Allen Ginsberg

Born in June 3, 1926 / Died in April 5, 1997 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POETRY COLLECTIONS

Howl and Other Poems, introduction by William Carlos Williams, City Lights (San Francisco), 1956, revised edition, Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1971, 40th anniversary edition, City Lights, 1996.
Siesta in Xbalba and Return to the States, privately printed, 1956.
Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960, City Lights, 1961.
Empty Mirror: Early Poems, Corinth Books (Chevy Chase, MD), 1961, new edition, 1970.
A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley, Grabhorn Press, 1963.
Reality Sandwiches: 1953-1960, City Lights, 1963.
The Change, Writer's Forum, 1963.
Kral Majales (title means "King of May"), Oyez (Kensington, CA), 1965.
Wichita Vortex Sutra, Housmans (London), 1966, Coyote Books (Brunswick, ME), 1967.
TV Baby Poems, Cape Golliard Press, 1967, Grossman, 1968.
Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals, House of Anansi (Toronto), 1968, City Lights, 1969.
(With Alexandra Lawrence) Ankor Wat, Fulcrum Press, 1968.
Scrap Leaves, Tasty Scribbles, Poet's Press, 1968.
Wales—A Visitation, July 29, 1967, Cape Golliard Press, 1968.
The Heart Is a Clock, Gallery Upstairs Press, 1968.
Message II, Gallery Upstairs Press, 1968.
Planet News, City Lights, 1968.
For the Soul of the Planet Is Wakening..., Desert Review Press, 1970.
The Moments Return: A Poem, Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1970.
Ginsberg's Improvised Poetics, edited by Mark Robison, Anonym Books, 1971.
New Year Blues, Phoenix Book Shop (New York, NY), 1972.
Open Head, Sun Books (Melbourne), 1972.
Bixby Canyon Ocean Path Word Breeze, Gotham Book Mart (New York City), 1972.
Iron Horse, Coach House Press (Chicago), 1972.
The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971, City Lights, 1973.
The Gates of Wrath: Rhymed Poems, 1948-1952, Grey Fox (San Francisco), 1973.
Sad Dust Glories: Poems during Work Summer in Woods, 1974, Workingman's Press (Seattle), 1975.
First Blues: Rags, Ballads, and Harmonium Songs, 1971-1974, Full Court Press (New York City), 1975.
Mind Breaths: Poems, 1972-1977, City Lights, 1978.
Poems All over the Place: Mostly Seventies, Cherry Valley (Wheaton, MD), 1978.
Mostly Sitting Haiku, From Here Press (Fanwood, NJ), 1978, revised and expanded edition, 1979.
Careless Love: Two Rhymes, Red Ozier Press, 1978.
(With Peter Orlovsky) Straight Hearts' Delight: Love Poems and Selected Letters, Gay Sunshine Press (San Francisco), 1980.
Plutonian Ode: Poems, 1977-1980, City Lights, 1982.
Collected Poems, 1947-1980, Harper (New York, NY), 1984, expanded edition published as Collected Poems: 1947-85, Penguin (New York, NY), 1995.
Many Loves, Pequod Press, 1984.
Old Love Story, Lospecchio Press, 1986.
White Shroud, Harper, 1986.
Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems, 1986-1992, HarperCollins (New York City), 1994.
Illuminated Poems, illustrated by Eric Drooker, Four Walls Eight Windows (New York, NY), 1996.
Selected Poems, 1947-1995, HarperCollins, 1996.
Death and Fame: Poems, 1993-1997, edited by Bob Rosenthal, Peter Hale, and Bill Morgan, foreword by Robert Creeley, HarperFlamingo (New York, NY), 1999.

Also author, with Kenneth Koch, of Making It Up: Poetry Composed at St. Mark's Church on May 9, 1979.

OTHER

(Author of introduction) Gregory Corso, Gasoline (poems), City Lights, 1958.
(With William Burroughs) The Yage Letters (correspondence), City Lights, 1963.
(Contributor) David Solomon, editor, The Marijuana Papers(essays), Bobbs-Merrill (New York, NY), 1966.
Prose Contribution to Cuban Revolution, Artists Workshop Press, 1966.
(Translator, with others) Nicanor Parra, Poems and Antipoems, New Directions (Newton, NJ), 1967.
(Contributor) Charles Hollander, editor, Background Papers on Student Drug Abuse, U.S. National Student Association, 1967.
(Author of introduction) John A. Wood, Orbs: A Portfolio of Nine Poems, Apollyon Press, 1968.
(Contributor) Bob Booker and George Foster, editors, Pardon Me, Sir, but Is My Eye Hurting Your Elbow? (plays), Geis, 1968.
(Author of introduction) Louis Ginsberg, Morning in Spring(poems), Morrow (New York, NY), 1970.
(Compiler) Documents on Police Bureaucracy's Conspiracy against Human Rights of Opiate Addicts and Constitutional Rights of Medical Profession Causing Mass Breakdown of Urban Law and Order, privately printed, 1970.
(Contributor of commentary) Jean Genet, May Day Speech, City Lights, 1970.
Indian Journals: March 1962-May 1963; Notebooks, Diary, Blank Pages, Writings, City Lights, 1970, Grove Press, 1996.
Notes after an Evening with William Carlos Williams, Portents Press, 1970.
Declaration of Independence for Dr. Timothy Leary, Hermes Free Press, 1971.
(Author of introduction) William Burroughs Jr., Speed (novel), Sphere Books, 1971.
(Author of foreword) Ann Charters, Kerouac (biography), Straight Arrow Books, 1973.
(Contributor of interview) Donald M. Allen, editor, Robert Creeley, Contexts of Poetry: Interviews 1961-1971, Four Seasons Foundation (San Francisco), 1973.
The Fall of America Wins a Prize (text of speech), Gotham Book Mart, 1974.
Gay Sunshine Interview: Allen Ginsberg with Allen Young, Grey Fox, 1974.
The Visions of the Great Rememberer (correspondence), Mulch Press (San Francisco), 1974.
Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry, Politics, and Consciousness, edited by Gordon Ball, McGraw (New York, NY), 1975.
Chicago Trial Testimony, City Lights, 1975.
The Dream of Tibet, City Moon, 1976.
To Eberhart from Ginsberg (correspondence), Penmaen Press (Great Barrington, MA), 1976.
Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties, edited by Gordon Ball, Grove (New York, NY), 1977.
(With others) Madeira and Toasts for Basil Bunting's 75th Birthday, edited by Jonathan Williams, Jargon Society (East Haven, CT), 1977.
(With Neal Cassady, and author of afterword) As Ever: Collected Correspondence of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady, Creative Arts, 1977.
(Author of introduction) Anne Waldman and Marilyn Webb, editors, Talking Poetics from Naropa Institute: Annals of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Volume I, Shambhala (Boulder, CO), 1978.
Composed on the Tongue (interviews), edited by Donald Allen, Grey Fox, 1980.
(With others) Nuke Chronicles, Contact Two (Bowling Green, NY), 1980.
Your Reason and Blake's System, Hanuman Books, 1989.
Allen Ginsberg: Photographs, Twelvetrees Press (Pasadena, CA), 1991.
(Author of introduction) Ernesto Cardenal, Ergo! The Bumbershoot Literary Magazine, Bumbershoot, 1991.
(Author of forward) Anne Waldman, editor, Out of This World: The Poetry Project at the St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, an Anthology, 1966-1991, Crown (New York, NY), 1991.
(Author of introduction) Andy Clausen, Without Doubt, Zeitgeist Press, 1991.
(Author of introduction) Jack Kerouac, Poems All Sizes, City Lights, 1992.
(Author of introduction) Sharkmeat Blue, King Death: And Other Poems, Underground Forest/Selva Editions, 1992.
(Author of afterword) Louis Ginsberg, Collected Poems, edited by Michael Fournier, Northern Lights, 1992.
Snapshot Poetics: Allen Ginsberg's Photographic Memoir of the Beat Era, introduction by Michael Kohler, Chronicle Books (San Francisco), 1993.
(Editor, with Peter Orlovsky) Francesco Clemente: Evening Raga 1992, Rizzoli International (New York, NY), 1993.
Honorable Courtship: From the Author's Journals, January 1-15, 1955, edited and illustrated by Dean Bornstein, Coffee House Press (Minneapolis), 1994.
(Author of introduction) Edward Leffingwell, Earthly Paradise, Journey Editions, 1994.
Journals Mid-Fifties, 1954-1958, edited by Gordon Ball, HarperCollins, 1995.
(Contributor and author of foreword) The Beat Book: Poems and Fiction of the Beat Generation, edited by Anne Waldman, Shambhala (Boston), 1996.
(Author of foreword) Ko Un, Beyond Self: 108 Korean Zen Poems, Parallax Press (Berkeley, CA), 1997.
(Editor, with Eliot Katz and Andy Clausen) Poems for the Nation: A Collection of Contemporary Political Poems, Seven Stories Press (New York City), 1999.
Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays, 1952-1995, edited by Bill Morgan, HarperCollins, 2000.
Spontaneous Minds: Selected Interviews, 1958-1996, edited by David Carter, HarperCollins, 2001.
(With Louis Ginsberg) Family Business: Selected Letters Between a Father and Son, edited by Michael Schumacher, Bloomsbury, 2001.

Performer on numerous recordings, including San Francisco Poets, Evergreen Records, 1958; Howl and Other Poems, Fantasy, 1959; and Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Poems and Songs, 1949-1993, Rhino/Word Beat, 1995. Work appears in numerous anthologies, including The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men, edited by Gene Feldman and Max Gartenberg, Citadel Press, 1958; and The New Oxford Book of American Verse, edited by Richard Ellmann, Oxford University Press, 1976. Work represented in anthologies, including The Beat Book: Writings from the Beat Generation, edited by Anne Waldman. Contributor of poetry and articles to periodicals, including Evergreen Review, Journal for the Protection of All Beings, Playboy, Nation, New Age, New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Partisan Review, and Times Literary Supplement. Correspondent, Evergreen Review, 1965; former contributing editor, Black Mountain Review; former advisory guru, Marijuana Review. Ginsberg's papers are housed at Stanford University.