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| Title | : | Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems |
| Author | : | Allen Ginsberg |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 119 pages |
| Published | : | February 26th 2009 by Penguin Classics (first published 1956) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Classics. Literature. 20th Century. American. LGBT. Fiction. Modern Classics |
Allen Ginsberg
Paperback | Pages: 119 pages Rating: 4.03 | 1856 Users | 141 Reviews
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Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This new collection brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counterculture. 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.Itemize Books Conducive To Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
| Original Title: | Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems |
| ISBN: | 0141190167 (ISBN13: 9780141190167) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.03 From 1856 Users | 141 ReviewsWrite Up About Books Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night, Allen Ginsberg, HowlIve read Howl before, but just that poem, not this entire collection. Ive always found poetry collections hard to review. With Ginsberg, you can see snatches of absolute genius, word phrasings youdDisturbing, intuitive in its imagery, extremely dense, and unfiltered to the level of brutality. It took me quite some time to get through these mere 120 pages. To say I enjoyed it would be not to the point. I was stirred by Ginsberg's poetry in corners of the mind I'm not wholly comfortable around - it was an... interesting journey.
Words cannot describe what I felt reading Ginsberg's poems. It's very rare that words manage to suck the air out of my lungs by punching me in my gut so fucking hard that I want to scream, cry and laugh at the same time. Ginsberg's poems are real. Ginsberg's poems are raw. Ginsberg's poems are a lot to handle; maybe even too much at times. I am always fascinated by writers who break taboos; writers who are unapologeticly themselves. Writers who manage to capture split seconds and the zeitgeist
Raw, blasphemous and psychedelic. Howl is brilliant, Kaddish is majestic beyond words and the rest fluctuate from good to what-the-fuck-did-I-just-read. Ginsberg should be more famous in Greece.
Too fucking good!
Although some beautiful ideas and visuals, I found it too disjointed for my taste. Most of the time it felt I was reading the incoherent ramblings of a terribly high dude on some serious drugs, which is most probably what actually happened.
Read this about five years ago but saw it on my bookshelf and it got me thinking about it again. Howl, his most famous poem, is obviously amazing and is dark and thought provoking and surreal in places but I thought the poem Kaddish was somehow even better! It's even darker, is very sad and is about his Mum and her mental illness and her going in and out of asylums and his anguish over it all- bleak but brilliant. The rest of the poems don't come close to those two but are still very good and
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