Literary studies: poetry and poets

Chosen by Ginsberg himself from nearly fifty years of experimental, groundbreaking verse, this selection, in his words, summarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing , and includes lesser known and later works which go beyond his iconic Beat Generation image.

A stimulating cross-disciplinary study of how poetry taps into an embodied cognition at its various levels of signification.

Drawn from fifty years of experimental, ground-breaking verse, this selection, in Ginberg's words summarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing .