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.
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..
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 more.
His poetic masterpieces, Howl and Kaddish, are presented here along with lesser-known and difficult to find songs and prose.
His most important poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews are displayed in chronological order.
The Essential Ginsberg collects a mosaic of materials that displays the full range of Ginsberg\'s mental landscape.
He was also the dynamic leader of war protesters, artists, Flower Power hippies, musicians, punks, and political radicals.
One of the Beat Generation\'s 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 norms--all before it became fashionable to do so.
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
