Howl Kaddish and Other PoemsHowl Kaddish and Other Poems

2013-04-04 Allen Ginsberg

This new collection brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counterculture.

Author: Allen Ginsberg

Publisher: Penguin UK

ISBN: 9780141976464

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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

The Sense and Sensibility of MadnessThe Sense and Sensibility of Madness

2018-11-05 Doreen Bauschke

Ginsberg's and his fellow writers' poetry, inspirational in its honesty, not only offered a complete alternative to ... 10 Allen Ginsberg, Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (London: Penguin, The Blessed 'Mad Ones' in Howl and On the Road 89.

Author: Doreen Bauschke

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9789004382381

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This volume explores the sense and sensibility of madness in literature and the arts. As madwomen and madmen venture into unchartered or prohibited terrain, they disrupt normalcy. Yet, they may also unleash the liberatory and transformative potential of unrestrained madness.

Schizo The Liberatory Potential of MadnessSchizo The Liberatory Potential of Madness

2019-07-22 Irina Lyubchenko

17 Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (London: Penguin, 1986), 49. 18 Allen Ginsberg, Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems, 12. Christopher Gair, The Beat Generation, 25. 20 Ibid., 76. Barry Miles, Jack Kerouac, ...

Author: Irina Lyubchenko

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9781848884601

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‘Schizo’: The Liberatory Potential of Madness presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the potential of madness as a force for liberation from societies of control.

Penguin Modern Classics The Complete ListPenguin Modern Classics The Complete List

2011-02-15

HOWL, A GRAPHIC NOVEL Allen Ginsberg HOWL, KADDISH AND OTHER POEMS Allen Ginsberg HUIS CLOS AND OTHERPLAYS Jean-Paul Sartre HUMBOLDT'S GIFT Saul Bellow THE HUNTERS James Salter THE HUSTLER Walter Tevis I, CLAUDIUS Robert Graves I WANT ...

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Publisher: Penguin UK

ISBN: 9780141970318

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'A classic is a book which has never exhausted all it has to say to its readers' from Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino Penguin Modern Classics have been shaping the reading habits of generations since 1961. This 50th anniversary catalogue offers a complete list of all the titles in print across the Modern Classics list, from Chinua Achebe to Stefan Zweig via George Orwell and everything else in between. It also contains Italo Calvino's inspiring essay on what makes a classic a classic.

Life WritingLife Writing

2013-10-10 Sally Cline

Autobiographical poetry Alvarez, Al, ed., The New Poetry, Penguin, London, 1966. Berryman, John, 77 Dream Songs, Faber & Faber, London, 2001. Love and Fame, Faber & Faber, London, 1971. Ginsberg, Allen, Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems, ...

Author: Sally Cline

Publisher: A&C Black

ISBN: 9781472524256

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Life Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing biography, autobiography and memoir. PART 1 explores the history and forms of life writing and the challenges and potential pitfalls of the genre. PART 2 includes tips by bestselling writers: Diana Athill, Alan Bennett, Alain de Botton, Jill Dawson, Millicent Dillon, Margaret Drabble, Geoff Dyer, Victoria Glendinning, Lyndall Gordon, Peter Hayter, Richard Holmes, Michael Holroyd, Kathryn Hughes, Diane Johnson, Hermione Lee, Andrew Lownie, Janet Malcolm, Alexander Masters, Nancy Milford, Blake Morrison, Andrew Morton, Clare Mulley, Jenni Murray, Nicholas Murray, Kristina Olsson, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, Meryle Secrest, Miranda Seymour, Frances Spalding, Hilary Spurling, Boyd Tonkin, Edmund White. PART 3 includes practical advice - from planning, researching and interviewing to writing, pacing and navigating ethical issues.

Hinduism and the 1960sHinduism and the 1960s

2014-11-20 Paul Oliver

(2009) Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems. London: Penguin. Goffman, K. and Joy, D. (2005) Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House. New York: Villard. Graves, R. (2000) Goodbye to All That. London: Penguin.

Author: Paul Oliver

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781472530783

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The West has drawn upon Hinduism on a wide scale, from hatha yoga and meditation techniques, to popular culture in music and fashion, yet the contribution of Hinduism to the counter-culture of the 1960s has not been analysed in full. Hinduism and the 1960s looks at the youth culture of the 1960s and early 1970s, and the way in which it was influenced by Hinduism and Indian culture. It examines the origins of the 1960s counter-culture in the Beat movement of the 1950s, and their interest in Eastern religion, notably Zen. When the Beatles visited India to study transcendental meditation, there was a rapid expansion in interest in Hinduism. Young people were already heading east on the so-called 'Hippie Trail', looking for spiritual enlightenment and an escape from the material lifestyle of the West. Paul Oliver examines the lifestyle which they adopted, from living in ashrams to experimenting with drugs, sexual liberation, ayurvedic medicine and yoga. This engaging book analyses the interaction between Hinduism and the West, and the way in which each affected the other. It demonstrates the ways in which contemporary Western society has learned from the ancient religion of Hinduism, and incorporated such teachings as yoga, meditation and a natural holistic lifestyle, into daily life. Each chapter contains a summary and further reading guidance, and a glossary is included at the end of the book, making this ideal reading for courses on Hinduism, Indian religions, and religion and popular culture.

Screening the AuthorScreening the Author

2019-06-01 Hila Shachar

Kaddish. In Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems, 36–61. London: Penguin. Grace, Nancy M. 2017. The Beats and Literary History: Myths and Realities. In The Cambridge Companion to the Beats, ed. Steven Belletto, 62–76.

Author: Hila Shachar

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783030188504

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This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the contemporary representation of the author on screen. It does this through two main approaches: by looking at how biographies of well-known authors in Western culture have been adapted onto the film and television screen; and by examining the wider preoccupation with the idea of what the ‘author persona’ means in broader economic, cultural, industrial, and ideological terms. Drawing from current debates about the uses of the heritage industry and conventions of the Hollywood biopic and celebrity culture, this book re-frames the analysis of the author on screen in contemporary culture and theorises it under its own unique genre: the ‘literary biopic’. With case studies including adaptations of the biographies and cultural personas of William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, and Allen Ginsberg—to name a few–this book examines how and why the author continues to be a prominent screen and cultural preoccupation.

The Arvon Book of Life WritingThe Arvon Book of Life Writing

2010-08-10 Sally Cline

Burroughs, William, Naked Lunch, 1959 Cooper, James Fenimore, The Last of the Mohicans, Penguin, London, 2007. Dawson, Jill The Great Lover, ... Ginsberg, Allen, Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems, Penguin Modern Classics, London, 2009.

Author: Sally Cline

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781408198803

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Fascinating, wide-ranging, hugely knowledgeable - an indispensable guide and a beguiling education William Boyd Packed with insights and advice - just the inspiration to start writing! Jenny Uglow Everyone has a story This book shows how the best writers tell them, and offers advice on how to tell them yourself. Biographers Sally Cline and Carole Angier teach life writing - an area of creative writing that is exploding in popularity - at the world-famous Arvon Foundation. They have distilled the essence of their popular course on memoir, autobiography and biography into this wide-ranging book. The Arvon Book of Life Writing offers three fascinating ways into the genre. First, reflections on their trade by the authors, exploring its special challenges: truth, memory, ethics, evidence and interpretation. Second, personal tips and tales from 32 top British and American life writers - autobiographers and memoirists, literary, sports and celebrity biographers; plus a critic, an agent, a literary editor, two novelists, and a ghost writer. Third, a practical guide, complete with exercises, designed for use in creative writing courses or by individual writers at home. No other book contains such detailed, witty and professional advice on the genre.

Two Riders Were Approaching The Life Death of Jimi HendrixTwo Riders Were Approaching The Life Death of Jimi Hendrix

2019-11-14 Mick Wall

Faithful (Penguin, 1994) Foulk, Ray and Caroline. ... Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Penguin Modern Classics, 2009) Glatt, John. ... Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music (Palgrave Pivot, 2018) McGowan, David.

Author: Mick Wall

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 9781409160328

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Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York, relying on his latest lovers to support him while he tried to emulate his hero Bob Dylan. A black guy playing white rock music, he wanted to be all things to all people. But when Jimmy arrived in England and became Jimi, the cream of swinging London fell under his spell. It wasn't that Jimi could play with his teeth, play with his guitar behind his back. It was that he could really play. Journeying through the purple haze of idealism and paranoia of the sixties, Jimi Hendrix was the man who made Eric Clapton consider quitting, to whom Bob Dylan deferred on his own song 'All Along the Watchtower', who forced Miles Davis to reconsider his buttoned-down ways - and whose 'Star Spangled Banner' defined Woodstock. And when his star, which had burned so brightly, was extinguished far too young, his legend lived on in the music - and the intrigue surrounding his death. Eschewing the traditional rock-biography format, Two Riders Were Approaching is a fittingly psychedelic and kaleidoscopic exploration of the life and death of Jimi Hendrix - and a journey into the dark heart of the sixties. While the groupies lined up, the drugs got increasingly heavy and the dream of the sixties burned in the fire and blood of the Vietnam War, the assassination of Martin Luther King and the election of President Richard Nixon. Acclaimed writer Mick Wall, author of When Giants Walked the Earth, has drawn upon his own interviews and extensive research to produce an inimitable, novelistic telling of this tale - the definitive portrait of the Guitar God at whose altar other guitar gods worship. Jimi Hendrix's is a story that has been told many times before - but never quite like this.

Time and the MuseumTime and the Museum

2022-07-25 Jen A. Walklate

... on Picturesque Travel; and on Sketching Landscape: to Which Is Added a Poem, on Landscape Painting, London: R. Blamire, 1794 Ginsberg, A., Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems, London: Penguin Modern Classics, 2009 Gray, J. G., ...

Author: Jen A. Walklate

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 9781000624199

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Time and the Museum: Literature, Phenomenology, and the Production of Radical Temporality, is the first explicit in-depth study of the nature of museum temporality. It argues as its departure point that the way in which museums have hitherto been understood as temporal in the scholarship - as spaces of death, othering, memory and history - is too simplistic, and has resulted in museum temporality being reduced to a strange heterotopia (Foucault) - something peculiar, and thus black boxed. However, to understand the ways in which museum temporalities and timescapes are produced, and the consequences that these have upon display and visitor response, is crucial, because time is itself a political entity, with ethical consequence. Time and the Museum highlights something we all experience in some way - time - as a key ethical and political feature of the museum space. Utilizing the fields of literature and phenomenology, the book examines how time is experienced and performed in the public areas of three museum spaces within Oxford - the Ashmolean, Pitt Rivers, and Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Using concepts such as shape, structure, form, presence, absence, authenticity and aura, the book argues for a reconsideration of museum time as something with radical potential and political weight. It will appeal to academics and postgraduate students, especially those engaged in the study of museums, culture, literature and design.