num_pages: 627
description: Allen Ginsberg occupies a significant, enduring position in American literature. Following his death in '97, Barry Miles has drawn on both his long friendship with the poet &amp; on Ginsberg's journals &amp; correspondence to produce an immensely readable account of one of the 20th century's most extraordinary poets.Childhood: Paterson A Columbia education: the origins of the Beat GenerationA street educationThe subterraneans On the road to California"Howl" &amp; the San Francisco renaissance"The classic stations of the earth""Kaddish" Adventures in psychedeliaCut-upsIndia The change The king of MayInto the vortexPaterfamilias The lion of DharmaEminence griseAfterwordAcknowledgmentsChapter NotesBibliographyIndex
language: English
title: Allen Ginsberg: A Biography
titlecomplete: Allen Ginsberg: A Biography
characters: Allen Ginsberg
genres: Biography, History, American History, Queer, Nonfiction, Literature, Poetry, LGBT
ratings_count: 480
publisher: Virgin Books