Collected Poems 1947-1997

"Taken all together, Ginsberg's poems are X-rays of a considerable part of American society during the last four decades." -- The New Yorker

This magnificent volume gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half-century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets.

A 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 in the tradition of Whitman, Apollinaire, Hart Crane, Pound, and William Carlos Williams. Ginsberg's raw tones and attitudes of spiritual liberation also helped catalyze a psychological revolution that has become a permanent part of our cultural heritage, profoundly influencing not only poetry and popular song and speech, but also our views of the world.

Author: Allen Ginsberg
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 10/09/2007
Pages: 1216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.25lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 2.50d
ISBN: 9780061139758
Award: National Jewish Book Award - Special Recognition

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 10/28/2007 pg. 28

About the Author
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Allen Ginsberg was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as a winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1926, and died in New York City in 1997.