CONTENTS

1. Introduction by Michael Schumacher
2. I. POEMS
3. The Bricklayer’s Lunch Hour (1947) (Empty Mirror)
4. The Trembling of the Veil (1948) (Empty Mirror)
5. The Shrouded Stranger (1949–1951) (The Gates of Wrath)
6. The Green Automobile (1953) (Reality Sandwiches)
7. Song (1954) (Howl and Other Poems)
8. On Burroughs’ Work (1954) (Reality Sandwiches)
9. Howl (1955) (Howl and Other Poems)
10. Footnote to Howl (1955) (Howl and Other Poems)
11. A Supermarket in California (1955) (Howl and Other Poems)
12. Sunflower Sutra (1955) (Howl and Other Poems)
13. America (1956) (Howl and Other Poems)
14. Kaddish (1957-1959) (Kaddish and Other Poems)
15. Message (1958) (Kaddish and Other Poems)
16. To Aunt Rose (1958) (Kaddish and Other Poems)
17. The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express (1963) (Planet News)
18. Kral Majales (1965) (Planet News)
19. Who Be Kind To (1965) (Planet News)
20. Wichita Vortex Sutra (1966) (Planet News)
21. City Midnight Junk Strains (1966) (Planet News)
22. Wales Visitation (1966) (Planet News)
23. Please Master (1968) (The Fall of America)
24. On Neal’s Ashes (1968) (The Fall of America)
25. Memory Gardens (1969) (The Fall of America)
26. Mind Breaths (1973) (Mind Breaths)
27. Ego Confession (1974) (Mind Breaths)
28. Don’t Grow Old (1976-1978) (Mind Breaths)
29. Plutonian Ode (1978) (Plutonian Ode)
30. White Shroud (1983) (White Shroud)
31. Cosmopolitan Greetings (1986) (Cosmopolitan Greetings)
32. Return of Kral Majales (1990) (Cosmopolitan Greetings)
33. After Lalon (1992) (Cosmopolitan Greetings)
34. The Charnel Ground (1992) (Cosmopolitan Greetings)
35. Death & Fame (1997) (Death and Fame)
36. Starry Rhymes (1997) (Death and Fame)
37. II. SONGS
38. September on Jessore Road (1971)
39. Gospel Noble Truths (1975)
40. Capitol Air (1980)
41. III. ESSAYS
42. Poetry, Violence, and the Trembling Lambs (1959)
43. “When the Mode of the Music Changes, the Walls of the City Shake” (1961)
44. Prose Contribution to Cuban Revolution (1961)
45. How Kaddish Happened (1966)
46. Statement of Allen Ginsberg, Poet, New York City, Hearings Before a Special Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary—U.S. Senate (1966)
47. Public Solitude (1966)
48. “The Fall of America” Wins an Award (1974)
49. A Definition of the Beat Generation (1981)
50. Meditation and Poetics (1987)
51. Statement [on Censorship] (1990)
52. IV. JOURNALS
53. New York: ca. late-winter 1949
54. New York: May 20, 1952
55. San Francisco: June 8, 1955
56. Pacallpa, Peru: June 11, 1960 *
57. Benares, India: February 22, 1963
58. Havana, Cuba: Feb. 18-19, 1965 *
59. Cherry Valley, New York: October 22, 1969*
60. * previously unpublished
61. V. INTERVIEWS
62. The Paris Review Interview (Paris Review) (1965)
63. The Craft Interview (New York Quarterly) (1970)
64. VI. LETTERS
65. AG to Neal Cassady, ca. April 21, 1949
66. AG to John Clellon Holmes, June 16, 1949
67. AG to Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, ca. February 1952
68. AG to Louis Ginsberg, ca. late-March 1956
69. AG to Richard Eberhart, May 18, 1956
70. AG to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, April 3, 1957
71. AG to William S. Burroughs, June 10, 1960
72. AG to Jack Kerouac, May 11, 1962*
73. AG to Nicanor Parra, August 20, 1965
74. AG to Robert Creeley, November 28, 1967
75. AG to Gary Snyder, July 8, 1968
76. AG to Diana Trilling, January 15, 1979
77. ^* previously unpublished
78. VII. PHOTOGRAPHS
79. AG on rooftop [1953]
80. Jack Kerouac on fire escape [1953]
81. William S. Burroughs [1953]
82. Jack Kerouac [1953]
83. Neal Cassady and Natalie Jackson [1955]
84. San Francisco apartment [1955]
85. Gregory Corso [1957]
86. Group portrait, Tangier [1961]
87. AG in India [1963]
88. Neal Cassady and Timothy Leary [1964]
89. Lawrence Ferlinghetti [1984]
90. Anne Waldman [1985]
91. Orlovsky family [1987]
92. William S. Burroughs [1991]
93. Herbert Huncke [1993]
94. Self-portrait on 70th birthday [1996]
95. Acknowledgments
96. About the Editor
97. About the Author
98. Also by Allen Ginsberg
99. Praise
100. Credits
101. Back Ad
102. Copyright
103. About the Publisher