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Allen Ginsberg by Steve Finbow (Paperback, 2012)

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In this new critical biography of Allen Ginsberg, Steve Finbow re-examines the life, poetry and politics of this crucial poet and activist, and discusses his position in American letters and culture. The book moves from the influences of childhood - his poet father and schizophrenic mother - to his meeting with Kerouac and Burroughs in the New York of the late 1940s and the birth of the Beat Generation. From his obsessive need to travel to his experiments in writing, sexuality and altered states of consciousness, we follow Ginsberg to Mexico and his interest in pre-Columbian art and religion; to India and his experiences of Hinduism and Buddhism, and to America and the hippy and punk movements of the 1960s and '70s, witnessing his slow absorption into American academia while remaining an iconoclast and champion of the disenfranchised.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Reaktion Books
ISBN-13
9781780230177
eBay Product ID (ePID)
114917380

Product Key Features

Book Title
Allen Ginsberg
Author
Steve Finbow
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
224 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
200mm
Item Width
130mm

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Steve Finbow
Series Title
Critical Lives
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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