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Political Poetry
“A reminder that the public is not an audience to be managed but a messy place where art, life and politics collide . . . a hopeful map of how artists might continue to practice together.”
—Ed Woodham“Part-manual, part-chronicle, this thoughtful collection by critically and socially engaged artists offers inspiration and scaffolding for change-making in their own contexts and on their own terms.”
—Laura Raicovich“Nourishing and insistent reminders of the potential that emanates from commitments to social practice . . . unearths the political strategies that emerge through art making rooted in collaboration.”
—Gervais Marsh“Eliot Katz’s culling from Allen’s prescient political poetry provides an invaluable guidebook and exemplar of humanity in an increasingly terrifying and challenging world.”
—Simon Pettet“Allen Ginsberg’s daily life centered on digesting news from the New York Times . . . Politics was his breath of every day.”
—Bob Rosenthal“He lived radically, loved openly, and wrote gorgeously, lyrically, and rambunctiously of an unseen America. This is both an urgent and timeless collection.”
—Ira Silverbergabout the bookabout
Bringing together key political poems from across Allen Ginsberg’s career, this collection offers a focused alternative to his Collected Poems, foregrounding the work that engaged most directly with war, capitalism, censorship, sexuality, ecology, and human rights. Alongside landmark works such as “Howl” and “America,” this volume includes lesser-known political poems that reveal the breadth and persistence of Ginsberg’s engagement with the crises of his time. Carefully selected from Ginsberg's expansive body of work, the collection is edited and introduced by Eliot Katz, who situates the poems within a renewed contemporary context while highlighting the craft behind Ginsberg's fusion of political insight and poetic form. Published in the wake of Ginsberg's centennial, this collection reasserts the continued relevance of his work for readers confronting questions of power, freedom, and resistance today.
“There isn’t an artist alive today that can move one to an emotional state of highs and lows verbally in one sentence like Ginsberg did. His writing continues to cultivate peace and tranquility as well as instigate rebellion.”
—Debbie Tosun Kilday
“Allen taught us all to love and respect others whose gifts might be very different from our own, to build that sense of community which he nourished in the outrider poets of my generation.”
—David Cope
“Ginsberg knew how to mock the mighty and write out of the messiness of our national culture. Eliot Katz has put together this important volume that gives any student of American poetry Ginsberg’s foundational language in the public sphere.”
—Patricia Spears Jones
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Related Interest
Political Poetry
“A reminder that the public is not an audience to be managed but a messy place where art, life and politics collide . . . a hopeful map of how artists might continue to practice together.”
—Ed Woodham“Part-manual, part-chronicle, this thoughtful collection by critically and socially engaged artists offers inspiration and scaffolding for change-making in their own contexts and on their own terms.”
—Laura Raicovich“Nourishing and insistent reminders of the potential that emanates from commitments to social practice . . . unearths the political strategies that emerge through art making rooted in collaboration.”
—Gervais Marsh“Eliot Katz’s culling from Allen’s prescient political poetry provides an invaluable guidebook and exemplar of humanity in an increasingly terrifying and challenging world.”
—Simon Pettet“Allen Ginsberg’s daily life centered on digesting news from the New York Times . . . Politics was his breath of every day.”
—Bob Rosenthal“He lived radically, loved openly, and wrote gorgeously, lyrically, and rambunctiously of an unseen America. This is both an urgent and timeless collection.”
—Ira Silverbergabout the bookabout
Bringing together key political poems from across Allen Ginsberg’s career, this collection offers a focused alternative to his Collected Poems, foregrounding the work that engaged most directly with war, capitalism, censorship, sexuality, ecology, and human rights. Alongside landmark works such as “Howl” and “America,” this volume includes lesser-known political poems that reveal the breadth and persistence of Ginsberg’s engagement with the crises of his time. Carefully selected from Ginsberg's expansive body of work, the collection is edited and introduced by Eliot Katz, who situates the poems within a renewed contemporary context while highlighting the craft behind Ginsberg's fusion of political insight and poetic form. Published in the wake of Ginsberg's centennial, this collection reasserts the continued relevance of his work for readers confronting questions of power, freedom, and resistance today.
“There isn’t an artist alive today that can move one to an emotional state of highs and lows verbally in one sentence like Ginsberg did. His writing continues to cultivate peace and tranquility as well as instigate rebellion.”
—Debbie Tosun Kilday
“Allen taught us all to love and respect others whose gifts might be very different from our own, to build that sense of community which he nourished in the outrider poets of my generation.”
—David Cope
“Ginsberg knew how to mock the mighty and write out of the messiness of our national culture. Eliot Katz has put together this important volume that gives any student of American poetry Ginsberg’s foundational language in the public sphere.”
—Patricia Spears Jones
About The Author / Editor
Preview
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