Lincoln, MA: Pennmaen Press, 1976. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Allen Ginsberg & Richard Eberhart. "What I didn't say to Eberhart: 'Howl' is really about my mother, in her last year at Pilgrim State Hospital--acceptance of her, later inscribed in 'Kaddish' detail. The campaign of vilification and denigration that the first "Beat" texts met--interpreted from the Partisan Review thru TIME and even in FBI files as incomprehensible anti-social wild-eyed..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1977. First Edition. Softcovers. [Cook 123, pg. 129; Morgan A37, a2.1]. (1) "MIND BREATHS: Australian songsticks measure oldest known poetics, broken-leg meditations march thru Six Worlds singing Crazy Wisdom's hopeless suffering, the first Noble Truth, inspiring quiet Sun sunlit greybeard soliloquies, English moonlit night-gleams, ambitious mid-life fantasies, Ah crossed-legged thoughts sitting straight-spine paying attention to empty breath flowing round the globe; then Dharma elegy..... More

Paris, France: Editions du Seuil, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. This intriguing, wide-ranging French language edition of Allen Ginsberg interviews spanning a fifteen year period from 1963 to 1978 begins with a seldom-discussed, seldom-quoted interview from one Ernie Barry (who it is almost impossible to find any information on). Fresh off of his travels in Cambodia, South Vietnam, Tibet and India, Ginsberg "...joined over 500 demonstrators outside the Sheraton in San..... More

San Francisco, CA: Gay Sunshine Press, 1980. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "STRAIGHT HEARTS' DELIGHT is a crucial volume for understanding the Beat Movement and two of its most prominent members. Included are gay love poems by Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, many previously unpublished in book form, covering a thirty-year period; also letters exchanged between the two poets which document their own love relationship, their travels abroad, and friendship with..... More

Boulder, CO: New Blood Press, 1982. First Printing. Softcover. This July 1982 number of the literary journal/zine features the first appearance of the poem "The Little Fish Devour the Big Fish" by Allen Ginsberg, primary poet of the Beat Generation & beyond, as here. As Ginsberg notes at the end of the poem, it was composed at "11pm Intercontinental Hotel bar Managua Nicaragua January 25, 1982" & is an exemplary..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1986. Later Printing. Softcover. Signed by Allen Ginsberg. Following the release of Allen Ginsberg’s doorstopper “Collected Poems: 1947-1980” in 1984 came 1986’s “White Shroud,” poems composed between 1980-85. “White Shroud” is an interesting collection because it appears on the heels of Ginsberg’s deep immersion as an educator in Boulder, Colorado at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute. Whether one is..... More

Hanover, Germany: Apartment Editions, 1988. First German Edition. Stringbound in Stiff Wrappers. Allen Ginsberg’s interviews and works of literary criticism—his writing on his and others’ poetry, the wealth of recordings in the form of classes he gave at the Naropa Institute—are invaluable documents for the poet, the critic, and the historian for understanding this once-in-a-century mind and social dynamo. “The Riverside Interview” was formed from three conversations Ginsberg had with..... More

New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. "...a long-awaited publishing event- the definitive biography of one of this century's most flamboyant and influential literary renegades. Drawing upon Allen Ginsberg's extensive journals and correspondence, as well as scores of interviews with friends, associates, and with Ginsberg himself, Barry Miles has painted an intimate and richly detailed portrait of the man whose poetry shocked the literary establishment, and whose..... More

New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. "The revealing personal journals of premier American poet Allen Ginsberg from the crucial years of his youth, Journals Mid-Fifties 1954-1958 is a must-read for everyone fascinated by the Beat Generation and its place in American literary and cultural history. A portrait of the artist as a young man at peak creative energy...In these years Ginsberg made radical discoveries in poetics- including..... More

New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1995. First Softcover Edition; Second Printing. Softcover. "Since this work is not done posthumously, I've had the liberty to annotate each verse regarding appropriate cultural references which few critics have examined...I've lived with and enjoyed Howl for three decades, it has become a social and poetical landmark, notorious at worst illuminative at best...It seems helpful in this fourth decade of the poem's use to clarify..... More

New York, NY: Broadway Books, 1999. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The first fully illustrated tribute to Allen Ginsberg- the best-known American poet of the post-war generation, (father) of the Beats, and walking embodiment of Western counterculture. 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..... More

(1) New York, NY; (2) Berkeley, CA: (1) Harper Collins; (2) Workingman's Press, 2001. (1) First Edition, Second Printing; (2) First Printing. (1) Hardcover; (2) Stapled Wrappers. Well, this collection certainly features heavy-hitters all-around—a book of Selected Interviews from Allen Ginsberg with Preface by legendary Czech poet-turned-dissident-turned-politician, Vaclav Havel (a legend in his time and the first democratically-elected president of his country). Added to this is the presence of a...... More

Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. "A travel guide through one of the best minds of the Beat Generation- one distinctly not destroyed by madness- Allen Ginsberg's journals are more tour de force than simple diaries, charting his poetry, political antics, and high-profile encounters behind the Iron Curtain at the height of the Cold War...Ginberg writes of these experiences as only he could, summoning political and..... More