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Selected Poems

1947-1995

Allen Ginsberg

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English
Penguin
02 November 2001
Chosen by Ginsberg himself from nearly fifty years of experimental, groundbreaking verse, this selection, in his words, 'summarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing', and includes lesser known and later works which go beyond his iconic Beat Generation image. Presented chronologically, and ranging from early works such as 'Paterson' (1949) to selections from White Shroud (1980-85) and Cosmopolitan Greetings (1986-92), and including the classic poems Howl (1955-56) and Kaddish (1959-60) as well as songs, recent uncollected poems and notes by the author, this volume brings together the most intensely personal verse of a great American poet - incandescent explorations that expand the consciousness with their breadth of vision and depth of humanity.

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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   319g
ISBN:   9780141184760
ISBN 10:   0141184760
Series:   Penguin Modern Classics
Pages:   464
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Selected Poems: 1947-1995

Brilliantly astute...Here is a poet who has earned our love. -- Boston Globe Taken all together, Ginsber's poems are X-rays of a considerable part of American society during the last four decades. -- The New Yorker The new generation reading Selected Poems will find...that Ginsberg's force field of language still exerts a powerful imaginative pressure. -- Helen Vendler, The New Yorker


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