Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry, Politics, Consciousness [Hardcover]

Allen Ginsberg (Author), Gordon Ball (Editor)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 269 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company; 1st edition (1974)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070232857
• ISBN-13: 978-0070232853
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #461,887 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Allen Ginsberg was born in 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, a son of Naomi Ginsberg and lyric poet Louis Ginsberg. In 1956 he published his signal poem, Howl, one of the most widely read and translated poems of the century. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, awarded the medal of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French minister of culture in 1993, and co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute, the first accredited Buddhist college in the Western world, Allen Ginsberg died on April 5, 1997.