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1 2 >>>     sort list by title | author East Hill Farm Seasons with Allen Ginsberg Gordon Ball During the late 1960s, when peace, drugs, and free love were direct challenges to conventional society, Allen Ginsberg, treasurer of the Committee on Poetry, Inc., funded what he hoped was "a haven for comrades in distress" in rural upstate New York... Beat Atlas A State by State Guide to the Beat Generation in America Bill Morgan The ultimate tour guide for those interested in the Beats and their travels "on the road." White Hand Society The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg Peter Conners How Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary launched the psychedelic revolution together: the inside story. Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960 Pocket Poets Number 14, 50th Anniversary Edition Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish," a long poem written about the madness and death of his mother, Naomi, is widely considered to be one his major works. This special fiftieth­-anniversary edition of Kaddish & Other Poems features an illuminating afterword by... Howl A Graphic Novel Allen Ginsberg First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's Howl is a prophetic masterpiece--an epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obscenity charges to become one of the most widely read poems of the century.  Now a major... The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg A Narative Poem Ed Sanders The acclaimed chronicle of the life of the great beat poet, finally in paperback Allen Ginsberg: poet, activist, visionary, soul of the Beat Generation. For many, Ginsberg's powerful and unflinchingly honest poetry empowered the counterculture of... I Celebrate Myself The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg Bill Morgan In the first biography of Ginsberg since his death in 1997 and the only one to cover the entire span of his life, Ginsberg's archivist Bill Morgan draws on his deep knowledge of Ginsberg's largely unpublished private journals to give readers an... Howl on Trial The Battle for Free Expression Bill Morgan, Nancy J. Peters The inside story of the publication and defense of Howl in correspondence, documents and photographs. Howl Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public Reading, Legal Skirmishes, Pres Allen Ginsberg First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's Howl is a prophetic masterpiece—an epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obscenity charges to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. This... The Yage Letters Redux Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Oliver Harris In January 1953, William Burroughs began a seven-month expedition into the jungles of South America, ostensibly to find yage, the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. But Burroughs also cast his anthropological-satiric eye over the local regimes... Travels With Ginsberg A Postcard Book, Allen Ginsberg Photographs 1944-1997 Bill Morgan 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... Spontaneous Mind Selected Interviews, 1958-1996 Allen Ginsberg From his conversation with the conservative William F. Buckley on PBS to his testimony at the Chicago Seven trial to his passionate riffs on Cezanne, Blake, Whitman, and Pound, the interviews collected in Spontaneous Mind, chronologically arranged and... Selected Poems 1947-1995 Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg made his mark, along with Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder and others, in the Beat movement, a poetry of social protest that refused perceived elitist boundaries. Tortured by the paranoia and mental illness of his immigrant mother, and by his... Deliberate Prose Selected Essays 1952-1995 Allen Ginsberg 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... 1 2 >>>