Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness

by Stevan M Weine

A revelatory look at how poet Allen Ginsberg transformed experiences of mental illness and madness into some of the most powerful and widely read poems of the twentieth century.

Allen Ginsberg's 1956 poem "Howl" opens with one of the most resonant phrases in modern poetry: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness." Thirty years later, Ginsberg entrusted a Columbia University medical student with materials not shared...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1531502660
• ISBN13: 9781531502669
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"