Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

Name: Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780141190167
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By Allen Ginsberg

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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In Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems, Allen Ginsberg presents a collection of powerful and provocative poetry that captures the spirit of the Beat Generation. The poems explore themes of individualism, social criticism, and the search for meaning in a tumultuous world. Ginsberg's candid and often raw style challenges conventional norms and invites readers into a world filled with introspection and rebellion.
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You might enjoy this collection if you appreciate the raw, passionate voice of the Beat Generation, exploring powerful themes of madness, spirituality, and social criticism through revolutionary and heart-stirring poetry. Ideal for lovers of iconoclastic literature and those intrigued by mid-20th-century American counterculture.

Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked' Beat movement icon and visionary poet, the author broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This book brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counterculture.

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'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.

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780141190167

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 February 2009

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 7.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 101g

Pages: 128

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About the Author

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) 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. 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.