Collected poems, 1947-1997

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.

Book 2007

Here, for the first time, is a volume that gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half century of brilliant work from one of America's great poets. As the 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. Ginsberg's raw tones and attitudes of spiritual liberation also helped...

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ISBN:

9780061139758
0061139750

Edition:

First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition

Description:

xx, 1189 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes melodies with chord symbols for some of the poems
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

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

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384563

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