I took it to be supernatural an gave it holy Name thus made hymn laments of longing & litanies of triumphancy of Self over mind-illusion mechano-universe of un-feeling Time in which I saw my self my own mother & my very nation trapped desolate our worlds of consciousness homeless & at war except for the original trembling of bliss in breast & belly of every body that nakedness rejected in suits of fear that familiar defenseless living hurt self which is myself same as all others abandoned scared to own unchanging desire for each other. If you enjoyed Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems, you might like Jack Kerouac's On the Road, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.Great strange visionary poems by the author of Howl: "In the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-20th century suffering anguish of separation from my own body & its natural infinity of feeling its own self one with all self, I instinctively seeking to reconstitute that blissful union which I experience so rarely. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, won the National Book Award for The Fall of America and was a co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute, the first accredited Buddhist college in the Western world. Dark, ecstatic and rhapsodic, they show why Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.Īllen Ginsberg (1926-97) was an American poet, best known for the poem 'Howl' (1956), celebrating his friends of the Beat Generation and attacking what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States at the time.
They include the apocalyptic 'Howl', which became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956 the moving lament for his dead mother, 'Kaddish' the searing indictment of his homeland, 'America' and the confessional 'Mescaline'.
This new collection brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counterculture.
'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked'īeat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of his finest work published in Penguin Modern Classics, including 'Howl', whose vindication at an obscenity trial was a watershed moment in twentieth-century history.
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