in the right to free speech, which leads him to defend NAMBLA (North America Man Boy Love Association), comedian Lenny Bruce, and writer William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch. Ginsberg's essays on "Writers" focus on those he particularly admired, including William Blake. Walt Whitman, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, and Robert Creely. Through a combination of literary criticism and personal reflection, Ginsberg illuminates the life and work of these artists. Also, profiled are such influential figures as jean Genet, W. H. Auden, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, Robert Frank, and Philip Glass, artists whose work and sensibility deeply affected him.
Personal as well as political, Deliberate Prose is more than a collection of essays from one of the greatest cultural figures of our time. It is also a social history of modern America that reminds us of the events and issues that preoccupied the minds of a nation in the postwar years. [via]
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Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, With Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Publby Allen Ginsberg , Barry MilesISBN 0061137456 (0-06-113745-6)
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- Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, With Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Publ: ISBN 0060926112 (0-06-092611-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public Reading, Legal Skirmishes, Precursor Texts & Bibliography: ISBN 0060156287 (0-06-015628-7)
Hardcover, Harper & Row - Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, With Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public Re: ISBN 0061137456 (0-06-113745-6)
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- Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, With Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Publ: ISBN 0060926112 (0-06-092611-2)
Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript and Variant Versionsby Allen GinsbergISBN 0060156511 (0-06-015651-1)
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Journals Mid-Fifties 1954-1958: Allen Ginsberg ; Edited by Gordon Ballby Allen Ginsberg , Gordon BallISBN 0060167718 (0-06-016771-8)
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Journals, Mid-Fifties, 1954-1958by Allen Ginsberg , Gordon BallISBN 0060926813 (0-06-092681-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journals Mid-Fifties: 1954-1958'Book summary:These revealing, personal journals of America's most influential living poet are "the essential record of the questing, wild-eyed, lustful young poet's sexual, spiritual, and literary odyssey"--Kirkus Reviews (starred) [via]
Literary History of the Beatsby Allen GinsbergISBN 0060167726 (0-06-016772-6)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Selected Poems: 1947-1995by Allen GinsbergISBN 0060933763 (0-06-093376-3)
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Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958-1996by Allen Ginsberg , Vaclav Havel, Edmund WhiteISBN 0060930829 (0-06-093082-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958-1996'Book summary:The interviews collected in Spontaneous Mind, chronologically arranged and in some cases previously unpublished, were conducted throughout Allen Ginsberg's long career. Always a candid and engaging subject, Ginsberg considered the interview an art form, as well as an opportunity to get his message across to many people, which, as a student of Eastern religions, he believed was his spiritual obligation. In these interviews, dating from the late 1950s to the mid-1990s, Ginsberg speaks frankly about his life, his work, and the events of his time.
Ginsberg's progressive and controversial views on politics and censorship dominate his interviews, from his conversation with the conservative William F. Buckley on PBS to his comments in the Dartmouth Review about U.S. policy in Central America to his testimony at the Chicago Seven trial. Ginsberg discusses his literary influences, including Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Walt Whitman, and William Blake, and offers insights into his own poetry, particularly his innovations in rhythm, meter, and syllable emphasis. A well-known experimenter with drugs, campaigner for their legalization, and believer in their ability to expand consciousness, Ginsberg here describes his LSD trips and his marijuana highs, and explains how they influenced the creation of "Kaddish" and other works. And he talks about his personal life with candor, revealing details of his sexual affairs with fellow Beats Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady, and his longtime relationship with Peter Orlovsky.
Provocative and illuminating, Spontaneous Mind allows us to hear once again the impassioned voice of one of the most influential literary and cultural figures of our time. [via]
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White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985by Allen GinsbergISBN 0060914297 (0-06-091429-7)
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- White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985: ISBN 0060960892 (0-06-096089-2)
Softcover, Harper & Row - White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985: ISBN 0060157143 (0-06-015714-3)
Hardcover, Harper & Row - White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985: ISBN 0060157151 (0-06-015715-1)
Hardcover, Harper & Row - White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985: ISBN 0060550309 (0-06-055030-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985: ISBN 0060914297 (0-06-091429-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
- White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985: ISBN 0060960892 (0-06-096089-2)
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