Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

The poem that defined a generationGuardian on HowlI saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical nakedBeat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse.- This volume brings together the poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counter-culture.- 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.He avoids nothing but experiences it to the hilt William Carlos Williams