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Collected here are journal entries culled from 18 notebooks that Allen Ginsberg kept during the 1950s and early 1960s, when he and his fellow Beat poets led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. The diary notes, dreams, poems, reflections, and thoughts included in this book intimately illuminate Ginsberg's travels and his mental journeys. They reveal conversations with William Carlos Williams, drug experiences, a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas, stays in Mexico and the cities of San Francisco and New York, first impressions of Naked Lunch, bits and pieces of several of his poems, political rants, and times spent withother Beats. Coleccionadas aqui se encuentran entradas sacadas de 18 cuadernos que Allen Ginsberg mantuvo durante los 50 y los primeros anos de los 60, cuando el y sus companeros poetas Beat llevaron a cabo una insurreccion que altero profundamente el paisaje literario y cultural americano. Las notas de diario, suenos, poemas, reflexiones y pensamientos incluidos en este libro iluminan intimamente los viajes fisicos y mentales de Ginsberg. Revelan conversaciones con William Carlos Williams, experiencias bajo la influencia de drogas, un encuentro al azar con Dylan Thomas, estadias en Mexico y en las ciudades de San Francisco y Nueva York, primeras impresiones de El almuerzo desnudo, trozos de varios poemas suyos, quejas politicas y tiempo pasado con otros Beats.

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Allen Ginsberg was a poet associated with the Beat movement and the rebirth of San Francisco in the 1950s. He was the winner of a National Book Award and is best known for the collection Howl and Other Poems.

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