An important collection of recent poetry.

The New Modern Poetry: British and American Poetry Since World War II

Literature & Fiction

Allen GINSBERG

Sylvia Plath

Randall Jarrell

Robert Lowell

Theodore Roethke

Thomas, Kinsella

Austin, Clarke

Richard Wilbur

Robert, Duncan

TED HUGHES

Poetry

Macmillan

The interviews collected in Spontaneous Mind, chronologically arranged and in some cases previously unpublished, were conducted throughout Allen Ginsberg's long career. Always a candid and engaging subject, Ginsberg considered the interview an art form, as well as an opportunity to get his message across to many people, which, as a student of Eastern religions, he believed was his spiritual obligation. In these interviews, dating from the late 1950s to the mid-1990s, Ginsberg speaks frankly about his life, his work, and the events of his time.
Ginsberg's progressive and controversial views on politics and censorship dominate his interviews, from his conversation with the conservative William F. Buckley on PBS to his comments in the Dartmouth Review about U.S. policy in Central America to his testimony at the Chicago Seven trial. Ginsberg discusses his literary influences, including Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Walt Whitman, and William Blake, and offers insights into his own poetry, particularly his innovations in rhythm, meter, and syllable emphasis. A well-known experimenter with drugs, campaigner for their legalization, and believer in their ability to expand consciousness, Ginsberg here describes his LSD trips and his marijuana highs, and explains how they influenced the creation of "Kaddish" and other works. And he talks about his personal life with candor, revealing details of his sexual affairs with fellow Beats Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady, and his longtime relationship with Peter Orlovsky.
Provocative and illuminating, Spontaneous Mind allows us to hear once again the impassioned voice of one of the most influential literary and cultural figures of our time.

Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958-1996

Harper

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.

Howl

barry-miles

Harper-perennial

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.

Deliberate Prose

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Indian Journals: Notebooks, Diary, Blank Pages, Writings March 1962 - May 1963

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Selected Poems: 1947-1995 (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

Penguin??Books

Allen Ginsberg: collected poems 1947-80

Part of the "New Penguin Poetry" series, this volume is a collection of poems by the American poet, Allen Ginsberg.

Cosmopolitan Greetings (New Penguin Poetry)

Penguin Putnam~trade

x 116p fresh paperback, very good indeed

20th Century Death And Fame

Penguin Classic

Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays 1952-1995

Deliberate prose: selected essays 1952-1995

United States

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