Screaming With Joy: The Life of Allen Ginsberg - Hardcover

Caveney, Graham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0767902785 ISBN 13: 9780767902786

Verlag: Broadway Books, 1999

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 216 pages; Description: vii, 216 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Ginsberg, Allen 1926-1997. Poets, American --20th century --Biography. Beat generation --Biography.

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Surveys the life of the beat poet who wrote about sexual freedom, pacifism, drug experimentation, and the need to resist censorship

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lly illustrated tribute to Allen Ginsberg--the best-known American poet of the post-war generation, mother of the Beats, and walking embodiment of Western counterculture.

Ginsberg's poetry, influenced by the writings of Walt Whitman and the spontaneous prose of his friend Jack Kerouac, is open, forthright, didactic, and written fast without revision. Much of his writing has a raw, confessional quality appropriate to his roles as one of the first gay spokespeople and a leading anti-Vietnam War activist.

From the publication of his first book, Howl and Other Poems, in 1956, Ginsberg became known as the champion of counterculture concerns: sexual freedom, pacifism, drug experimentation, opposition to censorship and authority, and acceptance of Eastern religions. The youngest of the Beat writers, Ginsberg was a lover to both William Burroughs and Kerouac and acted as the prophet and public face of the group--serving as Kerouac's unofficial agent for On the Road

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• Verlag: Broadway Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0767902785
• ISBN 13: 9780767902786
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216
• Herausgeber: Behar Tracy