Allen Ginsberg

Kerouac y Ginsberg, los miembros más celebres de la Generación Beat, estuvieron unidos por una profunda amistad. Extraordinarias por su alcance, su calidad y su intimidad, sus cartas constituían un activo laboratorio en el que compartian y discutian sin cesar ideas en evolucion constante, se recomendaban libros, analizaban autores y movimientos literarios, intercambiaban poemas, comentaban los borradores de las nuevas obras... Quizas una de las ultimas grandes correspondencias a cuatro manos del siglo XX, revela no solo los procesos creativos de dos maestros, sino que es tambien el retrato incomparable de los dos escritores que encabezaron el movimiento cultural y artistico que definio a toda una generacion. "Un fascinante registro de las aventuras de Ginsberg y Kerouac... que se articula como una obra maestra Beat" (The Village Voice). "Una coleccion de cartas que se lee como una novela de Dostoievski" (The New York Observer). "Puro oro literario" (San Francisco Chronicle).

El famoso texto de Ginsberg, censurado en su época y posteriormente modelo para nuevas generaciones, se presenta ahora como una magnética e inquietante novela gráfica Beat. Publicado por primera vez

25 de agosto de 1968 tuvo lugar en Chicago la Convención del Partido Demócrata. Cinco mil personas entre anarquistas, pacifistas, hippies, comunistas, exponentes de la nueva Izquierda, radicales, militantes negros, llegaron a la ciudad y se acamparon...

Allen Ginsberg es el gran protagonista de la beat generation y la voz profética del grupo. Su capacidad visionaria para proponer al lector un intercambio de honradez y sensibilidad es extraordinaria y sumamente valiosa tanto en su poesia como en s vida.

''I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked'' Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This volume brings together the poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counter-culture. They include the apocalyptic ''Howl'', which became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956; the moving lament for his dead mother, ''Kaddish' the searing indictment of his homeland, ''America' and the confessional ''Mescaline''. Dark, ecstatic and rhapsodic, they show why Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. ''He avoids nothing but experiences it to the hilt'' William Carlos Williams

This is the only volume to bring together all of Allen Ginsberg's published verse in its entirety, celebrating half a century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets. Presented chronologically, it sets Ginsberg's verse against the story of his extraordinary life: from his most famous landmark works "Howl" and "Kaddish" to the poems of "White Shroud" and "Cosmopolitan Greetings", and on to his later writings such as the caustically funny "Death and Fame", the provocative "New Democracy Wish List" and the elegiac "Things I'll Not Do (Nostalgia)".Ginsberg, 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. Also containing illustrations by Ginsberg's artist friends, illuminating notes to the poems, original prefaces and photographs, this is the essential record of one of the most influential voices in twentieth century poetry.

Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish," a poem about the death of his mother, Naomi, is one of his major works. This special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kaddish and Other Poems features an illuminating afterword by Ginsberg biographer Bill Morgan, along with previously unpublished photographs, documents, and letters relating to the composition of the poem.

Visionary poet Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential cultural and literary figures of the 20th century, his face and political causes familiar to millions who had never even read his poetry. And yet he is a figure that remains little understood, especially how a troubled young man became one of the intellectual and artistic giants of the postwar era. He never published an autobiography or memoirs, believing that his body of work should suffice. The Essential Ginsberg attempts a more intimate and rounded portrait of this iconic poet by bringing together for the first time his most memorable poetry but also journals, music, photographs and letters, much of it never before published.

Allen Ginsberg recitó y cantó su poesía (y la de William Blake) en el Círculo de Bellas Artes el 14 de diciembre de 1993. Tenía, pues, 67 años y se trataba de su primera lectura en España, si bien no era la primera vez que pisaba nuestro pais. La presente edicion de aquel recital en un formato conjunto de libro y disco rescata una de las mas jubilosas celebraciones poeticas que se han dado en Madrid estas ultimas decadas. Sin duda, la sabiduria y la disposicion del propio poeta fueron las razones estelares de que sucediera asi. Allen Ginsberg, que sobreviviria cuatro años al recital, vino al Circulo dispuesto a una lectura categorica, cargada de resortes orales y musicales y plena de complicidad: no solo recito sus textos, sino que en algunos casos los canto y les puso musica, acompañandose de un pequeño armonio o con la percusion de unas claves. La edicion se completa con dos textos mas: una presentacion a cargo del poeta y critico Jose Maria Parreño, que hace una desenfadada semblanza de Ginsberg entreverada con algunas peripecias que rodearon la lectura, y un epilogo de Gary Snyder, uno de los grandes poetas en activo en lengua inglesa, amigo y coetaneo del autor de Aullido, que aporta un calido ensayo titulado "Allen Ginsberg cruza al otro lado". La inclusion de este texto aporta una evocacion personal de los meses que precedieron a la desaparicion de un maestro de la poesia del siglo veinte, que años antes habia dejado en Madrid la huella que hoy recuperamos.

First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" is a prophetic masterpiece--an epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obscenity charges to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. Now a major motion picture, starring James Franco, Howl was directed by two-time Academy Award-winners Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, who hired Eric Drooker to animate the poem. Howl: A Graphic Novel visualizes the poem--stanza by stanza--with full color animation art Drooker designed for the film. [Printed on recycled paper with Soy Ink, this luxury art book has french flaps and spot gloss on cover.]

Great strange visionary poems by the author of Howl, "in the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century . . ." In the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century suffering anguish of separation from my own body and its natural infinity of feeling its own self one with all self, I instinctively seeking to reconstitute that blissful union which I experience so rarely. I took it to be supernatural an gave it holy Name thus made hymn laments of longing and litanies of triumphancy of Self over mind-illusion mechano-universe of un-feeling Time in which I saw my self my own mother and my very nation trapped desolate our worlds of consciousness homeless and at war except for the original trembling of bliss in breast and belly of every body that nakedness rejected in suits of fear that familiar defenseless living hurt self which is myself same as all others abandoned scared to own unchanging desire for each other. These poems almost unconscious to confess the beatific human fact, the language intuitively chosen as in trance & dream, the rhythms rising on breath from belly thru breast, the hymn completed in tears, the movement of the physical poetry demanding and receiving decades of life while chanting Kaddish the names of Death in many worlds the self seeking the Key to life found at last in our self.