Collected Poems 1947-1997
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.
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About the Author
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.
Reviews
"Ginsberg's poems are reminders that those who face a culture's disapproval can approve themselves."--The Progressive
"The COLLECTED POEMS" are the ultimate statement on Ginsberg's art."--Chicago Tribune
"If you want to read Ginsberg's poetry, you should go straight to the source. COLLECTED POEMS 1947-1997 gathers everything."--Los Angeles Times
"Taken all together, Ginsberg's poems are X-rays of a considerable part of American society during the last four decades."--The New Yorker
"The volume gathers for the first time all the published verse of...poet Ginsberg...A history...of a turbulent time."--Salt Lake City Tribune
"The mammoth new COLLECTED POEMS, 1947-1997 places Ginsberg firmly among the most prolific poets of the age."--Washington Post Book World
"Essential...COLLECTED POEMS...is easily the best of the bunch...Some 50 years later, Ginsberg's talent still glows on paper."--The Post and Courier
"Sooner or later, anyone interested in American poetry must embrace Allen Ginsberg."--Houston Chronicle
"A...brilliant volume that shows Ginsberg...to be not only a legendary protest writer but also a lyric poet."--New York Times
"he wrote any number of splendid, singular poems that no other American poet of our age was capable of penning..."--San Diego Union-Tribune
