Essays and reviews that trace the changes in Ginsberg's career and in his poetry

First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's Howl is a prophetic masterpiece—an epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obsc

'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, García Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?' Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death,

This is the only volume to bring together all of Allen Ginsberg's published verse in its entirety, celebrating half a century of brilliant work from one of Amer

Discusses the history of sexuality in Britain in the first decades of the twentieth century and also the way it is studied.