| Collected Poems 1947-1997 Contributor(s): Ginsberg, Allen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061139750 ISBN-13: 9780061139758 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $23.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2007 Annotation: Here, for the first time, is a volume that gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half century of brilliant work from one of America's great poets. As the 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. 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, popular song, and speech but also our view of the world. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Inspirational & Religious |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| Physical Information: 2.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (2.25 lbs) 1216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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 great 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ginsberg, Allen: - 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. |