Allen Ginsberg Poetry Collection

Unabridged
Author: Allen Ginsberg
Narrator: Allen Ginsberg
Genres: Poetry
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date: December 2004
Length: 3 hours
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Formats:
  • CD
  • WMA

Overview

A collection of poems by one of the greatest literary and cultural figures of the 20th century

Upon the release of his first published work, Howl and Other Poems, in 1956, Allen Ginsberg became the unlikely force of a movement that would change a generation. Literature, art, sex, love, family, politics; nothing would ever be the same. The Beat Generation was born through Ginsberg and his friends.

This collection of more than two dozen poems in verse and song is the best of the best, celebrating someone who was of his time, ahead of his time, and whose legacy will transcend time.

Included are: Howl, Kaddish, Pull My Daisy, A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley, A Supermarket in California, Sunflower Sutra, America, Many Loves, To Aunt Rose, I am a Victim of Telephone, Kral Majales, Who Be Kind To, City Midnight Junk Strains, On Neal’ s Ashes, September on Jessore Road, Mind Breaths, Jahweh and Allah Battle, Lay down Your Mountain, Don’ t Grow Old, Father Death Blues, Plutonian Ode, White Shroud, Sphincter, Personals Ad, Hum Bomb, After Lalon, Put Down Your Cigarette Don’ t Smoke, Charnal Ground, C’ mon Pigs of Western Civilization, New Stanzas for Amazing Grace

Reviews (1)

Howl

Written by Bob Williams on June 30th, 2007

  • Book Rating: 5/5

Groundbreaking stream of consciousness ramblings of counterculture gurus who brought voice to the anonymous musings inside our heads. I have had this book on my nightstand for 25 years and still marvel at the gut wrenching in your face observations of pre-hippie drug induced escapeisms. Remarkable for it's anti establishment rants that became the genesis for shift in culture, music, and literature. The beat writers were responsible for opening doors that were previously locked and they pushed open and knocked down taboo subjects and exposed in detail the underbelly of the idyllic America. They snarled and hissed at all that we considered sacred and threw semantic Molotov cocktails through the windows of the well groomed lawns and shaded side streets of quiet America. It should be read!!