Anthologies, Interviews, Essays, Bibliographies

"American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' and the Making of the Beat

Jonah Raskin

University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004

A Casebook of the Beat,

Thomas Y, Crowell, NY, 1961
T. Parkinson, editor

Allen Ginsberg Bibliography 1943-1967

City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1971
G. Dowden, editor

Best Minds A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg,

Lospecchio Press, New York City, 1986
Bill Morgan and Bob Rosenthal, editors

Dear Allen: Letters to Allen Ginsberg by William S. Burroughs 1953-57

William Burroughs

Full Court Press, New York City, 1982
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Dharma Lion: A Critical Biography of Allen Ginsberg

Michael Schumacher

St. Martin's Press, New York City, 1992
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Ginsberg: A Biography

Barry Miles

Simon & Schuster, New York City, 1989
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On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg,

Allen Ginsberg

University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1984
Lewis Hyde, editor

Paris Review Interviews w/Tom Clark, 3rd Series

Allen Ginsberg

Viking, New York City, 1967

Scenes Along the Road

Gotham Book Mart, New York City, 1970
Ann & Sam Charters, editors

Scenes Along the Road

City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1984
Anne Charters, editor

Talking Poetics from Naropa Institute Vol. 2

Shambhala, Boston, 1979
Anne Waldman, editor

Talking Poetics from Naropa Institute, Vol 1

Shambhala, Boston, 1978
Anne Waldman

The Marihuana Papers

Bobbs-Merril, New York City, 1966
David Solomon, editor

The New Naked Poetry

Bobbs-Merrill, New York City, 1976
Berg & Mazey, editors

The Poem in its Skin

Paul Carrol

Big Table/Follet, Chicago, IL, 1968

The Poetics of the New American Poetry,

Grove Press, New York City, 1973
Donald Allen, Warren Tallman, editors

The Portable Beat Reader

Viking Portable Library, New York City, 1992
Ann Charters, editor
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The Post -Moderns: The New American Poetry Revised

GroveGrove Press, New York City, 1982
Donald Allen and G. Butterick, editors

The Works of Allen Ginsberg, 1941-1994 A Descriptive Bibliography

Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1995
Bill Morgan, editor

Visionary Poetics of Allen Ginsberg,

Paul Portuges

Ross-Erikson, Clifornia, 1978

Photography and Catalogues

Allen Ginsberg 108 Images

Allen Ginsberg

Fred Hoffman Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA, 1995

Allen Ginsberg Photographs

Allen Ginsberg

Twelvetrees Press, Santa Fe, NM, 1991
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Snapshot Poetics: A Photographic Memoir of the Beat Era

Allen Ginsberg

Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1993
Michael Kohler, editor
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Poetry

Collected Poems 1947-1980

Allen Ginsberg

HarperCollins, New York City, 1984
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Cosmopolitan Greetings Poems 1986-1992

Allen Ginsberg

HarperCollins, New York City, 1994
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Death & Fame: Poems 1993-1997

Allen Ginsberg

HarperCollins, New York City, 1999
Peter Hale, editor
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Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971

Allen Ginsberg

City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1973
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Howl and Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg

City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1956
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Howl Annotated w/facsimile manuscript

Allen Ginsberg

Harper Perennial (Paperback), New York City, 1995
Barry Miles, editor
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Illuminated Poems

Allen Ginsberg

Four Walls Eight Windows, New York City, 1996
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Iron Horse

Allen Ginsberg

Toronto/City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1974
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Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960

Allen Ginsberg

City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1961
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Mind Breaths, Poems 1971-76

Allen Ginsberg

City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1978
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Planet News, 1961-1967

Allen Ginsberg

City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1968
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Plutonian Ode, Poems 1977-1980

Allen Ginsberg

City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1982
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Reality Sandwiches

Allen Ginsberg

City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1963
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Selected Poems 1947-1995

Allen Ginsberg

HarperCollins, New York City, 1996
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The Gates of Wrath, Rhymed Poems 1948-51

Allen Ginsberg

Four Seasons, Bolinas, CA, 1972
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White Shroud Poems 1980-1985

Allen Ginsberg

Harper & Row, New York City, 1986
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Prose

Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry etc.

Allen Ginsberg

McGraw Hill, New York City, 1974 (op)
Gordon Ball, editor

As Ever: Collected Correspondence Allen Ginsberg & Neal Cassady

Creative Arts, Berkeley, CA, 1977
Barry Gifford, editor

Chicago Trial Testimony; City Lights Trashcan of History Series #1

Allen Ginsberg

City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1975

Composed on the Tongue (Literary Conversations, 1967-1977)

Allen Ginsberg

Grey Fox Press, Bolinas, CA, 1980
Donald Allen, editor
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Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays 1952-1995

Allen Ginsberg

HarperCollins, New York City, 2000
Bill Morgan, editor
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Family Business: Selected Letters between a Father and Son

Allen Ginsberg

Bloomsbury, New York, 2001
Michael Schumacher, editor
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Gay Sunshine Interview (w/Allen Young)

Allen Ginsberg

Grey Fox Press, Bolinas, CA, 1974
Allen Young, editor

Indian Journals

Allen Ginsberg

Grove Press, New York City, 1996
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Journals Early Fifties Early Sixties

Allen Ginsberg

Grove Press, New York City, 1977, 1993
Gordon Ball, editor
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Journals Mid-Fifties 1954-1958

Allen Ginsberg

HarperCollins, New York City, 1995
Gordon Ball, editor
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Luminous Dreams

Allen Ginsberg

Zasterle Press, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain, 1997

Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews: 1958-1996

Allen Ginsberg

HarperCollins, New York City, 2001
David Carter, editor
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Straight Hearts' Delight: Love Poems and Selected Letters (w/Peter Orlovsky)

Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky

Gay Sunshine Press, San Francisco, 1980
Winston Leyland, editor
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The Visions of the Great Rememberer Epilogue to Kerouac's Visions of Cody

Allen Ginsberg

Penguin, New York City, 1993

The Yage Letters (w/William S. Burroughs)

William Burroughs

City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1963
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To Eberhart from Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

Penmaen Press, Lincoln, MA, 1976

Your Reason and Blake's System

Allen Ginsberg

Hanuman Books, New York City, 1988

While doing research for his biography on Gary Snyder, scholar John Suiter stumbled across this lost recording from a month before the official 'earliest known.' In his piece for Reed Magazine, Suiter draws up an analysis of the whole recording offering useful textual insights and comparisons to the final published text. Reed College have provided a stream of the entire reading on their site as well. [more...]

J. Koivisto writes “When did Allen first meet William S. Burroughs, and under what circumstances? ” Click here to read the response - or to ask your own question!

A growing online repository of Ginsbergiana, left behind by Allen for future exploration so that those wishing to research his life and work would have ample fodder for their own interpretive experience. Click here to jump into the library.

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Credits, kudos, random finger-pointing. [more...]