Allen Ginsberg

Collected Poems 1947-1997

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Here, for the first time, is a volume that gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half century of brilliant work from one of America's great poets. The chief figure among the Beats, Ginsberg changed the course of American poetry, liberating it from closed academic forms with the creation of open, vocal, spontaneous, and energetic postmodern verse in the tradition of Walt Whitman, Guillaume Apollinaire, Hart Crane, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams. Ginsberg's classics Howl, Reality Sandwiches, Kaddish, Planet News, and The Fall of America led American (and international) poetry toward uncensored vernacular, explicit candor, the ecstatic, the rhapsodic, and the sincere—all leavened by an attractive and pervasive streak of common sense. Ginsberg's raw tones and attitudes of spiritual liberation also helped catalyze a psychological revolution that has become a permanent part of our cultural heritage, profoundly influencing not only poetry and popular song and speech, but also our view of the world.
The uninterrupted energy of Ginsberg's remarkable career is clearly revealed in this collection. Seen in order of composition, the poems reflect on one another; they are not only works but also a work. Included here are all the poems from the earlier volume Collected Poems 1947–1980, and from Ginsberg's subsequent and final three books of new poetry: White Shroud, Cosmopolitan Greetings, and Death & Fame. Enriching this book are illustrations by Ginsberg's artist friends; unusual and illuminating notes to the poems, inimitably prepared by the poet himself; extensive indexes; as well as prefaces and various other materials that accompanied the original publications.
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901 printed pages
Original publication
2010
Publication year
2010
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Quotes

  • Natasha Klimchukhas quoted6 years ago
    Reality is a question
    of realizing how real
    the world is already.
  • Tania Udalovahas quoted8 years ago
    Psalm I
    These psalms are the workings of the vision haunted mind and not that reason which never changes.
    I am flesh and blood, but my mind is the focus of much lightning.
    I change with the weather, with the state of my finances, with the work I do, with my company.
    But truly none of these is accountable for the majestic flaws of mind which have left my brain open to hallucination.
    All work has been an imitation of the literary cackle in my head.
    This gossip is an eccentric document to be lost in a library and rediscovered when the Dove descends.
    New York, February 1949
  • Milladinhas quoted9 years ago
    ah, Carl, while you are not safe I am not safe, and now you’re really in the total animal soup of time—

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