Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg, Mark Ford

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Faber & Faber
10 July 2008

Series: Poet to Poet

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-97) was born in Newark, New Jersey, to a poet-teacher father and Russian emigrant mother. Along with his friend Jack Kerouac, he attended Columbia University, but was initially expelled for writings obscenities on his dormitory window before returning to complete his graduation in 1948. When Howl and Other Poems was impounded by San Francisco customs in 1956, the subsequent trial for obscenity catapulted Ginsberg and his publisher City Lights to national fame and helped to define the Beat Generation. His Collected Poems 1947-1997 appeared in 2006.

By: Allen Ginsberg
Edited by: Mark Ford
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 118mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 140g
ISBN: 9780571238101
ISBN 10: 0571238106
Series: Poet to Poet
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 10 July 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Ford was born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1962. He is a regular contributor to The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement and The New Republic.