Bücher von Allen Ginsberg

Visionary poet Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential cultural and literary figures of the 20th century, his face and political causes familiar to millions who had never even read his poetry. And yet he is a figure that remains little understood, especially how a troubled young man became one of the intellectual and artistic giants of the postwar era. He never published an autobiography or memoirs, believing that his body of work should suffice. The Essential Ginsberg attempts a more intimate and rounded portrait of this iconic poet by bringing together for the first time his most memorable poetry but also journals, music, photographs and letters, much of it never before published.

Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of his finest work published in Penguin Modern Classics, including 'Howl', whose vindication at an obscenity trial was a watershed moment in twentieth-century history.'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked'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.Allen Ginsberg (1926-97) 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.If you enjoyed Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems, you might like Jack Kerouac's On the Road, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'The poem that defined a generation'Guardian on 'Howl''He avoids nothing but experiences it to the hilt'William Carlos Williams

'Ginsberg could terrify the authorities ... a literary pioneer' - The New York TimesBeat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. The apocalyptic 'Howl' became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956 - its vindication was a watershed moment in twentieth-century history. Dark, ecstatic and rhapsodic, 'Howl' shows why Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.Howl and Other Poems is a collection of Ginsberg's finest work, including 'Howl', one of the principal works of the Beat Generation as well as 'A Supermarket in California', 'Transcription of Organ Music', 'Sunflower Sutra', 'America', 'In the Baggage Room at Greyhound"', and some of his earlier works. "Ginsberg is both tragic and dynamic, a lyrical genius ... probably the single greatest influence on American poetical voice since Whitman." - Bob Dylan 'Allen is ever-present in his words. His words are him - they're like a living embodiment of him - they have his energy, his philosophy, his playfulness, his sexuality and his compassion. Not only did he give us love and poetry, he reminded us of our civic duty to use our voice.' - Patti SmithAbout the AuthorAllen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1926, the son of Naomi Ginsberg and the well-known lyric poet/teacher Louis Ginsberg. As a Columbia College student in the 1940s he began close friendships with William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso and Jack Kerouac. He became associated with the Beat movement and the 1950s San Francisco Renaissance poets Gary Snyder and Michael McClure. After jobs as a labourer, market researcher and sailor, Ginsberg published his first volume, Howl and Other Poems, in 1956. Howl overcame censorship trials to become one of the most widely read poems of the century, translated into twenty-eight languages. In 1965 Ginsberg was, in a matter of weeks, crowned Prague May King, expelled by the Czech police and placed on the FBI's Dangerous Security list. Though he travelled widely, teaching in India, China, and Western and Eastern Europe, his home for most of his life was New York's Lower East Side.A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Allen Ginsberg was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French Minister of Culture in 1993, honoured as Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Poet 1994 and co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute, the first accredited Buddhist college in the western world.Ginsberg died in New York on 5 April 1997, eight days after being diagnosed seriously ill. He continued to write until the last few days of his life and died surrounded by his friends and family. One of the last of the 'Beats', he embodied the surprising, experimental and sometimes lunatic spirit of the artistic and literary scene he was so much a part of. On his death James Campbell wrote of him in the Guardian, 'Allen Ginsberg was the exemplary avant-garde figure of the post-war world. In verse, in politics, in his own intimate life - there was no room for a 'private life' - Ginsberg resisted and disdained the orthodox, the social lie. Few people have done as much to make non-conformism respectable in our time as he did.'

Assembled by Allen Ginsberg, Selected Poems 1947-1995 is the definitive collection of the best works of one of the most influential and revolutionary poets of the twentieth century.Allen Ginsberg, famous for helping catalyze the Beat Generation, wrote poetry for more than fifty years. His innovative verse and provocative attitudes of spiritual, political, and sexual liberation inspired countless poets, musicians, and visual and performance artists worldwide, and helped shape several generations' views of the world.Selected Poems 1947-1995 commemorates Ginsberg's brilliant career as one of America's most distinguished poets. Here are well-known masterpieces such as the lyric "Howl" and the narrative "Kaddish" -- classic works of American literature -- as well as more recent gems, including the long dream poem "White Shroud," the visionary "After Lalon," and the political rock lyric "The Ballad of the Skeletons," a song he recorded in 1996 with a stellar band that included Philip Glass, Lenny Kaye, and Paul McCartney.

Poems by a modern master. "[Ginsberg's] powerful mixture of Blake, Whitman, Pound, and Williams, to which he added his own volatile, grotesque, and tender humor, has assured him a memorable place in modern poetry."-- Helen Vendler

»Amerikas Ikone« DIE ZEITDie wichtigsten Gedichte - neu übersetzt  Allen Ginsberg, die große Leitfigur der Beat Generation, gehört zu den bedeutendsten Dichtern der US-Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Doch gleich sein erstes Gedicht »Howl« (»Geheul«) wurde verboten - so direkt hatte noch niemand über Drogen, Sex und Politik geschrieben. Wie sehr es sich lohnt, sich neu mit diesem großen poète maudit und seiner Lyrik zu beschäftigen, zeigen die Neuübersetzungen namhafter Lyrikerinnen und Lyriker, die den Originalen treu bleiben und zugleich vielschichtige Perspektiven auf ein Werk bieten, das die Welt verändert hat.  Neu übersetzt von Carolin Callies, Nora Gomringer, Alexander Graeff, Durs Grünbein, Caroline Hartge, Jonis Hartmann, Stefan Hyner, Anja Kampmann, Michael Kellner, Odile Kennel, Sibylle Klefinghaus, Georg Leß, Hans-Ulrich Möhring, Arne Rautenberg, Monika Rinck, Jürgen Schmidt, Clemens J. Setz, Michelle Steinbeck, Anke Stelling, Sibylla Vricic Hausmann und Ron Winkler.

»Amerikas Ikone« DIE ZEIT - Allen Ginsbergs wichtigste Gedichte und Prosastücke. Allen Ginsberg war die große Leitfigur der Beat Generation. Mit seinen Werken sorgte er immer wieder für Kontroversen, indem er Drogen, Sex und Politik direkt thematisierte. Wie konnte aus einem gepeinigten jungen Mann einer der einflussreichsten Intellektuellen und Künstler der Nachkriegszeit werden? Ginsberg hat keine Autobiographie veröffentlicht in der Überzeugung, dass sein Werk alles Wesentliche enthält. Namhafte deutsche Lyriker:innen nähern sich dem Dichter nun, indem sie seine Texte neu und zum Teil erstmals übersetzen. Das vielschichtige Porträt, das sich so zusammensetzt, kann nicht alle Lebenswidersprüche auflösen, aber dem bisherigen Bild neue Facetten hinzufügen. Vor allem zeigt es, wie sehr es sich lohnt, sich neu mit Ginsberg und seinem herausragenden Werk zu beschäftigen. Die Gedichte werden neu übersetzt von Carolin Callies, Nora Gomringer, Alexander Graeff, Durs Grünbein, Caroline Hartge, Jonis Hartmann, Stefan Hyner, Anja Kampmann, Michael Kellner, Odile Kennel, Sibylle Klefinghaus, Georg Leß, Hans-Ulrich Möhring, Arne Rautenberg, Monika Rinck, Clemens J. Setz, Jürgen Schmidt, Michelle Steinbeck, Anke Stelling, Sibylla Vricic Hausmann und Ron Winkler. Die Prosa liegt erstmals auf Deutsch vor, übersetz und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Michael Kellner. Mit bislang unveröffentlichten Fotos zum 25. Todestag des Dichters am 5. April 2022.

»Amerikas Ikone« DIE ZEIT - Allen Ginsbergs wichtigste Prosastücke, erstmals auf Deutsch. Allen Ginsberg war die große Leitfigur der Beat Generation. Mit seinen Werken sorgte er immer wieder für Kontroversen, indem er Drogen, Sex und Politik direkt thematisierte. Wie konnte aus einem gepeinigten jungen Mann einer der einflussreichsten Intellektuellen und Künstler der Nachkriegszeit werden? Ginsberg hat keine Autobiographie veröffentlicht in der Überzeugung, dass sein Werk alles Wesentliche enthält. Michael Kellner, der Allen Ginsberg selbst kannte, hat die wichtigsten Prosatexte in diesem Band zusammengestellt. Das vielschichtige Porträt, das sich so zusammensetzt, kann nicht alle Lebenswidersprüche auflösen, aber dem bisherigen Bild neue Facetten hinzufügen. Vor allem zeigt es, wie sehr es sich lohnt, sich neu mit Ginsberg und seinem herausragenden Werk zu beschäftigen. Die Prosa liegt erstmals auf Deutsch vor, übersetzt und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Michael Kellner. Mit bislang unveröffentlichten Fotos zum 25. Todestag des Dichters am 5. April 2022.

Allen Ginsbergs berühmtes Gedicht »Das Geheul« über das Amerika der 50er Jahre, typographisch gestaltet von Klaus Detjen.Einen Platz im Leben zu finden«, diese Zeile von Allen Ginsberg in seinen »Notizbüchern« mag ein Aspekt seines Schreibens gewesen sein, denn sprechen die Zeilen in seinem »Geheul« nicht von einem verzweifelten Suchen nach Sinn? Gleichzeitig und mit größter Wucht eröffnen sie uns die ganze Hoffnungslosigkeit, Trauer und Wut über sein Amerika der 50er Jahre. Ginsbergs berühmtes Gedicht »Das Geheul«, erschienen erstmals 1956, wurde zum Kultbuch seiner Generation. Kritiker und Literaturkenner bezeichnen es gar als »das« Gedicht der Beat Generation. Im Buch ist der Text von zwei gra¿schen Suiten gerahmt; die hier entwickelten Collagen aus einer Outlinegrotesk und kraftvollen Gra¿ken spiegeln den Verlauf des Gedichts. Fragmente dominieren den visuellen Anteil der Collagen im vorderen gra¿schen Teil, während im hinteren Part die Strukturen oft zu bildlich konkreten, raumgreifenden Doppelseiten anwachsen.

From his conversation with the conservative William F. Buckley on PBS to his testimony at the Chicago Seven trial to his passionate riffs on Cezanne, Blake, Whitman, and Pound, the interviews collected in Spontaneous Mind, chronologically arranged and in some cases previously unpublished, were conducted throughout Allen Ginsberg's long career. From the late 1950s to the mid-1990s, Ginsberg speaks frankly about his life, his work, and major events, allowing us to hear once again the impassioned voice of one of the most influential literary and cultural figures of our time.

William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called 'Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be 'the final fix'. In The Yage Letters - a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel - he journeys through South America, writing to his friend Allen Ginsberg about his experiments with the strange drug, using it to travel through time and space, to derange his senses - the perfect drug for the author of the wild decentred books that followed. Years later, Ginsberg writes back as he follows in Burroughs' footsteps, and the drug worse and more profound than he had imagined.