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Allen Ginsberg

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"Ginsberg is both tragic and dynamic, a lyric genius, [a] con-man extraordinaire,
and probably the single greatest influence on American poetical voice since Whitman."
— Bob Dylan

Links

Allen Ginsberg catalog at Amazon.com
Allen Ginsberg search at Amazon.com
Allen Ginsberg credits at Internet Movie Database
Allen Ginsberg Trust [official website]
Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards
Allen Ginsberg entry at Wikipedia

'Allen Ginsberg Clearinghouse' fansite
Allen Ginsberg pages at Naropa Institute
Allen Ginsberg page at LitKicks
Allen Ginsberg papers at Stanford University
Allen Ginsbergpage at Poets.org (texts & audio)
German-language Allen Ginsberg fansite
Allen Ginsberg page at 'The Beat Page' (with poems)
PBS 'American Masters' Allen Ginsberg TV special
Allen Ginsberg obituary on C.N.N. 5 April 1997
obituary at Famous Poets & Poems website

Beatnik Film Festival
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Works By Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg catalog at Amazon.com

	"Howl & Other Poems" [1956] Introduction by William Carlos Williams City Lights Books pb [7/91] for $5.95 City Lights Books hardcover [1/96] for $10.36 Fantasy audio CD read by Allen Ginsberg [3/98] for $10.97
	"American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl & The Making of The Beat Generation" [2004] by Jonah Raskin Univ CA Press 8½x5¼ pb [2/2006] for $11.66 Univ CA Press 8¼x6 hardcover [4/2004] for $28.00
	"The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later" [2006] Edited by Jason Shinder FS&G 8x5½ pb [3/2006] for $11.20 FS&G 8½x5¾ hardcover [3/2006] for $22.80
	"Howl For Now: A Celebration of Allen Ginsberg's Epic Protest Poem" [2006] Edited by Simon Warner Route 7½x5 pb [3/2006] for $23.95
	"Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions" [2006] Edited by Barry Miles HarperPerennial 10¾x9 pb [10/2006] for $12.89
	"Howl On Trial: The Battle For Free Expression" [2006] Edited by Bill Morgan & Nancy J. Peters City Lights Publrs 8¼x5½ pb [11/2006] for $11.21 Topeka Bindery 8¾x5¾ library hardcover [11/2006] for $25.05

	"Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960" [1961] City Lights Books pb [7/91] for $8.95
	"Reality Sandwiches, 1953-1960" [1963] City Lights Books pb [6/81] for $8.95
	"Planet News, 1961-1967" [1969] City Lights Books pb [6/71] for $8.95
	"The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971" [1974] City Lights Books pb [12/84] for $8.76
	"White Shroud: Poems, 1980-1985" [1987] HarperCollins pb [11/87] for $13.00 HarperCollins hardcover [8/87] out of print/used Harper & Row hardcover [86] out of print/used
	"Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems, 1986-1992" [1994] HarperPerennial pb [3/95] for $15.00 HarperCollins 9½x6¼ hardcover [5/94] out of print/many used
	"Death and Fame: Last Poems, 1993-1997" [21 poems 1999] Edited by Bob Rosenthal, Peter Hale & Bill Morgan HarperPerennial 9¼x6 pb [2/2000] for $11.21 HarperFlamingo 10x6¾ hardcover [3/99] out of print/used Lumen España Spanish-language 8x5½ pb [5/2001] for $23.25

Collections

	"Illuminated Poems" [24 poems 1996] by Allen Ginsberg, art by Eric Drooker Running Press 10x7½ pb [9/2006] for $14.96 Four Walls Eight Windows 10x7½ pb [5/96] out of print/many used Four Walls Eight Windows 10¼x8 hardcover [5/96] for $35.00
	"Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems, 1947-1997" [2006] from the Ginsberg Estate HarperPerennial 9x6 pb [10/2007] for $16.50 HarperCollins 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2006] for $26.37

"Voice of The Poet: Allen Ginsberg" booklet & CD [2004] Random House audio CD [6/2004] out of prodn/used Twelve poems read/performed in full by Allen Ginsberg at the Knitting Factory in 1995: "A Supermarket In California" [1955]; "After Lalon" [1992]; "Footnote To Howl" [1955]; "Howl" [1955-56]; "My Sad Self" [1958]; "Personals Ad" [1987]; "Plutonium Ode" [1978]; "Sad Dust Glories" [1974]; "Song" [1954]; "Sunflower Mantra" [1955]; "Wales Visitation" [1967]; and "White Shroud" [1983]

"The Allen Ginsberg CD Poetry Collection" booklet & CD [2004] Read by Allen Ginsberg Caedmon audio CD[11/2004] 3 disks & 64-page booklet for $16.50 more than two dozen poems in verse and song, including "A Strange New Cottage In Berkeley"; "A Supermarket In California"; "After Lalon"; "America"; "Charnal Ground"; "City Midnight Junk Strains"; "C’mon Pigs of Western Civilization"; "Don’t Grow Old"; "Father Death Blues"; "Howl"; "Hum Bomb"; "I Am A Victim of Telephone"; "Jahweh and Allah Battle"; "Kaddish"; "Kral Majales"; "Lay Down Your Mountain"; "Many Loves"; "Mind Breaths"; "New Stanzas For Amazing Grace"; "On Neal’s Ashes"; "Personals Ad"; "Plutonian Ode"; "Pull My Daisy"; "Put Down Your Cigarette Don’t Smoke"; "September On Jessore Road"; "Sphincter"; "Sunflower Sutra"; "To Aunt Rose"; "White Shroud"; and "Who Be Kind To"

Works About Allen Ginsberg

	"Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics" [2007] by Tony Trigilio Southern Illinois Univ Press 9¼x6¼ pb [6/2007] for $45.00
	"I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg" [2006] by Bill Morgan Penguin 8¾x6 pb [9/2007] for $12.24 Viking 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/2006] for $19.77
	"Allen Ginsberg: Beat & Pieces - A Complete Story of The Beat Generation" [2005] Text by Fernanda Pivano, photographs by Allen Ginsberg Photology 11¼x8¼ hardcover [11/2005] for $54.75
	"The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg: A Narrative Poem" [2000] by Ed Sanders Overlook Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [8/2000] for $27.95
	"The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs & Corso In Paris, 1957-1963" [2000] by Barry Miles Grove Press pb [7/2001] for $11.20 Grove Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [7/2000] for $17.50
	"Screaming With Joy: The Life of Allen Ginsberg" [1999] by Graham Caveney Broadway Books hardcover [10/99] for $7.98
	"Allen Ginsberg In America" [1969] by Jane Kramer Fromm Intl. 8¼x5¾ pb [10/97] out of print/used Random House hardcover [1/69] out of print/many used

"The Life & Times of Allen Ginsberg" [Feb 1994; re-release Aug 2004] Directed by Jerry Aronson; won IDA Award 1993; includes interviews with Joan Baez, William F. Buckley, Wm. S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary & Norman Mailer, with archive footage of Abbie Hoffman & Jack Kerouac New Yorker Video DVD [7/2007] 2 disks for $30.99 First Run Features color VHS [9/2002] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb • official movie site

Online Texts & Audio
"America" [1956]
"Is About" [from 'The New Yorker' Magazine Oct 1996]
"A Supermarket In California" [1955]  ||  RealAudio version
"Howl" [1956]
Ginsberg poetry at everyDay beat
"Who Runs America" [1974]
"Understand That This Is A Dream" [1963]

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