Collected Poems 1947-1997

Allen Ginsberg

Mar 2024 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Greg D. Barnett

About this audiobook

"Taken all together, Ginsberg's poems are X-rays of a considerable part of American society during the last four decades." -the New Yorker This magnificent volume gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half-century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets. A chief figure among the Beats, Ginsberg changed the course of American poetry, liberating it from closed academic forms with the creation of open, vocal, spontaneous, and energetic postmodern verse in the tradition of Whitman, Apollinaire, Hart Crane, Pound, and William Carlos Williams. Ginsberg's raw tones and attitudes of spiritual liberation also helped catalyze a psychological revolution that has become a permanent part of our cultural heritage, profoundly influencing not only poetry and popular song and speech, but also our views of the world.

About the author

Allen Ginsberg was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as a winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1926, and died in New York City in 1997.

Originally from a small mountain valley in Utah, Greg D. Barnett now resides in Los Angeles, working as an actor, teacher, coach, and narrator. He has been telling stories from as early as he can remember and has a passion for inspiring the next generation of storytellers.