# Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

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- Authors: [Allen Ginsberg](https://www.bookquiver.com/allen-ginsberg)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-016-7
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2009-02-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.