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GINSBERG, Allen was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of Louis Ginsberg and Naomi Levy.
( Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish," a poem about the death of h...)
Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish," a poem about the death of his mother, Naomi, is one of his major works. This special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kaddish and Other Poems features an illuminating afterword by Ginsberg biographer Bill Morgan, along with previously unpublished photographs, documents, and letters relating to the composition of the poem. Allen Ginsberg, founding father of the Beat Generation, inspired the American counterculture of the second half of the twentieth century with his groundbreaking poems. Bill Morgan is the author of I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg. He lives in New York City and Bennington, Vermont.
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(Poems by a modern master. "Ginsberg's powerful mixture of...)
Poems by a modern master. "Ginsberg's powerful mixture of Blake, Whitman, Pound, and Williams, to which he added his own volatile, grotesque, and tender humor, has assured him a memorable place in modern poetry."-- Helen Vendler
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(In his first collection since White Shroud in 1986, the r...)
In his first collection since White Shroud in 1986, the renowned poet wittily explores his own vocation, the abuse of the environment, the casualties of capitalism, the problem of death, and the lust for life. National ad/promo. Tour.
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(McGraw - Hill. N.Y. Copyright 1974. ISBN#0070232857. 1st....)
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(Contains the poems: "Kaddish: proem, narrative, hymmnn, l...)
Contains the poems: "Kaddish: proem, narrative, hymmnn, lament, litany & fugue"; "Poem Rocket"; "Europe! Europe!"; "To Lindsay"; "Message"; "To Aunt Rose"; "At Apollinaire's Grave"; "The Lion for Real"; "Ignu"; "Death to Van Gogh's Ear!"; "Laughing Gas"; "Mescaline"; "Lysergic Acid"; "Magic Psalm"; "The Reply"; "The End".
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( National Book Award for Poetry, 1973 Beginning with "l...)
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. . . . "Ginsberg is never negligible, and he is often (the only true test) unforgettable." — Helen Vendler, New York Times Book Review Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was an influential writer and poet during the 1950's Beat Generation and is best known for his poem "Howl."
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("Empty Mirror: Early Poems" is a collection of poems writ...)
"Empty Mirror: Early Poems" is a collection of poems written by Allen Ginsberg. Contents: Psalm I Cezanne’s Ports After All, What Else Is There To Say? Fyodor The Trembling Of The Veil A Meaningless Institution Metaphysics In Society In Death, Cannot Reach What Is Most Near This Is About Death Long Live The Spiderweb Marijuana Notation A Crazy Spiritual I Have Increased Power Hymn Sunset A Ghost May Come A Desolation The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality A Poem On America The Bricklayer’s Lunch Hour The Night-Apple After Dead Souls Two Boys Went Into A Dream Diner How Come He Got Canned At The Ribbon Factory A Typical Affair An Atypical Affair The Archetype Poem Paterson The Blue Angel Gregory Corso’s Story Walking home at night, The Shrouded Stranger Einstein Books' edition of "Empty Mirror: Early Poems" contains supplementary texts: • "Howl", by Allen Ginsberg. • "Kaddish", by Allen Ginsberg. • A few selected quotes of Allen Ginsberg.
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allen ginsberg and gregory corso posing naked in tangier timothy leery and neal cassady en route to millbrook psychedelic research center on ken keseys merry prankster bus jack kerouac and william burroughs in ginsbergs new york apartment lawrence ferlinghetti and his dog whitman in san franciscos city lights bookstore these are just a few of the bizarre snapshots of enduring beat era personalities appearing in this remarkable collection by one of the beat movements most celebrated founders poet alien ginsberg spanning more than three decades from 1953 to 1988 Snapshot Poetics contains candid photographs of legendary beat writers and artists as well as their disciples including norman mailer lou reed richard avedon kathy acker willem de kooning anne waldman and russian poet yevgeny yevtuchenko all accompanied by ginsbergs quirky handwritten captions a veritable whos who of the beat era and the ongoing literary scene it engendered ginsbergs classic images re-create the movement in all its glory
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(Fascinating hardcover book that recounts the encouragemen...)
Fascinating hardcover book that recounts the encouragement Bob Dylan gave the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg to go into the studio in 1971 to record his first ever album of music. He then re-entered the studio in 1976 and 1981 and finally in 1983 he compiled all of the recordings (which featured contributions from Dylan, members of his band, and Arthur Russell, and was produced by John Hammond Sr.) onto a double LP called First Blues. This book has a preface which records an important piece of historical collaboration between this Beats icon and the Counter Culture icon, Bob Dylan, and includes the lyrics/poems and musical notations for the noted namesake album. Approximately 75 pages and 32 songs.
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(Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and H...)
Allen 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. 'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked' Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This new collection brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counterculture. 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'. Dark, ecstatic and rhapsodic, they show why Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. Allen 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. 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, won the National Book Award for The Fall of America and was a co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute, the first accredited Buddhist college in the Western world. If you enjoyed Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems, you might like Jack Kerouac's On the Road, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'The poem that defined a generation' Guardian on 'Howl' 'He avoids nothing but experiences it to the hilt' William Carlos Williams
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(Poems by a modern master. "Ginsberg's powerful mixture of...)
Poems by a modern master. "Ginsberg's powerful mixture of Blake, Whitman, Pound, and Williams, to which he added his own volatile, grotesque, and tender humor, has assured him a memorable place in modern poetry."-- Helen Vendler
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Limited to 1500 copies, 300 numbered and signed and bound in cloth Peich 9A . This copy is neither numbered nor signed. "An historic document from the Beat era, published here for the first time." Ginsberg's response to Richard Eberhart's New York Times article "West Coast Rhythms," published in the New York Times Book Review, September 1956. Etchings by Jerome Kaplan. Binding design by Robert Hauser. Editorial assistance by Deborah McCurdy. 47+ 1 pages. cloth, stamped in silver. 8vo..
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( Great strange visionary poems by the author of Howl, “i...)
Great strange visionary poems by the author of Howl, “in the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century . . .” In the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century suffering anguish of separation from my own body and its natural infinity of feeling its own self one with all self, I instinctively seeking to reconstitute that blissful union which I experience so rarely. I took it to be supernatural an gave it holy Name thus made hymn laments of longing and litanies of triumphancy of Self over mind-illusion mechano-universe of un-feeling Time in which I saw my self my own mother and my very nation trapped desolate our worlds of consciousness homeless and at war except for the original trembling of bliss in breast and belly of every body that nakedness rejected in suits of fear that familiar defenseless living hurt self which is myself same as all others abandoned scared to own unchanging desire for each other. These poems almost unconscious to confess the beatific human fact, the language intuitively chosen as in trance & dream, the rhythms rising on breath from belly thru breast, the hymn completed in tears, the movement of the physical poetry demanding and receiving decades of life while chanting Kaddish the names of Death in many worlds the self seeking the Key to life found at last in our self.
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( Plutonian Ode: Title poem combines scientific info on 2...)
Plutonian Ode: Title poem combines scientific info on 24,000-year cycle of the Great Year compared with equal half-life of Plutonium waste, accounting Homeric formula for appeasing underground millionaire Pluto Lord of Death, jack in the gnostic box of Aeons, and Adamantine Truth of ordinary mind inspiration, unhexing nuclear ministry of fear. Following poems chronologies Wyoming grass blues, a punk-rock sonnet, personal grave musing, Manhattan landscape hypertension, lovelorn heart thumps, mantric rhymes, Neruda’s tearful Lincoln ode retranslated to U.S. vernacular oratory, Nagasaki Bomb anniversary haikus, Zen Bluegrass raunch, free verse demystification of sacred fame, Reznikoffian filial epiphanies, hot pants Skeltonic doggerel, a Kerouackian New Year’s eve ditty, professional homework, New Jersey quatrains, scarecrow haiku, improvised dice roll for high school kids, English rock-and-roll sophistications, an old love glimpse, little German movies, old queen conclusions, a tender renaissance song, ode to hero-flop, Peace protest prophecies, Lower East Side snapshots, national flashed in the Buddhafields, Sapphic stanzas in quantitative idiom, look out at the bedroom window, feverish birdbrain verses from Eastern Europe for chanting with electric bands, Beethovinean ear strophes drowned in rain, a glance at Cloud Castle, poems 1977-1980 end with International new wave hit lyric Capitol Air "Plutonian Ode” has the best of intentions . . . It is perhaps the most complete package of political action from poem to protest." —Marc Olmstead, Sensitive Skin Magazine Famous Beat poet Allen Ginsberg was born June 3, 1926, the son of Naomi Ginsberg, Russian émigré, and Louis Ginsberg, lyric poet and school teacher, in Paterson, N.J. To these facts Ginsberg adds: "High school in Paterson till 17, Columbia College, merchant marine, Texas and Denver copyboy, Times Square, amigos in jail, dishwashing, book reviews, Mexico City, market research, Satori in Harlem, Yucatan and Chiapas 1954, West Coast 3 years. Later Arctic Sea trip, Tangier, Venice, Amsterdam, Paris, read at Oxford Harvard Columbia Chicago, quit, wrote "Kaddish" 1959, made tape to leave behind & fade in Orient awhile." His other famous poetry collections including The Fall of America, Howl, Mind Breaths, Plutonian Ode, and Reality Sandwiches are also published by City Lights Publishers.
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(FROM BACK COVER: "This book's a record of a series of 'Cr...)
FROM BACK COVER: "This book's a record of a series of 'Cross-country Exchanges, Talks Lectures, Rhapsodies' undertaken by Allen Ginsberg. In a tour of the United States - from Washington, D.C., through Kent State and the Midwest, to California. In a variety of settings, Ginsberg talks directly with 'Fellow Poets, Students, Scholars, Sadhus' - a vast constituency of the young and old who see in his 'mind practiced spontaneity' a realistic an d good-humored escape from the 'prison of conditioning.' For those interested in contemporary American poetry, Allen Verbatim is a valuable resource - offering Ginsberg's own views on prosody as well as rich insights into the works of other poets... In addition, Ginsberg recounts some of his early visionary and mystical experiences and explores the interrelationships of government, big business, and the military as expressed in the devastation of the environment and the international traffic in heroin..."
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( Published in 1956 as the title poem of Allen Ginsberg's...)
Published in 1956 as the title poem of Allen Ginsberg's first collection, "Howl" is a prophetic masterpiece that overcame censorship trails to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. The annotated Howl is the poet's own re-creation of the long process of composition of a revolutionary poem that broke new ground in America poetry through its expansive poetic form, tonal range, and freshness of spirit.
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( First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's Howl is a pro...)
First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's Howl is a prophetic masterpiece—an epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obscenity charges to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. This annotated version of Ginsberg's classic is the poet's own re-creation of the revolutionary work's composition process—as well as a treasure trove of anecdotes, an intimate look at the poet's writing techniques, and a veritable social history of the 1950s.
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( Meditations, rhapsodies, elegies, confessions, and mind...)
Meditations, rhapsodies, elegies, confessions, and mindful chronicle writings filling inward and outward space thru mid-Seventies decade. Mind Breaths: Australian songsticks measure oldest known poetics, broken-leg meditations march thru Six Worlds singing crazy Wisdom's hopeless suffering, the First Noble Truth, inspiring quiet Sung sunlit greybeard soliloquies, English moonlit night-gleams, ambitious mid-life fantasies, Ah crossed-legged thoughts sitting straight-spine paying attention to empty breath flowing 'round the globe;' then Dharma elegy & sharp-eyed haiku. Pederast rhapsody, exorcism of mid-East battlegods, workaday sad dust glories, American ego confession & mugging downfall Lower East Side, hospital sickness moan, hydrogen Jukebox Prophecy, Sex come-all-ye, mountain cabin flashes, Buddhist country western chord changes, Rolling Thunder snowballs, a Jersey Shaman dream, Father Death in a graveyard near Newark, Poe bones, two hot hearted love poems: Here chronicled mid Seventies' half decade inward & outward Mindfulness in many Poetries. "Allen Ginsberg's poems of the 1970's are a marvel, his new book, "Mind Breaths," presenting a half dozen poems, probably more, that are first-rate Ginsberg. . . .The poems are there-on the page, in the book. They are called "mind breaths." No need to speak of kinds, qualities, degrees, the intellect's inevitable meanderings. The poems exist. Think of all the millions of things that might have gone otherwise, so that they might not exist. Our times are bleak enough, heaven knows, but at least we have this." —Hayden Carruth, New York Times Allen Ginsberg was born June 3, 1926, the son of Naomi Ginsberg, Russian émigré, and Louis Ginsberg, lyric poet and school teacher, in Paterson, N.J. To these facts Ginsberg adds: "High school in Paterson till 17, Columbia College, merchant marine, Texas and Denver copyboy, Times Square, amigos in jail, dishwashing, book reviews, Mexico City, market research, Satori in Harlem, Yucatan and Chiapas 1954, West Coast 3 years. Later Arctic Sea trip, Tangier, Venice, Amsterdam, Paris, read at Oxford Harvard Columbia Chicago, quit, wrote "Kaddish" 1959, made tape to leave behind & fade in Orient awhile. Carl Solomon to whom "Howl" is addressed, is a intuitive Bronx dadaist and prose-poet."
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( Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages...)
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages for yr own joy.” Many of Ginsberg’s most famous poems. Wake-up nightmares in Lower East Side, musings in public library, across the U.S. in dream auto, drunk in old Havana, brooding in Mayan ruins, sex daydreams on the West Coast, airplane vision of Kansas, lonely in a leafy cottage, lunch hour on Berkeley, beer notations on Skid Row, slinking to Mexico, wrote this last night in Paris, back on Times square dreaming of Times Square, bombed in NY again, loony tunes in the dentist chair, screaming at old poets in South America, aethereal zigzag Poesy in blue hotel room in Perua wind-up book of dreams, psalms, journal enigmas & nude minutes from 1953 to 1960 poems scattered in fugitive magazines here collected now book. ". . .make no mistake, Reality Sandwiches, 1953-60 . . . is genuine poetry, and Ginsberg's commitment marks his superiority over more graceful and refined but tepid craftsmen." Robert D. Spector, Poetry Quarterly Famous Beat poet Allen Ginsberg was born June 3, 1926, the son of Naomi Ginsberg, Russian émigré, and Louis Ginsberg, lyric poet and school teacher, in Paterson, N.J. To these facts Ginsberg adds: "High school in Paterson till 17, Columbia College, merchant marine, Texas and Denver copyboy, Times Square, amigos in jail, dishwashing, book reviews, Mexico City, market research, Satori in Harlem, Yucatan and Chiapas 1954, West Coast 3 years. Later Arctic Sea trip, Tangier, Venice, Amsterdam, Paris, read at Oxford Harvard Columbia Chicago, quit, wrote "Kaddish" 1959, made tape to leave behind & fade in Orient awhile." His other famous poetry collections including The Fall of America, Howl, Mind Breaths, Plutonian Ode, Kaddish, and Reality Sandwiches are also published by City Lights Publishers.
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(An insider's history of the "Beat" movement and its perso...)
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.
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GINSBERG, Allen was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of Louis Ginsberg and Naomi Levy.
Grammar High School, Paterson, New Jersey and Columbia College.
With various cargo ships, 1945-1956; book reviewer, Newsweek, New York City, 1950; market research consultant, New York City and San Francisco, 1951-1953; instructor, U. B.C., Vancouver, Canada, 1963; co-founder, co-director, Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, 1974-1983; director emeritus, Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, from 1983; distinguished professor, Brooklyn College, 1986-1997; resident lecturer, Virginia Military Institute, 1991-1997. Founder, treasurer Committee on Poetry Foundation, 1966-1997. Organizer Gathering of the Tribes For a Human Be-In, San Francisco, 1967.
(allen ginsberg and gregory corso posing naked in tangier ...)
( National Book Award for Poetry, 1973 Beginning with "l...)
( Plutonian Ode: Title poem combines scientific info on 2...)
(Contains the poems: "Kaddish: proem, narrative, hymmnn, l...)
(Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and H...)
( First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's Howl is a pro...)
(In his first collection since White Shroud in 1986, the r...)
( Published in 1956 as the title poem of Allen Ginsberg's...)
(Fascinating hardcover book that recounts the encouragemen...)
( Here, for the first time, is a volume that gathers the ...)
( William Burroughs closed his classic novel, Junky, by s...)
(FROM BACK COVER: "This book's a record of a series of 'Cr...)
( Meditations, rhapsodies, elegies, confessions, and mind...)
("Howl" is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1955, publi...)
(An insider's history of the "Beat" movement and its perso...)
( Great strange visionary poems by the author of Howl, “i...)
( Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish," a poem about the death of h...)
(One of 6,000 copies originally published in Canada by the...)
(Edition: First Edition; Very Good/Very Good; no gift insc...)
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("Empty Mirror: Early Poems" is a collection of poems writ...)
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( Allan Ginsberg was the leading poet and conscience of t...)
( Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages...)
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(Photographs by William Webb Rust 8vo pp. 24 broch Front c...)
( In January 1953, William S. Burroughs began an expediti...)
(Poems by a modern master. "Ginsberg's powerful mixture of...)
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Gay activist. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association (vice president American chapter 1987-1988), American Institute Arts and Letters.