Essential Ginsberg e-bog
97,26 DKK
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Featuring the legendary and groundbreaking poem Howl, this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsbergs poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews and contains sixteen pages of his personal photographs.One of the Beat Generations most renowned poets and writers, Allen Ginsberg became internationally famous not only for his published works but for his actions as a huma...
E-bog
97,26 DKK
Forlag
Harper Perennial
Udgivet
26 maj 2015
Længde
448 sider
Genrer
1KBB
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780062362292
Featuring the legendary and groundbreaking poem Howl, this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsbergs poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews and contains sixteen pages of his personal photographs.One of the Beat Generations most renowned poets and writers, Allen Ginsberg became internationally famous not only for his published works but for his actions as a human rights activist who championed the sexual revolution, human rights, gay liberation, Buddhism and eastern religion, and the confrontation of societal normsall 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 materials that displays the full range of Ginsbergs 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 photographsshot and captioned by Ginsberg himselfof his friends and fellow rogues William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and more.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.