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Allen Ginsberg in America
With a New Introduction by the Author
by Jane Kramer
ISBN: 0880641894
ISBN-13: 9780880641890
Format: Paperback
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Summary
"New Yorker" writer Jane Kramer tells the story of the late poet laureate of the Beat Generation.
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"[A] finely honed series of sketches of Ginsberg, his friends and the milieu in which they operate. Her book reads like fiction, a twentieth-century 'La Vie de Boheme'....You'll enjoy it even if you have never read a line of Ginsberg." -- Thomas Lask
-- New York Times
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Fromm Intl
Published date: 1997
Size: 5.75 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.65 pounds
Pages: 202
Publisher's Notes
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.
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Fromm Intl, 1997. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ covers slightly scuffed and creased; moderate edge wear/ several page tips slightly creased. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Harvest Moon Farm Book Cellar (United States)
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NY: Random House, 1969. 1st edition. Hardback. Very Good, lacks the dustjacket. ISBN: 0880641894 <em>Biography, full of those anarchists, hippies, poetry, etc, of the Beat Generation. Covers the whole Beat movement. See 'Charters B40; Reuben 158'.</em> ( more information) Offered by Recollection Books (United States)
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