Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

Resumen del libro

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).

Biografía del autor

p strong Andrés Neuman /strong (1977) nació y pasó su infancia en Buenos Aires. Hijo de músicos argentinos exiliados, se trasladó con su familia a Granada, en cuya universidad fue profesor de literatura latinoamericana. Dedicado a la poesía desde sus inicios, es autor es autor, entre otros, de los poemarios em El tobogán /em , em Mística abajo /em , em No sé por qué /em , em Vivir de oído /em (La Bella Varsovia, 2018), em Isla con madre /em (La Bella Varsovia, 2023) y la antología em Casa fugaz. Poesía 1998-2018 /em (La Bella Varsovia, 2020). Recibió los premios Federico García Lorca, Antonio Carvajal e Hiperión de Poesía. Fue finalista del Premio Herralde con su primera novela, em Bariloche /em , a la que le siguieron em La vida en las ventanas /em , em Una vez Argentina /em , em El viajero del siglo /em (Premio Alfaguara y Premio de la Crítica), em Hablar solos /em , em Fractura /em y em Umbilical. /em Ha publicado libros de cuentos como em Alumbramiento /em o em Hacerse el muerto /em ; el diccionario satírico em Barbarismos /em ; el diario de viaje por Latinoamérica em Cómo viajar sin ver /em ; y el tratado de cuerpos no canónicos em Anatomía sensible /em . Obtuvo el Firecracker Award for Fiction, otorgado por la comunidad de revistas, editoriales independientes y librerías de EE. UU., y la Mención Especial del jurado del Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, antecesor del Booker International. Formó parte de la lista Bogotá-39 y fue seleccionado por la revista británica Granta entre los mejores nuevos narradores en español Sus libros están traducidos a 25 lenguas.<br>