Poetry Books by Allen Ginsberg
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Published Date: 1996-07
Categories: Poetry
In the tradition of William Blake, the 18th century English poet whose Illuminated Poems became a literary classic, quintessential Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and illustrator Eric Drooker have joined forces to create a book of 50 poems which span Ginsberg's creative period from 1948 to the present, enchanced by full color and black-and-white illustrations.
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published Date: 2016-02-25
Categories: Fiction
Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I'm dead. Allen Ginsberg, August 8, 1990, 3:30 A.M. Allen Ginsberg wrote incessantly for more than fifty years, and many of the poems collected for the first time in this volume were scribbled in letters or sent off to obscure publications and unjustly forgotten. Containing more than a hundred previously unpublished poems, accompanied by original photographs, and spanning from the 1940s to the 1990s, Wait Till I'm Dead is the final major contribution to Ginsberg's sprawling oeuvre, a must have for Ginsberg neophytes and long-time fans alike.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published Date: 2000-02-02
Categories: Poetry
Allen Ginsberg was one of the bravest and most admired poets of this century. Famous for energizing the Beat Generation literary movement upon his historic encounter with Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs in mid-century New York City, Ginsberg influenced several generations of writers, musicians, and poets. When he died on April 5, 1997, we lost one of the greatest figures of twentieth-century American literary and cultural history. This singular volume of final poems commemorated the anniversary of Ginsberg's death, and includes the verses he wrote in the years shortly before he died.
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published Date: 1977-09
Categories: Poetry
A collection of Ginsberg's poems include meditations, songs, soliloquies, fantasies, elegies, and regional portraits of America
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published Date: 2001-03-20
Categories: Literary Collections
Whether criticizing the American government, protesting the war in Vietnam, or denouncing capitalism, Ginsberg gave voice to the moral conscience of the nation. His personal essays on Jean Genet, Andy Warhol, Philip Glass, and others, give us compelling portraits of his fellow artists. And his views on poetry, free speech, Buddhism, and the Beats reflect the concerns of the postwar American culture he helped shape. Provocative, playful, eloquent, and of the moment, these essays offer a social history of modern America that remind us of the events and issues that preoccupied the minds of a nation -- and one of its most influential citizens -- in the postwar years.
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Published Date: 2009
Categories: Literary Collections
Spans thirty-five years of correspondence between the long-time friends and writers, from 1956 to 1991, in a volume that offers a fascinating look inside the lives of the two men, the Beat Generation, and twentieth-century American literature, accompanied by profiles of the two authors and their relationship.
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published Date: 1972-06-01
Categories: Poetry
National Book Award for Poetry, 1973 Beginning with "long poem of these States," The Fall of America continues Planet News chronicle tape-recorded scribed by hand or sung condensed, the flux of car bus airplane dream consciousness Person during Automated Electronic War years, newspaper headline radio brain auto poesy & silent desk musings, headline flashing on road through these states of consciousness. . . .
Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers
Published Date: 1990
Categories: Photography
An insider's history of the "Beat" movement and its personalities through the personal photographs of one of its principle figures. Pointing his camera randomly at the counterculture around him, the poet created a unique visual record of his friends and companions covering a period of almost forty years. His subjects include Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Robert Frank, Paul Bowles, Timothy Leary, dozens of other writers, painters, and friends, and several revealing self-portraits. Beneath each photograph are Ginsberg's handwritten reminiscences of the circumstances, people, and places relating to the photograph.
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Published Date: 2009-03-01
Categories: Literary Collections
One of the central relationships in the Beat scene was the long-lasting friendship of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Bill Morgan, Ginsberg's biographer, has selected the most significant of the 850 letters the two exchanged between 1956 and 1991. This correspondence paints the biographical and poetic portraits of two of America's most importantand most fascinatingpoets.
Publisher: Zasterl Press
Published Date: 1997
Categories: Literary Criticism
"Luminous Dreams" presents a half dozen shorter prose pieces by the late master, drawn from dreams
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published Date: 2002-05
Categories: Photography
Allen Ginsberg was a serious shutterbug who delighted in taking candid snapshots of friends and fellow writers, but up until now readers have had little chance to consider the "poetic" world of his photographs. Here in the form of twenty detachable postcards are photographs taken over the years on the poet's many travels and trips abroad. Pictures include: Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Corso in Mexico; Burroughs and Bowles in Tangier; Snyder in Japan; Whalen and Creeley in Vancouver; Ginsberg in India and Prague, and Philip Glass in Turkey. Allen Ginsberg was born in 1926 in Newark, New Jersey. In 1956 City Lights published his signal poem "Howl," one of the most widely read poems of the era. He died in 1997. Also Available from City Lights Postcards from the Underground TP $8.95, 0-87286-365-4 bu CUSA
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Published Date: 2008
Categories: American poetry
In the 'Poet to Poet' series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past whom they particularly admire. By their selection of verses and the critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the selectors offer intriguing insights into their own work.
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published Date: 2006-11
Categories: Literary Collections
Letters, press reports, excerpts from the trial transcript and decision, and other texts document the 1957 obscenity trial of San Francisco beat poet Allen Ginsburg and looks at censorship in the United States and the battle against it.
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published Date: 2015-05-26
Categories: Poetry
Visionary poet Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential cultural and literary figures of the 20th century, his face and political causes familiar to millions who had never even read his poetry. And yet he is a figure that remains little understood, especially how a troubled young man became one of the intellectual and artistic giants of the postwar era. He never published an autobiography or memoirs, believing that his body of work should suffice. The Essential Ginsberg attempts a more intimate and rounded portrait of this iconic poet by bringing together for the first time his most memorable poetry but also journals, music, photographs and letters, much of it never before published.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published Date: 1984
Categories: Literary Criticism
Gathers critical essays about Ginsberg's early works, major poems, essential themes, and public image
