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. 'I saw the
best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical
naked' Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke
boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This new collection
brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figure
of the counterculture.
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'. Dark, ecstatic and rhapsodic, they show why Ginsberg was
one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. Allen
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.
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg
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