Collected Poems 19471997, Allen Ginsberg
Collected Poems 19471997, Allen Ginsberg
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Collected Poems 1947-1997

Author: Allen Ginsberg

Narrator: Greg D. Barnett

Unabridged: 28 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/26/2024


Synopsis

"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 greatest 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.

About Allen Ginsberg

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

Some of these are wonderful. Others are atrocious. So, I can't really make up my mind on whether I want to trash it or put it on the favourites shelf... Wonderfulness! Q: Psalm 1 These psalms are the workings of the vision haunted mind and not that reason which never changes. I am flesh and blood, but my......more

Goodreads review by Emily

My brother gave me this book when I was just starting high school. I got really, really into the beat poets then, and developed an obsession that burned too brightly not to snuff itself out. But even though I try to move away from Ginsberg, he helped me discover poetry and my ideals about life in th......more

Goodreads review by Charles

The collected poems of Allen Ginsberg remains to be the books of poetry I most often return to. Though his early and late writings lack the revolutionary focus and fire of Howl, though he spends (in my opinion) far too many pages carving out, in tingling detail, sexual events and fantasies, though h......more

Goodreads review by Jana

I am not a huge Ginsberg fan. There is frequently too much of the ego in his work for my taste and many of his earlier works are (in my opinion) more rant than stream of consciousness (as they have been described) despite my sympathy with his causes. That said, there is also no disputing his influen......more