Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber
By (Author) Allen Ginsberg
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
26th February 2018
22nd February 2018
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Poetry by individual poets
811.54
Paperback
64
Width 111mm, Height 161mm, Spine 4mm
44g
Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry 'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons' Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great icon of Beat poetry.
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was an American poet, best known for his iconic Howl, one of the most widely read and translated poems of the century. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and won the National Book Award for The Fall of America.