Allen Ginsberg

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature. Allen Ginsberg (1926-97) was born in Newark, New Jersey, to a poet-teacher father and Russian emigre mother. Along with his friend Jack Kerouac, he attended Columbia University, but was initially expelled for writings obscenities on his dormitory window before returning to complete his graduation in 1948. When "Howl and Other Poems" was impounded by San Francisco customs in 1956, the subsequent trial for obscenity catapulted Ginsberg and his publisher City Lights to national fame and helped to define the Beat Generation. His "Collected Poems: 1947-1997" appeared in 2006.

ISBN 0571238106   Weight (grammes) 115 ISBN13 9780571238101 (What's this?)   Published in London Publisher Faber and Faber   Series title Poet to Poet Imprint Faber and Faber   Height (mm) 197 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 120 Publication date 01 May 2008   Spine width (mm) 11 DEWEY 811.54   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22   Alternative ISBN 9780375409653 Pages 160

		Dream Record: June 8, 1955		3
		Howl		5
		Footnote to Howl		16
		A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley		18
		A Supermaket in California		19
		Sunflower Sutra		21
		Sather Gate Illumination		24
		America		28
		Psalm III		32
		Many Loves		33
		Death to Van Gogh's Ear!		37
		The Lion for Real		42
		At Apollinaire's Grave		45
		To Lindsay		49
		To Aunt Rose		50
		American Change		52
		'Back on Times Square, Dreaming of Times Square'		55
		My Sad Self		57
		Battleship Newsreel		59
		Kaddish		60
		Psalm IV		86
		To P.O.		87
		I Am a Victim of Telephone		88
		Kral Majales		90
		First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels		93
		Wichita Vortex Sutra		94
		Uptown		115
		Wales Visitation		116
		Elegy for Neal Cassady		120
		Imaginary Universes		124
		Rain-wet asphalt heat, garbage curbed cans overflowing		125

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