Title: Allen Ginsberg /
Authors: Finbow, Steve.
Publisher: Reaktion Books,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Ginsberg, Allen,; Poets, American Biography
Abstract: A biography of Allen Ginsberg that re-examines the life, poetry and politics of this crucial poet and activist, and discusses his position in American letters and culture. It moves from the influences of childhood to his meeting with Kerouac and Burroughs in the New York of the late 1940s and the birth of the Beat Generation.
Contents: "Hell on earth," 1926-47 -- "The lost America of love," 1948-57 -- "Ugh!", 1958-67 -- "The most brilliant man in America," 1968-77 -- "Many prophets have failed," 1978-87 -- "An urn of ashes," 1988-97 -- See you later, Allen Ginsberg-- .