The Essential Ginsberg
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- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
29 July 2015
Summary
Drawing together for the first time his poems, letters, essays, songs, and photographs, this wide-ranging collection is the essential record of the Beat icon.
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 arti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141398990 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014139899X |
| Author: | Allen Ginsberg |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 29 July 2015 |
| Weight: | 324g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was an American poet, best known for his iconic Howl, one of the most widely read and translated poems of the century, for celebrating his friends of the Beat Generation and for attacking what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States at the time. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and won the National Book Award for The Fall of America.
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