The first collection of letters between the two leading figures of the Beat movement. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg are the most celebrated names of the Beat Generation, linked together not only by their shared artistic sensibility but also by a deep and abiding [...]
English; Paperback / Softback
Released: 28.06.2011 / Delivery time: 1-3 weeks (not available at short notice)
A tour guide of America for fans of the Beat Generation, illustrated with photos by Allen Ginsberg.
English; Paperback / Softback
Released: 22.03.2011 / Delivery time: 3-5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
This inspirational gift book is an unforgettable collection of poems recommended by such celebrities as Allen Ginsberg and Isabella Rossellini, and handed down from one generation to the next. Proceeds from the sale of Poems for Life will be donated to the Women's [...]
English; Hardback
Released: 2011 / Delivery time: 3-5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
Collects two hundred letters exchanged by the celebrated Beat generation writers to offer insight into their abiding friendship and artistic views, in a volume that spans the period from Ginsberg's Columbia education until shortly before Kerouac's death.
English; Hardback
Release: 08.07.2010, delayed / Delivery time: Pre-Order (Article not released yet)
A special 50th anniversary edition, with an illuminating afterward by Bill Morgan, family photos, paintings, documents and letters.
English; Paperback / Softback
Released: 18.04.2011 / Delivery time: 3-5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
The famous poem that began a major censorship trial. Illustrated with stills from the computer animation that was included in the 2010 movie by the same name.
Intends to attack what the author saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States at the time of Beat movement, and takes on issues of sex, drugs and race, simultaneously creating what would become the poetic anthem for US counterculture.
Es ist nur einem glücklichen Zufall zu verdanken, dass die Briefe, in denen sich die großen Helden der Beat-Literatur, Kerouac und Ginsberg, ausgetauscht haben, noch erhalten sind. Allein der Umfang der Korrespondenz ist bemerkenswert; außergewöhnlich aber ist die Intimität [...]
Es ist ein Schatz der Poesie, ein Projekt der Superlative, ein Stelldichein diverser Pulitzerpreisträger: Die Gedichtauswahl der 100 Lyriker/Innen umspannt einen Entstehungszeitraum eines ganzen Jahrhunderts, von 1868-1968. 100 Jahre, in der sich die amerikanische Lyrik [...]
A collection of works of a poet who as chief figure among the Beats, fomented a social and political revolution, yet his groundbreaking verse also changed the course of American poetry with its freewheeling spontaneity, rawness, honesty and energy. It features works such as [...]
English; Paperback / Softback
Released: 20.04.2009 / Delivery time: New edition pending, date of publication unknown
Written by a beat movement icon and visionary poet who broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse, this book presents a collection of his famous poems. It includes the apocalyptic "Howl", which became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published [...]
A mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel.
Allen Ginsberg kept journals throughout his entire life, beginning at the age of 11. The journals detail the inner thoughts of the awkward boy from New Jersey, who would become the major poet and spokesperson of the literary phenomenon called the Beat Generation. This work [...]
English; Paperback / Softback
Released: 27.03.2008 / Delivery time: 3-5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
Allen Ginsberg es, además de uno de los mejores poetas del siglo xx, miembro del triunvirato indiscutible de la Generación Beat junto con Jack Kerouac y William S. Burroughs. Icono de la contracultura, encabezó un movimiento que alteró para siempre el panorama literario y [...]
Spanish; Paperback / Softback
Released: 2012 / Delivery time: at least 4 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
Cette partie des journaux de Ginsberg (commencés en 1945) correspond au séjour qu'il fait en Inde en 1962-1963 avec son ami, le poète Peter Orlovsky. Il a fallu cinq années à l'auteur pour rendre publiables, en les remaniant, ces notes de carnets, ébauches de textes, [...]