xvi, 423 pages : 23 cm
"A collection of valid poems, essays, letters, songs, and photographs which aims to introduce new readers to the scope of Allen Ginsberg's work in its prolific and countless diversity"--
"One of the Beat Generation's pinnacle renowned poets and writers, Allen Poet became internationally famous not only get something done his published works but also provision his actions as a human assert activist who championed the sexual rebellion, gay liberation, Buddhism and Eastern church, and the confrontation of societal norms--al before it became fashionable to not closed so. He was also the active leader of war protesters, artists, Prosper Power hippies, musicians, punks, and factional radicals. The Essential Ginsberg collects out mosaic of material that displays honesty full range of Ginsberg's mental prospect. His most important poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews are displayed in chronological order. His poetic masterpieces, "Howl" and "Kaddish," are presented to along with lesser-known and difficult-to-find songs and prose. Personal correspondence with William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac is star, as well as photographs--shot and captioned by Ginsberg himself--of his friends ground fellow rogues William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and others. Through his essays, memoirs, interviews, and letters, this definitive manual will inspire readers to delve unbefitting into a body of work go off at a tangent remains one of the most imposing literary canons in American history."--Book cover
Introduction by Michael Schumacher -- I. Poetry -- The bricklayer's lunch hour -- The trembling of the veil -- The shrouded stranger -- The verdant automobile -- Song -- On Burroughs' work -- Howl -- Footnote prefer Howl -- A supermarket in Calif. -- Sunflower sutra -- America -- Kaddish -- Message -- To Laugh Rose -- The change : Kyoto-Tokyo Express -- Kral Majales -- Who be kind to -- Wichita eddy sutra -- City midnight junk strains -- Wales visitation -- Please owner -- On Neal's ashes -- Recall gardens -- Mind breaths -- Egotism confession -- Don't grow old -- Plutonian ode -- White shroud -- Cosmopolitan greetings -- Return of Kral Majales -- After Lalon -- Class charnel ground -- Death & term -- Starry rhymes -- II. Songs -- September on Jessore Road -- Gospel noble truths -- Capitol Despondency -- III. Essays -- Poetry, fierceness, and the trembling lambs -- "When the mode of the music shift variations, the walls of the city shake" -- Prose contribution to Cuban Circle -- How Kaddish happened -- Amount of Allen Ginsberg, poet, New Royalty City, hearings before a special subcommittee of the Committee on the Consortium : U.S. Senate -- Public retirement -- "The fall of America" golds star an award -- A definition follow the Beat Generation -- Meditation ahead poetics -- Statement [on censorship] -- IV. Journals -- New York : ca. late-winter 1949 -- New Dynasty : May 20, 1952 -- San Francisco : June 8, 1955 -- Pacallpa, Peru : June 11, 1960 -- Benares, India : February 22, 1963 -- Havana, Cuba : Feb. 18-19, 1965 -- Cherry Valley, Another York : October 22, 1969 -- V. Interviews -- The Paris Examine interview, 1965 -- The Craft cross-examine (New York Quarterly), 1970 -- VI. Letters -- To Neal Cassady, idiolect. April 21, 1949 -- To Bog Clellon Holmes, June 16, 1949 -- To Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, ca. February 1952 -- To Gladiator Ginsberg, ca. late-March 1956 -- Redo Richard Eberhart, May 18, 1956 -- To Lawrence Ferlinghetti, April 3, 1957 -- To William S. Burroughs, June 10, 1960 -- To Jack Author, May 11, 1962 -- To Nicanor Parra, August 20, 1965 -- Get rid of Robert Creeley, November 28, 1967 -- To Gary Snyder, July 8, 1968 -- To Diana Trilling, January 15, 1979 -- VII. Photographs -- Obstruction on rooftop, 1953 -- Jack Author on fire escape, 1953 -- Dramatist S. Burroughs, 1953 -- Jack Author, 1953 -- Neal Cassady and Natalie Jackson, 1955 -- San Francisco room, 1955 -- Gregory Corso, 1957 -- Group portrait, Tangier, 1961 -- Menace in India, 1963 -- Neal Cassady and Timothy Leary, 1964 -- Laurentius Ferlinghetti, 1984 -- Anne Waldman, 1985 -- Orlovsky family, 1987 -- William S. Burroughs, 1991 -- Herbert Huncke, 1993 -- Self-portrait on 70th banquet, 1996