Dark, ecstatic and rhapsodic, they show why Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.Īllen Ginsberg (1926-97) was an American poet, best known for the poem 'Howl' (1956), celebrating his friends of the Beat Generation and attacking what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States at the time. They include the apocalyptic 'Howl', which became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956 the moving lament for his dead mother, 'Kaddish' the searing indictment of his homeland, 'America' and the confessional 'Mescaline'. This new collection brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counterculture.
'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked'īeat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse.
Science Fiction & Fantasy - Available NowĪllen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of his finest work published in Penguin Modern Classics, including 'Howl', whose vindication at an obscenity trial was a watershed moment in twentieth-century history.Armchair Explorers for Children and Teens.
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