Allen Ginsberg The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice (First Journals and Poems 1937-1952)

Allen Ginsberg

The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice (First Journals and Poems 1937-1952)    

Edited by Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton and Bill Morgan

Published by Da Capo Press, USA, 2006. Approx size: 24cm H x 17cm W (9 ½” H x 6 ½” W). Hardback with dust jacket. Poetry & Journals. Illustrated. Index. 523pp.

 The Earliest journals and poems of legendary Beat Generation avatar and poet extraordinaire Allen Ginsberg - including rare photographs and over 50 previously unpublished poems.

“Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) kept a journal his entire life, beginning at the age of eleven. These first journals detail the inner thoughts of the awkward boy from Paterson, New Jersey, who would become the major poet and spokesman of the literary phenomenon called the Beat Generation. The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice - rendered 'The Book of Martifice' in one of Ginsberg's notebooks - covers the most important and formative years of the poet's storied life. During this time as a precocious and inquisitive student at Columbia College in New York City, he met Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, both of whom would become lifelong friends and significant literary figures in their own right. Ginsberg's journals - so candid he insisted they be published only after his death - also document his complex, fascinating relationships with other figures of Beat lore: Herbert Huncke, Lucien Carr, and Carl Solomon."

Book condition: Unread. Fine / As New