Category: <p>Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation; and <i>Howl; Kaddish and Other Poems </i>is a collection of his finest work published in Penguin Modern Classics; including 'Howl'; whose vindication at an obscenity trial was a watershed moment in twentieth-century history.<p> <p>'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness; starving hysterical naked'<p> <p>Beat movement icon and visionary poet; Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless; pyrotechnic verse. This new collection brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counterculture. They include the apocalyptic 'Howl'; which became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956; the moving lament for his dead mother; 'Kaddish'; the searing indictment of his homeland; 'America'; and the confessional 'Mescaline'. Dark; ecstatic and rhapsodic; they show why Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.<p> <p>Allen...