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beat generation avatar and poet extraordinaire Allen Ginsberg – including rare photographs and over 50 previously unpublished poems.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. In these first journals the most important and formative years of the poet's storied life are captured, his inner thoughts detailed in what the San Francisco Chronicle calls a „vivid first-person account… Ginsberg's unmistakable voice coming into its own for the first time.”