Allen Ginsberg Beat Poet Author:Barry Miles This seminal biography of a counter-cultural icon is re-issued. — Allen Ginsberg occupies a significant and enduring position in American literature. Following Ginsberg's death in 1997, Barry Miles has drawn on both his long friendship with the poet and on Ginsberg's journals and correspondence to produce an immensely readable account of one of t... more »he twentieth century's most extraordinary poets.« less