Allen Ginsberg
By: Steve Finbow
Series: Critical lives; Critical lives (London, England)
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781780230177
Subjects: Biography; American Poets
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references.