Best Selling Books by Allen Ginsberg

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.

Planet News collecting seven years'' Poesy scribed to 1967 begins with electronic politics disassociation & messianic rhapsody TV Baby in New York, continues picaresque around the globe, elan perceptions notated at Mediterranean, Galilee & Ganges till...

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

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.

''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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, and broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. The apocalyptic ''Howl'', originally written as a performance piece, became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956. It is considered to be one of the defining works of the Beat Generation, standing alongside that of Burroughs, Kerouac, and Corso. In it, Ginsberg attacks what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States at the time, and takes on issues of sex, drugs and race, simultaneously creating what would become the poetic anthem for US counterculture.

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.

A travel guide through one of the best minds of the Beat Generation Allen Ginsberg''s journals are more tour de force than simple diaries, charting his poetry, political antics, and high-profile encounters behind the Iron Curtain at the height of the Cold War

"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.

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

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.