Selected Poems

1947-1995

By: Allen Ginsberg

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Paperback | 29 March 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Chosen by Ginsberg himself from nearly fifty years of experimental, groundbreaking verse, this selection, in his words, âsummarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writingâ, and includes lesser known and later works which go beyond his iconic Beat Generation image. Presented chronologically, and ranging from early works such as âPatersonâ (1949) to selections from White Shroud (1980â"85) and Cosmopolitan Greetings (1986â"92), and including the classic poems Howl (1955â"56) and Kaddish (1959â"60) as well as songs, recent uncollected poems and notes by the author, this volume brings together the most intensely personal verse of a great American poet â" incandescent explorations that expand the consciousness with their breadth of vision and depth of humanity.

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"Brilliantly astute...Here is a poet who has earned our love."-- "Boston Globe"Taken all together, Ginsber's poems are X-rays of a considerable part of American society during the last four decades."-- "The New Yorker"The new generation reading "Selected Poems will find...that Ginsberg's force field of language still exerts a powerful imaginative pressure."-- Helen Vendler, "The New Yorker

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