A mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel.

A collection of works of a poet who as chief figure among the Beats, fomented a social and political revolution, yet his groundbreaking verse also changed the course of American poetry with its freewheeling spontaneity, rawness, honesty and energy. It features works such as Howl , Kaddish White Shroud and Cosmopolitan Greetings .

Written by a beat movement icon and visionary poet who broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse, this book presents a collection of his famous poems. It includes the apocalyptic Howl , which became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956.

Presents chronologically works such as Paterson , selections from White Shroud , Cosmopolitan Greetings , and including the poems Howl and Kaddish as well as songs, and notes by Ginsberg. This volume brings together the personal verse of an American poet.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-97) was born in Newark, New Jersey, to a poet-teacher father and Russian emigre mother. When Howl and Other Poems was impounded by San Francisco customs in 1956, the subsequent trial for obscenity catapulted Ginsberg and his publisher City Lights to national fame and helped to define the Beat Generation.

Allen Ginsberg kept journals throughout his entire life, beginning at the age of 11. The journals detail the inner thoughts of the awkward boy from New Jersey, who would become the major poet and spokesperson of the literary phenomenon called the Beat Generation. This work covers the important and formative years of Ginsberg's storied life.

Covers the important and formative years of Allen Ginsberg's storied life. This work is illustrated with photos from Ginsberg's private archive and enhanced by an appendix of over 100 of his earliest poems.

Gives not only a personal glimpse into the life of one of the great US poets, but also the story of a relationship between a father and a son. This work presents a collection of letters, written between the years 1944 and 1976. The letters that take you inside the mind of America's most influential post-war poet.

The best of poet Allen Ginsbergs correspondence with friends like Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, edited by the authors longtime literary archivist

A collection of Ginsberg's poems include meditations, songs, soliloquies, fantasies, elegies, and regional portraits of America.

A collection of letters between a father and son. Both were published poets, but from very different generations. This volume is a personal insight into a family relationship in postwar America. It is also a document of a changing country and of two men trying to find their place in it.