内容简介
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.
作者简介
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was an American poet, best known for
the poem Howl (1956), celebrating his friends of the Beat
Generation and attacking what he saw as the destructive forces of
materialism and conformity in the United States at the time. He was
inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, was awarded
the medal of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the
French Minister of Culture, won the National Book Award for The
Fall of America, and was a co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of
Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute, the first accredited
Buddhist college in the Western world.