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Most of the poetry was previously published by City Lights Books and the rest made it to print through other publishers. Classics like "Howl" and "Kaddish" adorn the pages of this volume, adorned by Buddhist-inspired drawings, pictures of Ginsberg's Beatnik buddies and supplementary essays by literati honchos like William Carlos Williams. The most novel aspect of the book is its comprehensiveness--avid Ginberg fans can view the poet's life and work in a single volume...
Part of the group of literary and cultural iconoclasts known as the Beatniks, Ginsberg first gained popularity in 1956 after publishing his poem, "Howl," Ginsberg's other well known pieces include "Kaddish" and "A Supermarket in California...
...strong imagery. The energy never flags, but the quality is wildly uneven. There are love poems that read like high parodies of rest-room scrawl. Howl, once effective as counterculture manifesto, is now an unconvincing historical oddity: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness." But Kaddish, about Ginsberg's insane mother, who died in 1956, is a masterpiece of candor and emotional persuasion: "The Charity of her hands stinking with Manhattan, madness, desire to please me, cold undercooked fish--pale red near the bones. Her smells--and oft naked in the room, so that I stare...
...Free), the Broadway musical (West Side Story) and the symphony (The Age of Anxiety). But in the past 20 years, it seems, the vast range of his talent has hindered rather than helped him, especially as a writer of serious music. In 1963 there was the embarrassment of the "Kaddish" Symphony, with its outburst of adolescent admonishment of God; 1971 saw a Christianized version of the same material in Mass. The premiere last week of his new opera, A Quiet Place, while an improvement, did little to stem his creative decline...
...baby, causes the beasts to go amuck. In a lunatic re-enactment of both Abraham's intended sacrifice of Isaac and of the Crucifixion, Cohn is killed by the apes. In a final tableau, the gorilla dons a yarmulke and "in his throaty, gruff voice" recites the Kaddish...