Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958-1996

The interviews collected in this volume—chronologically arranged and is some cases previously unpublished—were conducted throughout Allen Ginsberg's career. Always a witty and engaging subject, Ginsberg considered the interview an art form as well as an opportunity to express his ideas. In these interviews from the late 1950s to the mid-1990s, he speaks candidly about his poetry, his literary influences, his experimentation with drugs, and his personal life—rebvealing details of his sexual affai…