Book Description
The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg reveals in fascinating detail the man and the artist through the eyes of a Ginsberg intimate—a fellow poet and admirer, a man who shares the ecumenical outlook and resolute social conscience of one our century's most popular and controversial literary figures. Sanders leads us chronologically through history as witnessed, reflected, and created by Ginsberg, creating a dazzling journalistic and poetic biography of a man, an artist, and his passionately unique world view.
About the Author
Ed Sanders is a poet and journalist. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, he is the author of many books of poetry, most recently 1968: A History in Verse and America: A History in Verse. His chronicle of Charles Manson and associates, The Family, was a national bestseller.
Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg: A Narrative Poem FROM THE PUBLISHER
Ginsberg's powerful and unflinchingly honest poetry empowered the counterculture of the 50s and 60s along with his memorable persona and his messages of peace and love. In this biographical narrative poem, Ed Sanders, a Ginsberg contemporary and friend, and one of the Beats' favorite sons, charts a path through what he calls the "Forest Ginsberg."" "An unsentimental elegy, an epic tribute, a dramatic documentary portrait, The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg reveals in detail the man and the artist through the eyes and in the voice of a Ginsberg intimate, a fellow poet and admirer, a man who shares the ecumenical outlook and resolute social conscience of one of our century's most popular and controversial literary figures. Sanders leads us chronologically through history as witnessed, reflected and created by Ginsberg, introducing us to Ginsberg's friends and foes and the luminaries and common men and women alike that populated his world. Ed Sanders's poem is a journalistic biography of a man and his passionately unique world view.
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