Wichita Vortex Sutra (PN), 402
Wild Orphan (Howl), 86
Wind mills churn on Windy City’s, 641
Wings Lifted over the Black Pit (Fall), 435
With oil that streaks streets a magic color, 700
With the blue-dark dome old-starred at night, 297
With Virtual impunity Clinton got campaign funds from pink Chinese (D&F), 1119
World Bank Blues (D&F), 1126
World Karma (WS), 913
World world world, 179
Written in My Dream by W. C. Williams (WS), 901
Written on Hotel Napkin: Chicago Futures (MB), 641
Wrote This Last Night (RS), 174
Xmas Gift (MB), 595
Yellow-lit Budweiser signs over oaken bars, 432
Yes all the spiritual groups scandal the shrine room (CG), 984
Yes and It’s Hopeless (MB), 604
yes it’s gone gone gone (D&F), 1106
Yiddishe Kopf (CG), 1012
You Don’t Know It (CG), 943
“You know what I’m saying?” (D&F), 1096
You’ll bare your bones you’ll grow you’ll pray you’ll only know (CG), 966
“You Might Get in Trouble” (PAOTP), 668
Young I drank beer & vomited green bile (WS), 872
Young romantic readers (D&F), 1147
Your electric hair’s beautiful gold as Blake’s Glad Day boy, 729
You said you got to go home & feed your pussycat, 658
Youthful, caressing, boisterous, tender (WS), 900
You used to wear dungarees & blue workshirt, 725
You’ve been coughing for weeks (D&F), 1097
You were here on earth, in cities, 626
About the Author
Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1926, a son of Naomi and lyric poet Louis Ginsberg. As a student at Columbia College in the 1940s, he began a close friendship with William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and Jack Kerouac, and he later became associated with the Beat movement and the San Francisco Renaissance in the 1950s. After jobs as a laborer, sailor, and market researcher, Ginsberg published his first volume of poetry, Howl and Other Poems, in 1956. Howl defeated censorship trials to become one of the most widely read poems of the century, translated into more than twenty-two languages, from Macedonian to Chinese, a model for younger generations of poets from West to East.
Crowned Prague May King in 1965, then expelled by Czech police and simultaneously placed on the FBI’s Dangerous Security list, Ginsberg traveled to and taught in the People’s Republic of China, the Soviet Union, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe, receiving Yugoslavia’s Struga Poetry Festival “Golden Wreath” in 1986.
Ginsberg was a member of 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, was a winner of the National Book Award (for The Fall of America), and was a cofounder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute, the first accredited Buddhist college in the Western world. He died in New York City in 1997.
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ALSO BY ALLEN GINSBERG
POETRY
Howl and Other Poems, 1956
Kaddish and Other Poems, 1961
Empty Mirror, Early Poems, 1961
Reality Sandwiches, 1963
Planet News, 1968
The Fall of America, Poems of These States, 1972
The Gates of Wrath: Rhymed Poems 1948–52, 1973
Iron Horse, 1973
First Blues, 1975
Mind Breaths, Poems 1971–76, 1978
Plutonian Ode, Poems 1977–1980, 1982
Collected Poems 1947–1980, 1984
White Shroud, Poems 1980–1985, 1986
Cosmopolitan Greetings, Poems 1986–1992, 1994
Selected Poems 1947–1995, 1996
Death & Fame: Poems 1993–1997, 1999
PROSE
The Yage Letters (with William Burroughs), 1963
Indian Journals, 1970, 1996
Gay Sunshine Interview (with Allen Young), 1974
Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry, Politics, Consciousness, 1974
Chicago Trial Testimony, 1975
To Eberhart from Ginsberg, 1976
As Ever: Collected Correspondence Allen Ginsberg & Neal Cassady, 1977
Neal Cassady, 1977
Journals Early Fifties Early Sixties 1977, 1993
Composed on the Tongue: Literary Conversations 1967–1977, 1980
Straight Hearts Delight, Love Poems and Selected Letters 1947–1980 (with Peter Orlovsky), 1980
Howl, Original Draft Facsimile, Fully Annotated, 1986, 1995
The Visions of the Great Rememberer (with Visions of Cody, Jack Kerouac), 1993
Journals Mid-Fifties: 1954–1958, 1994
Luminous Dreams, 1997
Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays 1952–1995, 2000
Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958–1996, 2001
PHOTOGRAPHY
Photographs, 1991
Snapshot Poetics, 1993
VOCAL WORDS & MUSIC
First Blues, 1981, 2006
The Lion For Real, 1989, 1996
Howls, Raps & Roars, 1993
Hydrogen Jukebox (opera with Philip Glass), 1993
Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Poems & Songs 1949–1993, 1994
The Ballad of the Skeletons, with Paul McCartney, Philip Glass, 1996
Howl, U.S.A., Kronos Quartet, Lee Hyla score, 1996
Howl & Other Poems, 1998
Wichita Vortex Sutra, 2004
The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Collection, 2004
Allen Ginsberg Reads Kaddish, 2006
Copyright
COLLECTED POEMS 1947–1997. Copyright © 2006 by the Allen Ginsberg Trust.
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Ginsberg, Allen, 1926–1997.
[Poems]
Collected poems, 1947–1997 / Allen Ginsberg.— 1st ed.
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