The Best Minds of My Generation
A Literary History of the Beats
$48.55
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2018
Summary
An astonishing and unique historical record of the Beat Generation, from one of its pre-eminent figures.
In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem ‘Howl’ and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation. In The Best Minds of My Generation - a compilation of lectures from the course, expertly edited by renowned Beats scholar, Bill Morgan - Ginsberg gives us the convoluted …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141399010 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141399015 |
| Author: | Allen Ginsberg, Bill Morgan |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 341g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 22mm |
| 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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