Allen Ginsberg in America
Subtitle: with a new introduction by the author
By: Jane Kramer.
Publisher: Fromm International Pub.
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Beat generation -- Biography
Description: Allen Ginsberg came to national attention when his poem "Howl" was the subject of a San Francisco obscenity trial in 1956. Since then, millions of copies of the poem have been read on college campuses and elsewhere all over America. His powerful imagination, political agitation, and magnetic charisma have made him a symbol of the cultural transformation of the past fifty years.

Jane Kramer's book is an incisive and passionately human portrayal of Ginsberg's world and the people in it, whirling across America from San Francisco to Midwest college towns, from New York's East Village to California be-ins. Since his passing in 1997, Ginsberg has come to be recognized as a key figure in the American literary pantheon.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Random House, 1969.