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Allen Ginsbergby Barry MilesISBN 0671507133 (0-671-50713-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Allen Ginsberg'Book summary:A biography of Allen Ginsberg, beat poet, war protester, homosexual activist, and Jewish intellectual. Now in his 60s, Ginsberg's poetry is enjoying a new readership. [via]
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Allen Ginsberg in Americaby Jane KramerISBN 0880641894 (0-88064-189-4)
Softcover, Fromm International Publishing Corporation
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The American Tradition in Literatureby Barbara Perkins, George B. PerkinsISBN 0072491566 (0-07-249156-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Tradition in Literature'Book summary:Widely known as the anthology that best meshes tradition with innovation, The American Tradition in Literature enters its fifth decade of leadership among textbook anthologies of American Literature. Literary merit remains the guiding principle of selection; flexibility of organization, with Walt Whitman represented in both volumes, continues to be one of the text's hallmarks. [via]
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Beat down to Your Soul : What Was the Beat Generation?by Ann ChartersISBN 0141001518 (0-14-100151-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beat down to Your Soul : What Was the Beat Generation?'Book summary:In this wide-ranging anthology, Beat scholar Ann Charters brings together more than seventy-five essays, reviews, memoirs, poems, and sketches that evoke the credos and the controversies surrounding the Beat generation writers of the 1950s. Charters includes discussions of all the major Beat figures-Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Diane di Prima, Gary Snyder, and many more-from commentaries by the Beats themselves as well as by such writers as Henry Miller, William Carlos Williams, Mary McCarthy, Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Wolfe, Grace Paley, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.. Charters also explores the humorous side of the Beat generation, its place in post-war American culture, and the contribution of the important women authors who also wrote Beat. [via]
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The Beat Generationby Jack KerouacISBN 1560257423 (1-56025-742-3)
Hardcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beat Generation'Book summary:Beat Generation is a play about tension, about friendship, and about karmawhat it is and how you get it. It begins one fine morning with a few friends, honest laborers some of them, some close to being down-and-out, passing around a bottle of wine. It ends with a kind of satori-like reaffirmation of the power of friendship, of doing good through not doing, and the intrinsic worth of the throwaway little exchanges that make up our lives.[via]
Written in 1957, the same year that On the Road was first published, and set in 1953, Beat Generation portrays an authentic and alternate 1950s America. Kerouac's characters are working-class men and womena step away from vagrants, but not a big step. Their dialogue positively sings, suggesting jazz riffs in their rhythm and content, and Kerouac, like a master composer, arranges it to magical effect. Here is the heart and soul of the beat mentality, the zeitgeist that blossomed over the decades and eventually culminated in the counter-culture of 1960s America. It's a spirit that still lives.More editions of The Beat Generation:
Collected Poems 1947-1980by Allen GinsbergISBN 1568497059 (1-56849-705-9)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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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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- Collected Poems 1947-1980: ISBN 0060914947 (0-06-091494-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Collected Poems 1947-1980: ISBN 0060153415 (0-06-015341-5)
Hardcover, Harper & Row - Collected Poems 1947-1980: ISBN 0809591324 (0-8095-9132-4)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr - Collected Poems 1947-1980: ISBN 1568497059 (1-56849-705-9)
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Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays, 1952-1995by Allen Ginsberg, Bill MorganISBN 0060930810 (0-06-093081-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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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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Dharma Lion: A Critical Biography of Allen Ginsbergby Michael SchumacherISBN 0312112637 (0-312-11263-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971by Allen GinsbergISBN 0872860639 (0-87286-063-9)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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The Gates of Wrathby Allen GinsbergISBN 0912516011 (0-912516-01-1)
Softcover, Grey Fox Pr
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Ginsberg: A Biographyby Barry MilesISBN 0753504863 (0-7535-0486-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Howl, and Other Poemsby Allen GinsbergISBN 0872860175 (0-87286-017-5)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howl, and Other Poems'Book summary:The epigraph for Howl is from Walt Whitman: "Unscrew the locks from the doors!/Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" Announcing his intentions with this ringing motto, Allen Ginsberg published a volume of poetry which broke so many social taboos that copies were impounded as obscene, and the publisher, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, was arrested. The court case that followed found for Ginsberg and his publisher, and the publicity made both the poet and the book famous. Ginsberg went on from this beginning to become a cultural icon of sixties radicalism. This works seminal place in the culture is indicated in Czeslaw Milosz's poetic tribute to Ginsberg: "Your blasphemous howl still resounds in a neon desert where the human tribe wanders, sentenced to unreality". [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 0060926112 (0-06-092611-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, With Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Publ'Book summary:Published in 1956 as the title poem of Allen Ginsberg's first collection, "Howl" is a prophetic masterpiece that overcame censorship trails to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. The annotated Howl is the poet's own re-creation of the long process of composition of a revolutionary poem that broke new ground in America poetry through its expansive poetic form, tonal range, and freshness of spirit.
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Indian Journalsby Allen GinsbergISBN 0872860183 (0-87286-018-3)
Softcover, Woodhead-Faulkner Publishers, Limited
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Indian Journals March 1962-May 1963: Notebooks Diary Blank Pages Writingsby Allen GinsbergISBN 0802134750 (0-8021-3475-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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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]
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Journals Mid-Fifties 1954-1958: Allen Ginsberg ; Edited by Gordon Ballby Allen Ginsberg, Gordon BallISBN 0060167718 (0-06-016771-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960by Allen GinsbergISBN 0872860191 (0-87286-019-1)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960'Book summary:[via]Great strange visionary poems by the author of Howl, in the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century . . .
In the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century suffering anguish of separation from my own body and its natural infinity of feeling its own self one with all self, I instinctively seeking to reconstitute that blissful union which I experience so rarely. I took it to be supernatural an gave it holy Name thus made hymn laments of longing and litanies of triumphancy of Self over mind-illusion mechano-universe of un-feeling Time in which I saw my self my own mother and my very nation trapped desolate our worlds of consciousness homeless and at war except for the original trembling of bliss in breast and belly of every body that nakedness rejected in suits of fear that familiar defenseless living hurt self which is myself same as all others abandoned scared to own unchanging desire for each other. These poems almost unconscious to confess the beatific human fact, the language intuitively chosen as in trance & dream, the rhythms rising on breath from belly thru breast, the hymn completed in tears, the movement of the physical poetry demanding and receiving decades of life while chanting Kaddish the names of Death in many worlds the self seeking the Key to life found at last in our self.
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Planet Newsby A. GinsbergISBN 1417616261 (1-4176-1626-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Planet News'Book summary:[via]Planet News collecting seven years Poesy scribed to 1967 begins with electronic politics disassociation & messianic rhapsody TV Baby in New York, continues picaresque around the globe, elan perceptions notated at Mediterranean, Galilee & Ganges till next breakthrough, comedown Poem at heart & soul last days in Asia The Change 1963; tenement doldrums & police-state paranoia in Manhattan then half year behind Socialist Curtain climaxed as Kral Majales May King Prague 1965, same years erotic gregariousness writ as Who Be Kind To for International Poetry Incarnation Albert Hall London; next trip West Coast thru center America Midwest Wichita Vortex Sutra . . . at last across Atlantic Wales Visitation promethian text recollected in emotion revised in tranquility continuing tradition of ancient Nature Language mediates between psychedelic inspiration and humane ecology & integrated acid classic Unitive Vision with democratic eyeball particulars-book closes on politics to exorcise Pentagon phantoms who cover Earth with dung-colored gas.
Poets of the Non-Existent City: Los Angeles in the McCarthy Eraby Estelle Gershgoren NovakISBN 0826329519 (0-8263-2951-9)
Hardcover, Univ of New Mexico Pr
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The Portable Beat Readerby Ann ChartersISBN 0142437530 (0-14-243753-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Beat Reader'Book summary:The Portable Beat Reader is an excellent and thorough study of the Beat Generation, compiled and edited by Ann Charters, biographer of Jack Kerouac and one of our most notable experts on Beat literature and ideas. This lively work of scholarship goes deeply into the history of the Beat movement, investigating events such as the discovery (by writer William Burroughs) of the word beat to describe this literary generation. The reader includes essays on all the major prose and poetry writers, such as Allen Ginsberg, and offers rare insight into the literary-historical context of the movement. [via]
Reality Sandwiches, 1953-1960by Allen GinsbergISBN 0872860213 (0-87286-021-3)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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Screaming with Joy : The Life of Allen Ginsbergby Graham CaveneyISBN 0767902785 (0-7679-0278-5)
Hardcover, Broadway Books
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Selected Poems: 1947-1995by Allen GinsbergISBN 0060933763 (0-06-093376-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958-1996by Allen Ginsberg, Vaclav Havel, Edmund WhiteISBN 0060930829 (0-06-093082-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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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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Timely Rain: Selected Poetry of Chogyam Trungpaby Chogyam Trungpa, David I. RomeISBN 1570621748 (1-57062-174-8)
Softcover, Shambhala Pubns
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Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitressby Debra GinsbergISBN 0060932813 (0-06-093281-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress'Book summary:In a truly just world, everyone would have to wait tables for at least six months, just to know what it's like. Failing that, we have writer-waiter Debra Ginsberg's tasty memoir to remind us about life on the other side of those swinging doors. Horror stories? After 20 years of serving other people's food, she's got 'em--and being handed a drunk's vomit-soaked napkins certainly fits the bill. But even though she expresses the usual frustrations with bad tippers and control freaks, in the long run Ginsberg is anything but bitter. In fact, she recently left her publishing job to return to waiting tables, hooked on the freedom, spare time, and ready cash the lifestyle provides. Of course, there are other perks too. Sex thrives in the close quarters and steamy atmosphere of a typical restaurant (not to mention with the high-drama personalities who work there). Fans of Kitchen Confidential will be relieved to know there's as much bad behavior among the floor staff as there is in the back of the house. As in that book, Ginsberg also relates some eyebrow-raising tales about what can happen before your food gets to your table. (The moral here: "It really does pay to be nice to your server.") But Waiting is far more than just a sexual soap opera or a cautionary guide for dining out; it's also the story of one woman's coming of age, most of which just happens to take place while she's wearing an apron. During her tenure as a waitress, Ginsberg thrives as a single mother and comes into her own as a writer--and waiting (as she suggestively calls it) helps her do both. Most of us (including waiters) think of the profession as a stopgap, not a career, but what happens on the way to somewhere else, Ginsberg writes, is every bit as important as the final destination: "Perhaps the most valuable lesson I'd learned was that the act of waiting itself is an active one. That period of time between the anticipation and the beginning of life's events is when everything really happens--the time when actual living occurs." --Mary Park [via]
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When I Was Cool: My Life At The Jack Kerouac Schoolby Sam KashnerISBN 006000567X (0-06-000567-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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