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. Dark, ecstatic and rhapsodic, they show why Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. This seminal work of the Beat Generation challenges societal norms and features Ginsberg's vivid descriptions of life in 1950s America. 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'. Howl and Other Poems The landmark, original publication of Allen Ginsbergs HOWL & Other Poems HOWL & Other Poems, the prophetic book that launched the. Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg is a collection of groundbreaking, politically charged, and deeply personal poems.
This new collection brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counterculture. A later printing of Ginsbergs masterpiece. '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. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ALLEN GINSBERG, WITH SUNFLOWER DRAWING.
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.
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