I am Prince Mishkin
Mark Ford, 23 April 1987
‘Howl’: Original Draft Facsimile
by Allen Ginsberg, edited by Barry Miles.
Viking, 194 pp., £16.95, February 1987,0 670 81599 3 Show More
by Allen Ginsberg, edited by Barry Miles.
Viking, 194 pp., £16.95, February 1987,
White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985
by Allen Ginsberg.
Viking, 89 pp., £10.95, February 1987,0 670 81598 5 Show More
by Allen Ginsberg.
Viking, 89 pp., £10.95, February 1987,
“... they all were. Ginsberg arrived at Columbia wanting to be a labour lawyer who would fight for blue-collar rights, but under the influence of Burroughs and Lucien Carr he soon began to see himself as a poète maudit and Nietzschean transgressor. Burroughs handed out reading-lists that included Gide, Rimbaud, Dostoevsky and Lautrèamont, and introduced into ... ”