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Collected Poems 1947-1980 (Paperback)

by Allen Ginsberg (Author)
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  • Paperback: 864 pages
  • Publisher: HarperPerennial; Reprint edition (31 May 1988)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0060914947
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060914943
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,247,890 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Both an American publishing landmark and an immediate classic of international importance."-- "Choice""Ginsberg is both tragic and dynamic, a lyrical genius, con-man extraordinaire and probably the single greatest influence on American poetical voice since Walt Whitman."-- Bob Dylan"Ginsberg is responsible for loosening the breath of American poetry at mid-century . . . Most of all, [he] has demonstrated that there is nothing in American social and erotic reality which cannot find a place [there] . . . [His] powerful mixture of Blake, Whitman, Pound, and Williams, to which he added his own volatile, grotesque, and tender humor, has assured him a memorable place in modern poetry."-- Helen Vendler

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5.0 out of 5 stars Greatest American poet, 3 Jul 1999
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Sure Ginsberg wasn't as revolutionary or academic as TS Eliot or John Ashbery, but Ginsberg successfully intertwined his personal experiences with societies experiences in a way rarely achieved. His most famous poems, "Kaddish" and "Howl," are landmark works, as full of frustration as "The Wasteland," but in a smoother and more beautiful form of poetics. Some of his lesser known later poems like "Kral Majales" again blur the lines between major world happenings and personal experience. Although some of his poetry of the 1970's is a bit too political and unpersonal for my taste, this collection of essential poetry is the most important collection of poetry since Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass." Ginsberg was handed the torch by Blake and Whitman, and formed a poetics that changed America forever.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I love Jack Kerouac and all his friends, 15 April 1999
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I am writing a report for English class and I chose Allen Ginsberg because he was one of the many influences of Jack's life. He was associated with such greats as William Borroughs and Neal Cassady, not to mention Kerouac himself. I am sure, after reading On The Road by Kerouac that I was surely born in the wrong generation and now that I have read Howl by Ginsberg I am that much more sure of the fact that I was a soul from another era. A Buddhisttava from the fourties and fifties. You must read Ginsberg and Kerouac and you will surely understand or you will be totally confused. Remember... "Suppose we suddenly woke up and realized that this and that, ain't really this and that at all."(Darmah Bums)
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5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant, 28 Mar 1999
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Ginsberg's startling, erratic genius is on display in this alternately inspiring and exasperating volume. I give it 5 stars because Ginsberg MUST be read and appreciated; the man changed the face of poetry, as well as pop culture, holding enormous influence over Bob Dylan, who would reinvent rock and roll and help inspire a cultural revolution. Why Ginsberg was not awarded a Nobel is astonishing to me.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Raw, unrestricted . . . Ginsberg's works of beauty
Ginsberg at his best . . . wait . . . when is he not?
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4.0 out of 5 stars GINSBERG = GREAT POET
Allen Ginsberg's poetry is entertaining to read. Of all of his poems in this work, "Hadda be playing on the jukebox" is by far the best. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars overrated
I reacted to the news of Ginsberg's death in much the same way that Edward Fitzgerald reacted to the news of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's death. Ginsberg is overrated. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Words, not howls.
This is the third and probably final poetry review from Wolfie and Kansas, the boonie dogs from Toto, Guam. Read more
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