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Selected Poems :1947-1995 - Penguin Modern Classics

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Selected Poems

Selected Poems :1947-1995 - Penguin Modern Classics

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Chosen by Ginsberg himself from nearly fifty years of experimental, groundbreaking verse, this selection, in his words, ‘summarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing’, and includes lesser known and later works which go beyond his iconic Beat Generation image. Presented chronologically, and ranging from early works such as ‘Paterson’ (1949) to selections from White Shroud (1980–85) and Cosmopolitan Greetings (1986–92), and including the classic poems Howl (1955–56) and Kaddish (1959–60) as well as songs, recent uncollected poems and notes by the author, this volume brings together the most intensely personal verse of a great American poet – incandescent explorations that expand the consciousness with their breadth of vision and depth of humanity.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780141184760
ISBN10 0141184760
Number Of Pages 464
Item Weight 319 g
Product Dimensions 129 x 197 x 21 mm
Publisher / Reseller Penguin Books Ltd
Format paperback
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Brilliantly astute...Here is a poet who has earned our love. -- Boston Globe Taken all together, Ginsber's poems are X-rays of a considerable part of American society during the last four decades. -- The New Yorker The new generation reading Selected Poems will find...that Ginsberg's force field of language still exerts a powerful imaginative pressure. -- Helen Vendler, The New Yorker

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Author's Bio

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was an American poet, best known for his iconic Howl, one of the most widely read and translated poems of the century. 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, and won the National Book Award for The Fall of America.

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