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Allen Ginsberg

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Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry, Politics, Consciousness. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.

As Ever: The Collected Correspondence of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady. Berkeley: Creative Arts, c1977.

Collected Poems: 1947-1980. New York: Harper and Row, 1984.

Composed on the Tongue. Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1980.

Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems, 1986-1992. New York: Harper Collins, 1994.

Death and Fame: Poems, 1993-1997. New York: Harper Perennial, 2000.

Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays, 1952-1995. New York: Harper Collins, 2000.

The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971. San Francisco: City Lights, 1972.

Family Business: Selected Letters Between a Father and Son. New York: Bloomsbury, 2001.

First Blues: Rags, Ballads & Harmonium Songs, 1971-74. New York: Full Court Press, 1975.

Howl and Other Poems. San Francisco: City Lights, 1996.

Howl: Original Draft Facsimile. New York: Harper and Row, 1986.

Illuminated Poems. With Eric Drooker. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996.

Indian Journals: March 1962-May 1963: Notebooks, Diary, Blank Pages, Writings. San Francisco: Dave Haselwood/City Lights, 1970.

Journals Mid-Fifties: 1954-1958. New York: Harper Perennial, 1996.

Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties. New York: Grove Press, 1992.

Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960. San Francisco: City Lights, c1961.

Mind Breaths: Poems, 1972-1977. San Francisco: City Lights, 1977.

Planet News, 1961-1967. San Francisco: City Lights, 1968.

Plutonian Ode: Poems, 1977-1980. San Francisco: City Lights, 1982.

Reality Sandwiches: 1953-1960. San Francisco: City Lights, 1963.

Selected Poems 1947-1995. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.

Snapshot Poetics: Allen Ginsberg's Photographic Memoir of the Beat Era. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993.

Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958-1996. New York: Harper Collins, 2001.

White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985. New York: Harper and Row, 1986.

Your Reasons & Blake's System. Madras, India: Hanuman Books, 1988.

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Publications in Periodicals

"Discussion Following Poetry Reading, April 1973, Salem State College." Gone Soft Volume 1, No. 3 Spring 1974: p. 19-32.

"The End" Yugen 7 1961: p. 62.

"from Kaddish." Yugen 5 1959: p. 2-4.

"From New York to San Fran." City Lights Journal Number Three 1966: p. 108-128.

"Kaddish." Big Table 2 Summer 1959: p. 23.

"Kaddish." Big Table 3 1959: p. 7-10.

"Mandala." New Departures Number 2/3 1960: p. 79.

"Message." Big Table 4 Spring 1960: p. 95.

"Notes on Young Poets." Big Table 4 Spring 1960: p. 124-126.

Soundings East. (Kerouac Issue). Volume 2, No. 2, Fall Winter 1979. Salem, MA: Salem State College, 1979. (The issue contains the complete transcript of the 1973 Kerouac Symposium held at Salem State College featuring Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso.)

"Yes and it's Hopeless", "Under the World", "Returning to the Country" New Departures no.7/8, 10/11 1975: p. 66-69.

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Bibliographies


Kraus, Michelle. Allen Ginsberg: An Annotated Bibliography, 1969-1977. Metuchen, Nj: Scarecrow, 1980.

Morgan, Bill. The Response to Allen Ginsberg 1926-1994: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1996.

_____. The Works of Allen Ginsberg 1941-1994: A Descriptive Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995.

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Books About Ginsberg

Caveney, Graham. Screaming with Joy: The Life of Allen Ginsberg. New york: Broadway Books, 1999.

Clark, Tom. The Great Naropa Poetry Wars. Santa Barbara, CA: Cadmus, 1980.

Hyde, Lewis, ed. On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1984.

Kramer, Jane. Allen Ginsberg in America. New York: Random House, 1969; Vintage Books, 1970.

Kramer, Jane. Paterfamilias: Allen Ginsberg in America. London: Gollancz, 1970.

Lardas, John. The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2001.

Merrill, Thomas F. Allen Ginsberg. Rev. ed. Boston: Twayne, 1988.

Miles, Barry. The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963. New York: Grove Press, 2000.

Miles, Barry. Ginsberg: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.

Podhoretz, Norman. Ex-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel & Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer. New York: Free Press, 1999.

Schumacher, Michael. Dharma Lion: A Critical Biography of Allen Ginsberg. New York: St. Martin's, 1994.

Young, Allen. Gay Sunshine Interview. Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1974.

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Articles About Ginsberg


"Big Days for Bards at Bay: Trial Over Howl and Other Poems." Life Sept 9, 1957: p. 105-108.

Carroll, Paul. "Playboy Interview." Playboy April 1969: p. 81-92, 236-244.

Clarke, Gerald. "Checking in With Allen Ginsberg." Esquire April 1973: p. 92-95, 168-170.

Clines, Francis. "Allen Ginsberg: Intimations of Mortality." The New York Times Magazine. November 11, 1984: p.68-71, 88-98.

Kostelanetz, Richard. "Journals: Early Fifties Early Sixties" (Review) The New Republic October 22, 1977: p. 33-35.

Kunen, James. "Poet Allen Ginsberg Publishes His Collected Works and Grows Older, Wiser and Beat-er." People April 22, 1985: p. 106-108.

Lipsky, Jon. "Meeting of the Masters: Allen Ginsberg, Baba Ram Dass & Rinpoche." Free Paper November 14, 1973: p.1, 24-25.

Milward, John. "The Beat Goes On and On." The Boston Globe Magazine December 4, 1988: p. 26-28, 32-44.

Toohey, Francis. "Notes on Ginsberg." Nightfall February 1978: p. 20-21.

Tytell, John. "Conversations With Allen Ginsberg." Partisan Review 41.3 (Summer 1974): p. 253-262.

Young, Allen. "Ginsberg." Gay Sunshine January/February 1973 (Number 16): p. 1, 4-10.

Young, Allen. "The Lives and Loves of Allen Ginsberg." The Real Paper. March 28, 1973: p.8-14.

_____. "Ginsberg II: Peter, Cuba and Bright Empty Hearts." The Real Paper. April 11, 1973: p. 14-18.

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Audiovisual Materials

Allen Ginsberg [video recording]. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities, 1997.

Allen Ginsberg: When the Music Calls, Answer! [video recording] Atlas Video, Inc., c1991.

Holy Soul, Jelly Roll: Poems and Songs, 1949-1993 [sound recording]. Santa Monica, CA: Rhino/Word Beat, 1994.

The Life & Times of Allen Ginsberg: A Film by Jerry Aronson. New York: First Run Icarus Films, 1993.

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Influences on Ginsberg

Williams, William Carlos. The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams. New York: New Directions, 1951.

____________. Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams. New York: Random House, c1954.

____________. Paterson. New York: New Directions, 1992.

____________. Selected Essays of William Carlos Williams. New York: Random House, 1954.

Mariani, Paul. William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked. New York: McGraw-Hill, c1981.

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