num_pages: 119
description: 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.
language: English
title: Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
publisher: Penguin Classics