Best Selling Books by Allen Ginsberg

Half a century after "founding" the Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg has written this powerful collection of poems that are suffused with a range of emotional colors that gives Ginsberg''s work an elegiac tone.

Transcript of speech delivered May 1, 1970 at Yale University, on behalf of the Black Panther Party and its then-jailed founder Bobby Seale.

''Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, García Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?'' Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great icon of Beat poetry. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York''s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

In the tradition of William Blake, the 18th century English poet whose Illuminated Poems became a literary classic, quintessential Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and illustrator Eric Drooker have joined forces to create a book of 50 poems which span Ginsberg''s creative period from 1948 to the present, enchanced by full color and black-and-white illustrations.

Allen Ginsberg a trente ans à peine lorsque paraît Howl, long cri de rage, d’amour, de désir et de détresse. Nous sommes en 1956, dans une Amérique encore corsetée par les valeurs puritaines, et ce texte incendiaire va attirer à son jeune auteur les foudres de la censure et de la justice ; mais il va aussi l’imposer du jour au lendemain comme l’un des plus grands poètes de son temps. Par sa puissance incantatoire, sa charge politique, son lyrisme jazz et son audace formelle, Howl donne le coup d’envoi d’une véritable révolution littéraire qui va accompagner les grands bouleversements des années 1960. Près de sept décennies plus tard, ce poème halluciné n’a rien perdu de sa force, bien au contraire, et cette nouvelle traduction française en fait entendre à merveille tous les accords convulsifs, la beauté mêlée à la fange, l’amour à la violence, le sublime au chaos. Hymne de toute une génération, Howl s’inscrit ainsi définitivement dans l’histoire de la littérature comme une œuvre intemporelle, dont la lecture est à chaque fois un choc et une redécouverte éblouissante.

Allen Ginsberg was one of the bravest and most admired poets of this century. Famous for energizing the Beat Generation literary movement upon his historic encounter with Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs in mid-century New York City, Ginsberg influenced several generations of writers, musicians, and poets. When he died on April 5, 1997, we lost one of the greatest figures of twentieth-century American literary and cultural history. This singular volume of final poems commemorated the anniversary of Ginsberg''s death, and includes the verses he wrote in the years shortly before he died.

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.

Allen Ginsberg was a serious shutterbug who delighted in taking candid snapshots of friends and fellow writers, but up until now readers have had little chance to consider the "poetic" world of his photographs. Here in the form of twenty detachable postcards are photographs taken over the years on the poet''s many travels and trips abroad. Pictures include: Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Corso in Mexico; Burroughs and Bowles in Tangier; Snyder in Japan; Whalen and Creeley in Vancouver; Ginsberg in India and Prague, and Philip Glass in Turkey. Allen Ginsberg was born in 1926 in Newark, New Jersey. In 1956 City Lights published his signal poem "Howl," one of the most widely read poems of the era. He died in 1997. Also Available from City Lights Postcards from the Underground TP $8.95, 0-87286-365-4 bu CUSA

"Luminous Dreams" presents a half dozen shorter prose pieces by the late master, drawn from dreams

Far from merely paying respect to a man proclaimed as one of the key figures of twentieth-century American literary and cultural history, this volume provocatively recreates the impassioned voice of Ginsberg as man, poet, revolutionary and political activist. Always witty and engaging, this collection of interviews from throughout Ginsberg''s career reveals his attitudes towards poetry and drugs, his literary influences and personal relationships.

One of the longest relationships between a publisher and a writer, documented in an intimate correspondence spanning their respective careers.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) kept a journal his entire life, beginning at the age of eleven. In these first journals the most important and formative years of the poet''s storied life are captured, his inner thoughts detailed in what the San Francisco Chronicle calls a “vivid first-person account...Ginsberg''s unmistakable voice coming into its own for the first time.” Ginsberg''s journals-so candid he insisted they be published only after his death-document his complex, fascinating relationships with such figures of Beat lore as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, and reveal a growing self-awareness about himself, his sexuality, and his identity as a poet. Illustrated with never-before-seen photos and bolstered by an appendix of his earliest poems, The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice is a major literary event.

Item is a prepublication mock-up made in preparation for the final publication; the final versions illustrations are not included; all text appear on pieces of clear or white paper taped or glued to the cover and pages, and many corrections, measurements and other graphic layout instructions for the designer are hand written throughout.

A memoir of Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady taking off from the text of Kerouac''s ''Visions of Cody.'' Also contains previously unpublished letters by Neal Cassady; a recently discovered manuscript of Ginsberg''s from Denver, 1947, drawings by Basil King, and previously unpublished photos of Ginsberg, Kerouac, Cassady, and Peter Orlovsky.

Documentary of the final performance of Allen Ginsbergs̀ 1983 tour of northern Europe. Ginsberg, poet Peter Orlovsky and musician Steven Taylor are shown performing on stage, in interviews with the press, and in everyday scenes around Wuppertal.

"The following is a discussion of modern poetry between Allen Ginsberg, Michael Aldrich, Edward Kissam, and Nancy Blecker at Ginsberg''s farm in Cherry Valley, New York on November 26, 1968. The text deals with the literal act of writing, the way poems look on a page, and ways in which people read poems on the page and speak them in their minds"--Introduction.

"Reality Sandwiches" is a book of poetry by Allen Ginsberg published in 1963. The title comes from one of the included poems, "On Burroughs'' Work": "A naked lunch is natural to us,/we eat reality sandwiches." The book is dedicated to friend and fellow Beat poet Gregory Corso. Despite Ginsberg''s feeling that this collection was not his most significant, the poems still represent Ginsberg at a peak period of his craft. Contents: My Alba Sakyamuni Coming Out From The Mountain The Green Automobile Havana 1953 Siesta In Xbalba And Return To The States On Burroughs'' Work Love Poem On Theme By Whitman Over Kansas Malest Cornifici Tuo Catullo Dream Record: June 8, 1955 Fragment 1956 A Strange New Cottage In Berkeley Sather Gate Illumination Scribble Afternoon Seattle Psalm III Tears Ready To Roll Wrote This Last Night Squeal American Change ''Back On Times Square, Dreaming Of Times Square'' My Sad Self Battleship Newsreel I Beg You Come Back & Be Cheerful To An Old Poet In Peru Aether Fearfully Waiting Answer, A Magic Universe Have Felt Same Before Soundy Time, I Hear Again! Einstein Books'' edition of "Reality Sandwiches" contains supplementary texts: * Selected Poems From Empty Mirror, By Allen Ginsberg. * Howl, By Allen Ginsberg. * A Few Selected Quotes Of Allen Ginsberg.

Written between 1944 and 1976, the correspondence between Allen Ginsberg and his father, Louis, are filled with affection, respect, and a healthy dose of argumentative zeal. These letters give not only a personal glimpse into a great poet, but also the very moving story of a relationship between a father and son set against the turbulent world of postwar America. Photos.

Dagboeknotities, gedichten en invallen van de Amerikaanse dichter (1926- ) naar aanleiding van een verblijf in India in de jaren ''60.