by Allen Ginsberg · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141190167
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This collection brings together the famous poems of Allen Ginsberg, an icon of the beat generation. It includes 'Howl', an apocalyptic poem that was the subject of an obscenity trial in 1956, as well as 'Kaddish', a lament for his deceased mother, 'America', a scathing critique of his country, and 'Mescaline', a confessional poem. These dark, ecstatic, and rhapsodic poems demonstrate why Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the 20th century.
Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions.
