The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg: A Narative Poem - Softcover

Sanders, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590202368 ISBN 13: 9781590202364

Publisher: The Overlook Press, 2009

Synopsis

The acclaimed chronicle of the life of the great beat poet, finally in paperback
Allen Ginsberg: poet, activist, visionary, soul of the Beat Generation. For many, Ginsberg's powerful and unflinchingly honest poetry empowered the counterculture of the 50s and 60s. In this unsentimental documentary portrait, the celebrated poet Ed Sanders, a Ginsberg contemporary and friend, charts a path through what he calls Forest Ginsberg, the life and times of one of our century's most popular and controversial literary figures.

About this title

About the Author:

EDWARD SANDERS is a poet and journalist. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, he is the author of many books of poetry and of the bestseller The Family. He lives with his wife in Woodstock, New York.

Review:

ANothing but the facts, man, in great detail, and poetry is in the detail (the concrete is most poetic, Allen always said)AA fine journalist gets it all down, without catering to his subject, and here Allen rises from it, alive in our minds and hearts.A ALawrence Ferlinghetti
AEd SandersAs intimate and detailing biography gives us a primary record of all the significant particulars of this endearing manAs extraordinary life.AARobert Creeley

"Nothing but the facts, man, in great detail, and poetry is in the detail (the concrete is most poetic, Allen always said)...A fine journalist gets it all down, without catering to his subject, and here Allen rises from it, alive in our minds and hearts."-Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"Ed Sanders's intimate and detailing biography gives us a primary record of all the significant particulars of this endearing man's extraordinary life."-Robert Creeley

About this edition

• Publisher: The Overlook Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1590202368
• ISBN 13: 9781590202364
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256