Screaming with Joy: The Life of Allen Ginsberg
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ISBN: 0767902785 / Publisher: Broadway, October 1999
Surveys the life of the beat poet who wrote about sexual freedom, pacifism, drug experimentation, and the need to resist censorship
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Ginsberg's poetry, influenced by the writings of Walt Whitman and the spontaneous prose of his friend Jack Kerouac, is open, forthright, didactic, and written fast without revision. Much of his writing has a raw, confessional quality appropriate to his roles as one of the first gay spokespeople and a leading anti-Vietnam War activist.Screaming with Joy, overflowing with more than 150 photographs and illustrations, is a passionate documentary of Ginsberg's zealous life. His untimely death in 1997 silenced a voice that expanded the capacity of our language, and his cultural icon status makes his work and life of even greater interest today.
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