这本书收有金斯伯格的43首佳作，包括《嚎叫》、《北京偶感》、《渴望真实的狮子》、《美国》、《向日葵箴言》、《为什么我要冥思》等。

《拔出雏菊》(Pull My Daisy,1959)的受到瞩目，即是因为本片与敲击氛围的紧密关联：片中的剧情是由杰克•克鲁艾Jack Kerouac撰述并朗诵，而它松散即兴的外观，也反映出那种"痞子"(hin)的生活态度。

"Allen Ginsberg's Howl & Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. Customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trial at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene. Allen Ginsberg was born June 3, 1926, the son of Naomi Ginsberg, Russian emigre, and Louis Ginsberg, lyric poet and schoolteacher, in Paterson, New Jersey. To these facts Ginsberg adds: "High school in Paterson till 17, Columbia College, merchant marine, Texas and Denver copyboy, Times Square, amigos in jail, dishwashing, book reviews, Mexico City, market research, Satori in Harlem, Yucatan and Chiapas 1954, West Coast 3 years. Later Arctic Sea trip, Tangier, Venice, Amsterdam, Paris, read at Oxford Harvard Columbia Chicago, quit, wrote Kaddish 1959, made tape to leave behind & fade in Orient awhile. Carl Solomon to whom Howl is addressed, is a intuitive Bronx dadaist and prose-poet.""

简介1960年代的一部真正“失落”的电影。它以半自传体的形式描述了一位瘾君子疾病与健康交替中的旅行。故事在现实世界景象与主人公在纽约查巴克的成长经历的梦境之间跳来跳去。影片中演员很多，包括有反文化的偶像Allen Ginsberg(艾伦 金斯堡)和William S Burroughs(威廉 巴勒斯)等等.
我是拉塞尔·哈维克，为了记录我的酒精依赖症，开始写这个日记。
――康拉德 鲁克斯 (Conrad Rooks)
跟着他的思绪奔跑，在他的幻念中触摸女性的滑润，在她蛇一般的蠕动中将诗篇留在她的花蕾上，她的唇齿间流淌着欲望，她的腰肢在我的介入中不由自主地抖动，丰满的山峦上，有着诱人的天堂
――――OSAMA KAVKALU
查巴克、查巴克，神圣的流水之地，哈威克童年记忆中的印第安人的死亡之所，在祭祀的鼓点里，我听到血液沸腾的声音，祭祀的魔力中总是有着药物的力量。
叙述往生不是为了摆脱。确定过去是证明存在，片中Ravi Shanker弹奏着迷幻的西塔琴，平和的目光里有着超然物外的力量，西方找到了印度的音乐，却把他的精神导向遗失在太平洋，那些摇头晃脑的嬉皮士，可否知晓普济众生的佛陀愿望。
60年代的纽约铺天盖地的是披头士的唱片广告，进入主流的他们有着温和的模样，只有枪声的发言才会打破他们的平静，吸食和戒毒的过程必将经过苦痛的炼狱，震破耳膜的枪声，让我直面逃离死亡的过程。
从此地到彼岸，只要一颗药，白昼我们生活与此，夜里我们又在哪儿找寻慰籍和天堂。在通往未来的冰冷道路上,亲爱的年轻人,拥有的是LSD,不能拥有的,是未来.
有时候我想,我们是不是不再象以前那样理解世界,而世界,会不会因为我们的改变而改变?对抗消失的年代,LSD的世外桃源年代,爱与和平的年代......我很明白我已经不在那么看世界了,我没有LSD,逃避对我来说也不是对抗的方式,垮掉的,不是年代,只是人----真正的垮掉,也许是现在吧.
这可以说是一部手法先锋的电影,对于幻觉的表现就算在今天看来也有足够的冲击力.而且当摄影师将镜头对准自己的时候,那个年代的精神和气质才在一瞬间强大到了穿越时间,直抵当下我们的内心----所谓精神指引,体制或者监禁,禅,性或代表性的,存在,回归,探索,逃避,潜意识,......我们要的,曾经也没有什么不同.
建议对60年代感兴趣的朋友一看,可以看出后来影片在精神上的继承.

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.

"[An] essential Beat masterpiece." -- The Village Voice .
Perhaps one of the last great dual correspondences of the twentieth century, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters reveals not only the process of creation of the two most celebrated members of the Beat Generation, but also the unfolding of a remarkable friendship of immense pathos and spiritual depth. Through this exhilarating exchange of letters, two-thirds of which have never been published before, Kerouac and Ginsberg emerge first and foremost as writers of artistic passion, innovation, and genius. Vivid and enthralling, the letters, which date from their first meeting in 1944 to Kerouac's untimely death in 1969, chronicle the endless struggle, anguish, and sacrifice involved in giving form to their literary visions.

An insider's history of the "Beat" movement and its personalities through the personal photographs of one of its principle figures. Pointing his camera randomly at the counterculture around him, the poet created a unique visual record of his friends and companions covering a period of almost forty years. His subjects include Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Robert Frank, Paul Bowles, Timothy Leary, dozens of other writers, painters, and friends, and several revealing self-portraits. Beneath each photograph are Ginsberg's handwritten reminiscences of the circumstances, people, and places relating to the photograph.

Allen Ginsberg (19261997) was one of twentieth-century literature’s most prolific letter-writers. This definitive volume showcases his correspondence with some of the most original and interesting artists of his time, including Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Neal Cassady, Lionel Trilling, Charles Olson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, Peter Orlovsky, Philip Glass, Arthur Miller, Ken Kesey, and hundreds of others. Through his letter writing, Ginsberg coordinated the efforts of his literary circle and kept everyone informed about what everyone else was doing. He also preached the gospel of the Beat movement by addressing political and social issues in countless letters to publishers, editors, and the news media, devising an entirely new way to educate readers and disseminate information. Drawing from numerous sources, this collection is both a riveting life in letters and an intimate guide to understanding an entire creative generation.