Allen Ginsberg

The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971

Herausgeber: Schumacher, Michael

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"An autobiographical journey through America in the turbulent 1960s-the essential backstory to Ginsberg's National Book Award-winning volume of poetry"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 168mm x 47mm
• Gewicht: 1178g
• ISBN-13: 9780816699636
• ISBN-10: 0816699631
• Artikelnr.: 59550581

Autorenporträt

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was born in Newark, New Jersey. As a student at Columbia College in the 1940s, he began close friendships with William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and Jack Kerouac, and later became associated with the Beat movement and the San Francisco Renaissance in the 1950s. After jobs as a laborer, sailor, and market researcher, he published his first volume of poetry, Howl and Other Poems, in 1956. “Howl” defeated censorship trials to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. He received the National Book Award in 1974 for The Fall of America. Michael Schumacher is author of the acclaimed Ginsberg biography Dharma Lion (Minnesota, 2016). Along with Ginsberg’s Iron Curtain Journals and South American Journals and Conversations with Allen Ginsberg (all from Minnesota), he has edited Family Business, selected correspondence between Allen and Louis Ginsberg, and The Essential Ginsberg, a reader of Ginsberg’s best work. 

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Editor’s Introduction
A Note on Editing Allen Ginsberg
Acknowledgments
The Fall of America Journals
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
Postscript: Denver to Montana, 1972
Appendix A: Allen Ginsberg’s Descriptive Note Ending The Fall of America
Appendix B: Acceptance Speech for 1973 National Book Award for The Fall of
America
Select Bibliography by and About Allen Ginsberg