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Allen Ginsberg: A Biography

Allen Ginsberg: A Biography

by Barry Miles (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

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Synopsis

In part thanks to early friendships with renegades such as Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and William Burroughs, and his publication of the electrifying and brilliant 'Howl', Allen Ginsberg occupies a significant and enduring position in American literature. Following Ginsberg's death in 1997, Barry Miles, drawing both on his long friendship with the poet and on Ginsberg's journals and correspondence, thoroughly updated and revised his immensely readable account of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary poets.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 640
 Edition: 2nd Revised edition
 Publisher: Virgin Books
Published: 27 Jul 2000
ISBN 10: 0753504863
ISBN 13: 9780753504864
Book Overview: Barry Miles is also the author of biographies of Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

Media Reviews
This is a scholarly work and also much fun.
-- Guardian

Will surely be consulted as an Ur-text for decades to come. Read it at the end, along with Ginsberg's fifteen best books, and you'll know why he matters.
--Michael Horowitz, Sunday Times

Skilfully evokes the poet's childhood, authoritatively expresses his opinions on sundry matters of later life and work, gives him his due as lifeforce of youthful rebellion and in the 1960s counter. Read it; you'll enjoy yourself.
--Paul Berman, New York Times

Concentrating on the simultaneity of the public and private in Ginsberg's life, Miles gives us a richer insight into his poetic value -- and a better read -- than many a tight-lipped critical filleting.
-- Saul Frampton , Time Out
Author Bio
Barry Miles is the critically acclaimed author of Charles Bukowski, Hippie, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now, William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible, and Zappa.