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.