Title: Screaming with joy : the life of Allen Ginsberg /
Authors: Caveney, Graham.; Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection.
Publisher: Broadway Books,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Ginsberg, Allen,; Poets, American Biography; Beats (Persons) Biography
Abstract: "Ginsberg's poetry, influenced by the writings of Walt Whitman and the spontaneous prose of his friend Jack Kerouac, is open, forthright, didactic, and written fast without revision. Much of his writing has a raw, confessional quality appropriate to his roles as one of the first gay spokespeople and a leading anti-Vietnam War activist." "Screaming with Joy, overflowing with more than 150 photographs and illustrations, is a passionate documentary of Ginsberg's zealous life. His untimely death in 1997 silenced a voice that expanded the capacity of our language, and his cultural icon status makes his work and life of even greater interest today."--Jacket.