[New-Poetry] 'Howl' for Ginsberg: The beat poet's work gets new exposure

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'Howl'  for Ginsberg: The beat poet's work gets new exposure
 
By Steve Kowit
October 29, 2006 
 
During the second half of the 20th century, Allen Ginsberg, Beat rhapsodist  
extraordinaire, became America's most public and sensationalized poet. The gay 
 rights movement owes an incalculable debt to his courage, while the Spoken 
Word,  Romantic, street-smart, vatic, wise-ass, good-humored anti-academic 
drift in  American verse is largely the stepchild of his singular brilliance. 
 
Earlier this year, Viking published Bill Morgan's breezy biography, “I  
Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg” (702 pages,  
$29.95), and just this month HarperCollins published “Collected Poems:  1947-1997” 
(1189 pages, $39.95). Next month, De Capo Press will bring out  Ginsberg's 
earliest journals and poems – journals begun in 1937 when, already  charming and 
literate, the poet was all of 11 years old – under the title “The  Book of 
Martyrdom and Artifice” (416 pages, $27.50).  

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