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The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems: 1937-1952
The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice First Journals and Poems 19371952 Author:Allen Ginsberg, Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton, Bill Morgan The earliest journals and poems of legendary Beat Generation avatar and poet extraordinaire Allen Ginsberg--including rare photographs and over 50 previously unpublished poems. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) kept a journal his entire life, beginning at the age of eleven. In these first journals the most important and formative years of the poet's... more » storied life are captured, his inner thoughts detailed in what the San Francisco Chronicle calls a "vivid first-person account...Ginsberg's unmistakable voice coming into its own for the first time." Ginsberg's journals--so candid he insisted they be published only after his death--document his complex, fascinating relationships with such figures of Beat lore as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, and reveal a growing self-awareness about himself, his sexuality, and his identity as a poet. Illustrated with never-before-seen photos and bolstered by an appendix of his earliest poems, The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice is a major literary event.« less