Howl Kaddish And Other Poems

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Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation & Howl Kaddish & 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 & 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; & the confessional Mescaline. Dark ecstatic & 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 & attacking what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism & conformity in the United States at the time. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & 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" & 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. If you enjoyed " Howl Kaddish & Other Poems" you might like Jack Kerouacs " On the Road" also available in " Penguin Modern Classics". " The poem that defined a generation". (" Guardian" on " Howl"). " He avoids nothing but experiences it to the hilt". (William Carlos Williams)."