Indispensable Allen Ginsberg

One of the best-known poets and writers of the beat generation, Allen Ginsberg gained international fame not only through his published works, but also through his activities as a human rights activist, who stood up for the sexual revolution, Buddhism and Eastern religions, as well as the opposition to social norms - long before his age. He was also a dynamic leader of war protesters, artists, hippies, musicians, punks and political radicals. This book brings together a mosaic of material that presents the full range of Ginsberg's intellectual landscape. In addition to his poetic masterpieces, The Howl and Kaddish, his lesser-known and hard-to-find songs and prose are included, as well as his personal correspondence with William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, and photographs - taken and captioned by Ginsberg himself - of his friends and associates.