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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780061139758
ISBN: 0061139750
Label: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1216
Publication Date: October 01, 2007
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Release Date: October 09, 2007
Studio: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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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.
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This book contains almost all of Ginsberg's poetry. If you are one of those people that must have all of his poems, a great purchase would be The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice. It is his journals and early poems from 1937-1952. You will have every poem that he wrote and his journal. Also, you can buy his book of letters too.
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Allen Ginsberg's work is powerful. I highly recommend this book! Although not always as cheerful as you may wish him to be, Ginsberg brings the reality of life to these poems.
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Ginsberg's poems are the bardic cries of the American counter-culture. His recitation of "Howl" in a San Francisco bookstore in 1955 changed America and the world forever. How one poem can have such an effect is astounding and I can think of no other poetic work that has had such an impact. Regardless of one's political or religious leanings, if one is to seriously study and read American poetry, then one must come to terms with the works of Allen Ginsberg. This volume contains it all.
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Ginsberg has always been an enigma to me. He certainly has sparks of genius; the justly famous "Howl" and the in some ways even better "Footnote to Howl" are excellent poems, and he has quite a few other poems of near-equal calibre (I find they tend to centre around "Howl").
Nonetheless, he falls short of being a first-rate poet. He is well worth reading, because he is an important figure and a better poet than most, but he falls short of the greatness of other 20th century American ... Read More
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Americans who can't name five poets will name Allen Ginsberg. In this case, that is good since he was one of America's Greatest Poets. This book attest to this.
I write this review to show disappointment in the publisher who continues to publish the collected works on the cheapest paper next to newsprint.
For the next edition, I would like to see, at least in limited edition, a volume printed on quality paper which could last more than a few years before turning yellow.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780061139758
ISBN: 0061139750
Label: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1216
Publication Date: October 01, 2007
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Release Date: October 09, 2007
Studio: Harper Perennial Modern Classics