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| Original Title: | Death and Fame: Last Poems 1993-97 |
| ISBN: | 0060930837 (ISBN13: 9780060930837) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Allen Ginsberg
Hardcover | Pages: 116 pages Rating: 3.8 | 418 Users | 33 Reviews
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| Title | : | Death and Fame: Last Poems, 1993-1997 |
| Author | : | Allen Ginsberg |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First HarperPerennial Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 116 pages |
| Published | : | February 2nd 2000 by Harper Perennial |
| Categories | : | Poetry. LGBT |
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Allen Ginsberg was one of the bravest and most admired poets of this century. Famous for energizing the Beat Generation literary movement upon his historic encounter with Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs in mid-century New York City, Ginsberg influenced several generations of writers, musicians, and poets. When he died on April 5, 1997, we lost one of the greatest figures of twentieth-century American literary and cultural history. This singular volume of final poems commemorated the anniversary of Ginsberg's death, and includes the verses he wrote in the years shortly before he died.Rating About Books Death and Fame: Last Poems, 1993-1997
Ratings: 3.8 From 418 Users | 33 ReviewsEvaluate About Books Death and Fame: Last Poems, 1993-1997
political ones are informative, sexual ones are gay. too few are the ones that give life away.This collection of poems seems more worthwhile to readers wanting to tap into the complete oeuvre of Ginsbergs work or insight into Ginsbergs final years. I am not particularly struck by this collection otherwise, and the title poem is a bit hard to read through in a post-#MeToo world.
Strong collection of Ginsberg's last work...displaying a trend toward more lyrical and less political work.
I tend not to like things by writers who were brilliant in their careers and are writing at the end of their lives, in my mind trying to re-capture their early success or brilliance . . . jury is still out on this one, although poems about bodily functions (or lack thereof) as one ages seem like a ramble to me . . . but love love love several of these, including the one on identity . . . nehti, nehti . . . the library didn't have the collected poems, so I'll have to go back . . . .
I've always loved Ginsberg's early works. I found this one at my work and finally got around to reading it. His perspective on what was my teenage years felt familiar. A view of that time through his eyes definitely took the tint off of my rose colored glasses of the era.
I'm now more scared than ever of aging, but even in his final years Ginsburg remained relevant, political, and provocative. His sharp, raw insight is a treasure.
A collection of some of the best verses by one of the all-time greats
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