I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg

Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Howl, the first full biography of Allen Ginsberg---from birth to death.

Allen Ginsberg was America’s most influential poet since World War II, a figure who was in the vanguard of every popular movement of that time, from the emergence of the Beat generation to the countercultural revolution to the interest in Eastern spirituality. In this new biography, the first since the poet’s death in 1997 and the only one to cover his entir…