Collected poems, 1947-1997 / Allen Ginsberg.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harper Perennial modern classicsPublication details: New York : HarperPerennial, 2007, c2006.Edition: 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics edDescription: xx, 1189 p. : ill., music ; 24 cmContent type:
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Collected poems 1947-1980: Empty mirror: gates of wrath (1947-1952) -- The green automobile (1953-1954) -- Howl, before & after: San Francisco Bay area (1955-1956) -- Reality sandwiches: Europe! Europe! (1957-1959) -- Kaddish and related poems (1959-1960) -- Planet news: to Europe and Asia (1961-1963) -- King of May: America to Europe (1963-1965) -- The fall of America (1965-1971) -- Mind breaths all over the place (1972-1977) -- Plutonian ode (1977-1980) -- White shroud: poems 1980-1985 -- Cosmopolitan greetings: poems 1986-1992 -- Death & fame: poems 1993-1997.
Summary: Here, for the first time, is a volume that gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half century of brilliant work from one of America's great poets. As the chief figure among the Beats, Ginsberg changed the course of American poetry, liberating it from closed academic forms with the creation of open, vocal, spontaneous, and energetic postmodern verse. Ginsberg's raw tones and attitudes of spiritual liberation also helped catalyze a psychological revolution that has become a permanent part of our cultural heritage, profoundly influencing not only poetry, popular song, and speech but also our view of the world.
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Includes melodies with chord symbols for some of the poems.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Collected poems 1947-1980: Empty mirror: gates of wrath (1947-1952) -- The green automobile (1953-1954) -- Howl, before & after: San Francisco Bay area (1955-1956) -- Reality sandwiches: Europe! Europe! (1957-1959) -- Kaddish and related poems (1959-1960) -- Planet news: to Europe and Asia (1961-1963) -- King of May: America to Europe (1963-1965) -- The fall of America (1965-1971) -- Mind breaths all over the place (1972-1977) -- Plutonian ode (1977-1980) -- White shroud: poems 1980-1985 -- Cosmopolitan greetings: poems 1986-1992 -- Death & fame: poems 1993-1997.

Here, for the first time, is a volume that gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half century of brilliant work from one of America's great poets. As the chief figure among the Beats, Ginsberg changed the course of American poetry, liberating it from closed academic forms with the creation of open, vocal, spontaneous, and energetic postmodern verse. Ginsberg's raw tones and attitudes of spiritual liberation also helped catalyze a psychological revolution that has become a permanent part of our cultural heritage, profoundly influencing not only poetry, popular song, and speech but also our view of the world.

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