![]() ![]() '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. Dark, ecstatic and rhapsodic, they show why Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth centuryĪllen 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. 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 other, '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. Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. ![]()
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