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The Essential Ginsberg

Author : Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141399003

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The Essential Ginsberg by Allen Ginsberg Pdf

Visionary poet Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential cultural and literary figures of the 20th century, his face and political causes familiar to millions who had never even read his poetry. And yet he is a figure that remains little understood, especially how a troubled young man became one of the intellectual and artistic giants of the postwar era. He never published an autobiography or memoirs, believing that his body of work should suffice. The Essential Ginsberg attempts a more intimate and rounded portrait of this iconic poet by bringing together for the first time his most memorable poetry but also journals, music, photographs and letters, much of it never before published.

The Essential Ginsberg

Author : Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780062362292

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The Essential Ginsberg by Allen Ginsberg Pdf

Featuring the legendary and groundbreaking poem "Howl," this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsberg's poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews, and contains sixteen pages of his personal photographs. One of the Beat Generation's most renowned poets and writers, Allen Ginsberg became internationally famous not only for his published works but also for his actions as a human rights activist who championed the sexual revolution, gay liberation, Buddhism and Eastern religion, and the confrontation of societal norms—all before it became fashionable to do so. He was also the dynamic leader of war protesters, artists, Flower Power hippies, musicians, punks, and political radicals. The Essential Ginsberg collects a mosaic of material that displays the full range of Ginsberg's mental landscape. His most important poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews are displayed in chronological order. His poetic masterpieces, "Howl" and "Kaddish," are presented here along with lesser-known and difficult-to-find songs and prose. Personal correspondence with William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac is included, as well as photographs—shot and captioned by Ginsberg himself—of his friends and fellow rogues William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and others. Through his essays, journals, interviews, and letters, this definitive volume will inspire readers to delve deeper into a body of work that remains one of the most impressive literary canons in American history.

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg

Author : Jack Kerouac,Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101437131

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Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg by Jack Kerouac,Allen Ginsberg Pdf

The first collection of letters between the two leading figures of the Beat movement Writers and cultural icons Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg are the most celebrated names of the Beat Generation, linked together not only by their shared artistic sensibility but also by a deep and abiding friend­ship, one that colored their lives and greatly influenced their writing. Editors Bill Morgan and David Stanford shed new light on this intimate and influential friendship in this fascinating exchange of letters between Kerouac and Ginsberg, two thirds of which have never been published before. Commencing in 1944 while Ginsberg was a student at Columbia University and continuing until shortly before Kerouac's death in 1969, the two hundred letters included in this book provide astonishing insight into their lives and their writing. While not always in agreement, Ginsberg and Kerouac inspired each other spiritually and creatively, and their letters became a vital workshop for their art. Vivid, engaging, and enthralling, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters provides an unparalleled portrait of the two men who led the cultural and artistic movement that defined their generation.

I Celebrate Myself

Author : Bill Morgan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 014311249X

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I Celebrate Myself by Bill Morgan Pdf

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 unparalleled and finely detailed portrait of one of America's most famous poets. Morgan sheds new light on some of the pivotal aspects of Ginsberg's life, including the poet's associations with other members of the Beat Generation, his complex relationship with his lifelong partner, Peter Orlovsky, his involvement with Tibetan Buddhism, and above all his genius for living.

American Scream

Author : Jonah Raskin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520939344

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American Scream by Jonah Raskin Pdf

Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This first full critical and historical study of Howl brilliantly elucidates the nexus of politics and literature in which it was written and gives striking new portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. Drawing from newly released psychiatric reports on Ginsberg, from interviews with his psychiatrist, Dr. Philip Hicks, and from the poet's journals, American Scream shows how Howl brought Ginsberg and the world out of the closet of a repressive society. It also gives the first full accounting of the literary figures—Eliot, Rimbaud, and Whitman—who influenced Howl, definitively placing it in the tradition of twentieth-century American poetry for the first time. As he follows the genesis and the evolution of Howl, Jonah Raskin constructs a vivid picture of a poet and an era. He illuminates the development of Beat poetry in New York and San Francisco in the 1950s--focusing on historic occasions such as the first reading of Howl at Six Gallery in San Francisco in 1955 and the obscenity trial over the poem's publication. He looks closely at Ginsberg's life, including his relationships with his parents, friends, and mentors, while he was writing the poem and uses this material to illuminate the themes of madness, nakedness, and secrecy that pervade Howl. A captivating look at the cultural climate of the Cold War and at a great American poet, American Scream finally tells the full story of Howl—a rousing manifesto for a generation and a classic of twentieth-century literature.

The Best Minds of My Generation

Author : Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780241187531

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The Best Minds of My Generation by Allen Ginsberg Pdf

A unique history of the Beats, in the words of the movement's most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his lectures In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem 'Howl' and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation. Through this course, Ginsberg saw an opportunity to present a complete history of Beat Literature and also to record and preserve his own personal stories and memories, ones that might have otherwise been lost to history. The result was a deeply intimate, candid and illuminating set of lectures, which form the basis of this book. Compiled and edited by renowned Beat scholar Bill Morgan, and with an introduction by Anne Waldman, The Best Minds of My Generation presents the lectures in edited form, revealing the Beats as Ginsberg knew them: friends, confidantes, literary mentors, and fellow revolutionaries. In The Best Minds of My Generation, Ginsberg gives us the convoluted origin story of the "Beat" idea, recounts anecdotes of meeting Kerouac, Burroughs, and other figures for the first time, elucidates the importance of music, and particularly jazz rhythms, to Beat writing, discusses their many influences - literary, pharmaceutical and spiritual - and paints a portrait of a group who were leading a literary revolution. A unique document that works both as historical record and unconventional memoir, The Best Minds of My Generation is a vivid, personal and eye-opening look at one of the most important literary movements of the twentieth century.

Journals Mid-fifties, 1954-1958

Author : Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015034264278

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Journals Mid-fifties, 1954-1958 by Allen Ginsberg Pdf

In these most personal of pages we follow Allen Ginsberg from heady times of the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance and sojourns in the Arctic and Mexico, through his 1957 visit to Burroughs in Morocco, and adventures in Paris, Amsterdam, London, and New York. These journals offer an account of Ginsberg's emotional life: his homosexuality; his love affair with Peter Orlovsky; and the death of his mother.

Dharma Lion

Author : Michael Schumacher
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781452951577

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Dharma Lion by Michael Schumacher Pdf

With the sweep of an epic novel, Michael Schumacher tells the story of Allen Ginsberg and his times, with fascinating portraits of Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and William Burroughs, among others, along with many rarely seen photographs.

This Is the Beat Generation

Author : James Campbell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520230337

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This Is the Beat Generation by James Campbell Pdf

In New York in 1944, Campbell finds the leading members of what was to become the Beat Generation in the shadows of madness and criminality. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs had each seen the insides of a mental hospital and a prison by the age of 30. This book charts the transformation of these experiences into literature, and a literary movement that spread across the globe. 35 photos.

The Fall of America Journals, 1965–1971

Author : Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781452964843

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The Fall of America Journals, 1965–1971 by Allen Ginsberg Pdf

An autobiographical journey through America in the turbulent 1960s—the essential backstory to Ginsberg’s National Book Award–winning volume of poetry Published in 1974, The Fall of America was Allen Ginsberg’s magnum opus, a poetic account of his experiences in a nation in turmoil. What his National Book Award–winning volume documented he had also recorded, playing a reel-to-reel tape machine given to him by Bob Dylan as he traveled the nation’s byways and visited its cities, finding himself again and again in the midst of history in the making—or unmaking. Through a wealth of autopoesy (transcriptions of these recorded poems) published here for the first time in the poet’s journals of this period, Ginsberg can be overheard collecting the observations, events, reflections and conversations that would become his most extraordinary work as he witnessed America at a time of historic upheaval and gave voice to the troubled soul at its crossroads. The Fall of America Journals, 1965–1971 contains some of Ginsberg’s finest spontaneous writing, accomplished as he pondered the best and worst his country had to offer. He speaks of his anger over the war in Vietnam, the continuing oppression of dissidents, intractable struggles, and experiments with drugs and sexuality. He mourns the deaths of his friends Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac, parses the intricacies of the presidential politics of 1968, and grapples with personal and professional challenges in his daily life. An essential backstory to his monumental work, the journals from these years also reveal drafts of some of his most highly regarded poems, including “Wichita Vortex Sutra,” “Wales Visitation,” “On Neal’s Ashes,” and “Memory Gardens,” as well as poetry published here for the first time and his notes on many of his vivid and detailed dreams. Transcribed, edited, and annotated by Michael Schumacher, a writer closely associated with Ginsberg’s life and work, these journals are nothing less than a first draft of the poet’s journey to the heart of twentieth-century America.

Essentials of Artificial Intelligence

Author : Matt Ginsberg
Publisher : Newnes
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780323139687

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Essentials of Artificial Intelligence by Matt Ginsberg Pdf

Since its publication, Essentials of Artificial Intelligence has been adopted at numerous universities and colleges offering introductory AI courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Based on the author's course at Stanford University, the book is an integrated, cohesive introduction to the field. The author has a fresh, entertaining writing style that combines clear presentations with humor and AI anecdotes. At the same time, as an active AI researcher, he presents the material authoritatively and with insight that reflects a contemporary, first hand understanding of the field. Pedagogically designed, this book offers a range of exercises and examples.

Spontaneous Mind

Author : Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0060930829

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Spontaneous Mind by Allen Ginsberg Pdf

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 in some cases previously unpublished, were conducted throughout Allen Ginsberg's long career. From the late 1950s to the mid-1990s, Ginsberg speaks frankly about his life, his work, and major events, allowing us to hear once again the impassioned voice of one of the most influential literary and cultural figures of our time.

Indian Journals

Author : Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802196888

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Indian Journals by Allen Ginsberg Pdf

Allan Ginsberg was the leading poet and conscience of the Beat generation. Indian Journals collects Ginsberg’s writings from his trip to India in 1962–63.

Howl

Author : Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780061137457

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Howl by Allen Ginsberg Pdf

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 annotated version of Ginsberg's classic is the poet's own re-creation of the revolutionary work's composition process—as well as a treasure trove of anecdotes, an intimate look at the poet's writing techniques, and a veritable social history of the 1950s.

Don't Hide the Madness

Author : William S. Burroughs,Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : Mitten Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 1941110703

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Don't Hide the Madness by William S. Burroughs,Allen Ginsberg Pdf

An intense, compelling conversation between legendary Beat icons William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, featuring photos by Ginsberg, and details of Burroughs' shamanic exorcism of the demon that led him to shoot his wife and drove his work as a writer.