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Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg

Paperback | Pages: 119 pages

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Original Title:	Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
ISBN:	0141190167 (ISBN13: 9780141190167)
Edition Language:	English

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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.

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Title	:	Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
Author	:	Allen Ginsberg
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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

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You should all read 'Howl' and then you should all listen to it read by Ginsberg. Part of the beginning of what was to become the modern spoken word movement, this apocalyptic epic SOUNDS amazing. The pacing is on point: half runaway-subway-cart, half meander-through-jazz-clubs and the imagery, of course, is desperately crazy. The collection as a whole was an interesting read. I rushed through the laborious 'Kaddish', but turns out it's the one that's haunting me most. Special mention to the

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.

I didn't get along with all of the poems in here, but I still really enjoyed and appreciated it.I love Howl, it's so expressive and haunting and deserves its praise (especially part II!! woah!). By far my favourite was Death to Van Gogh's Ear !! what a beast of a poem

I was surprised to end up by giving this one a "five". Anguished, rhythmic stream of consciousness poetry of Ginsberg is transfixing, indeed confronting at times, but emanates his life long search for elusive fundamental truths, free of conventional structural impositions. Despite Allen's "in-your-face" linguistic unconventionality, the structure of some of the verses has an unmistakeable heritage in Hebrew rhythmic, repetitive poetry .... and both are concerned with great, impenetrable

Poor dead flower? when did you forget you were a flower? when did you look at your skin and decide you were an impotent dirty old locomotive? I need to read this again in a few years.

Ginsberg is a legend. Perhaps at times he rambles, but his rambles are of a wonderful quality and force one to feel so intensely. I haven't felt emotion like this for a long while; I require new experience.

Among the few times I've read poetry that didn't feel like prose distorted, but prose refined, purified and concentrated. "The message is: Widen the area of consciousness."