Collected poems, 1947-1997 / Allen Ginsberg.
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TextPublication details: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2006.Edition: 1st edDescription: xx, 1189 p. : ill., music ; 24 cmISBN: - 0061139742 (acidfree paper)
- 9780061139741 (acid-free paper)
- Poems
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Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 811.54 G493 | Available | 33111005159013 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Taken all together, Ginsberg's poems are X-rays of a considerable part of American society during the last four decades." -- The New Yorker
This magnificent volume gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half-century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets.
A chief figure among the Beats, Ginsberg changed the course of American poetry, liberating it from closed academic forms with the creation of open, vocal, spontaneous, and energetic postmodern verse in the tradition of Whitman, Apollinaire, Hart Crane, Pound, and William Carlos Williams. Ginsberg's raw tones and attitudes of spiritual liberation also helped catalyze a psychological revolution that has become a permanent part of our cultural heritage, profoundly influencing not only poetry and popular song and speech, but also our views of the world.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Collected poems 1947-1980: Empty mirror: gates of wrath (1947-1952) -- The green automobile (1953-1954) -- Howl, before & after: San Francisco Bay area (1955-1956) -- Reality sandwiches: Europe! Europe! (1957-1959) -- Kaddish and related poems (1959-1960) -- Planet news: to Europe and Asia (1961-1963) -- King of May: America to Europe (1963-1965) -- The fall of America (1965-1971) -- Mind breaths all over the place (1972-1977) -- Plutonian ode (1977-1980) -- White shroud: poems 1980-1985 -- Cosmopolitan greetings: poems 1986-1992 -- Death & fame: poems 1993-1997.