Male : Most famous of the Beat Poets. Homosexual. Moved to Paris

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Paterson, New Jersey

Date of Birth : 1926 Date of Death : 1997 Age : 70

Education : Paterson HS & Columbia Univ

1956-1960
Howl : for Carl Solomon (1955 SF) - mimeograph (handed out free at a reading in SF)
Howl and Other Poems (1956 City Lights Bookshop,Pocket Poets No 4, SF) - First book
[For publishing this Lawrence Ferlinghetti was tried and acquitted of obscenity]

1961-1965
Empty Mirror (1961 Totem/Corinth, NY)
Kaddish & Other Poems 1958-1960 (1961 City Lights, Pocket Poets No 14)
Penguin Modern Poets 5 (1963 Penguin)
The Yage Letters (1963 City Lights, SF) - with William S Burroughs
Reality Sandwiches 1953-60 (1963 City Lights)

1966-1970
Wichita Vortex Sutra (1966 Coyote, City Lights, SF) (1966 Peace News Poetry, London)
Prose Contribution to Cuban Revolution (1966 Artists' Workshop Press, Detroit)
TV Baby Poems (1967 Cape Goliard Press) - 2000
[The first book by this press]
Wales - A Visitation, July 29th 1967 (1968 Cape Goliard, London) - 300
Planet News 1961-7 (1968 City Lights, SF)
Scrap leaves : Tasty Scribbles (1968 Poet's Press, NY) - 150 signed
Ankor Wat (1968 Fulcrum Press) 100 signed - photos by Alexandra Lawrence
Airplane Dreams : Compositions for Journals (1968 Aransi / City Lights, SF)
Indian Journals (1970 City Lights, SF)
The Moments Return (1970 Grabhorn Hoyem, SF)
Notes after an Evening with William Carlos Williams (1970. Not Published. Portents 17) - 300 signed

1971-1975
The Fall of America : Poems of These States 1965-1971 (1972 City Lights)
The Gates of Wrath : Rhymed Poems 1948-1951 (1972 Grey Fox Press, Bolinas) - 100 signed
Bixby Canyon Ocean Path Ward Breeze (1972 Gotham Book Mart, NY) - 126
Improvised Poetics (1972 Anonym Editions, SF)
Open Head Open Eye (1972 Sun Books, Melbourne) - with Lawrence Ferlinghetti
New Year Blues (1972 Phoneix Book Shop, NY) - 126
What Would You do if You Lost it ? (1973 Odradek No 6 , Liege) - 500
The Fall of America : Poems of These States (1973 City Lights SF)
Allen Verbatim : Lectures on Poetry, etc (1974 McGraw-Hill)
Iron Horse (1974 City Lights, SF & Coach House Press, Toronto)
The Fall of America Wins a Prize (1974 Gotham Book Mart, NY) - 126
Gay Sunshine : Interview, with Allen Young (1974 Grey Fox Press, Bolinas)
First Blues Rags, Ballads & Harmonium Songs 1971-1974 (1975 Full Court Press, NY)
Sad Dust Glories (1975 The Workingman's Press, Berkeley)
Chicago Trial testimony (1975 City Lights SF)

1976-1980
To Eberhart from Ginsberg (1976 Penmaen Press, Lincoln MA)
Punk Rock Your My Big Crybaby (1977 The Alternative Press)
Take Care of My Ghost, Ghost (1977 Ghost Press)
As Ever : Collected Correspondence Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady (1977 Creative Arts, Berkeley)
Journals : Early Fifties, Early Sixties (1977 Grove Press)
Careless Love (1978 Red Ozier Press, Madison)
Mostly Sitting Haiku (1978 From Here Press, NJ)
Mind Breaths : Poems 1971-1976 (1978 City Lights, SF)
Plutonian Ode (1978 Rock Flats) - loose sheets laid into stiff wrappers
Poems all Over the Place, Mostly Seventies (1978 Cherry Valley Editions, NY)
Wales Visitation (1979 Five Seasons, Hereford Poems 4) - Ltd Ed 350. Photographs by Tom Maschler
Straight Hearts' Delight : Love Poems and Selected Letters
(1980 Gay Sunshine Press, SF) - with Peter Orlovsky
Composed on the Tongue : Literary Conversations 1967-1977 (1980 Grey Fox Press, Bolinas)

After 1981
Plutonian Ode & Other Poems 1977-1980 (1982 City Lights, SF)
Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984 Harper & Row) (1985 Viking, London)
White Shroud Poems 1980-1985 (1986 Harper & Row, NY) - 200 signed (1987 Viking, UK £10.95)
Old Love Story (1986 Lospecchio Press, NY) - 150 signed by author & Larry R Collins
Your Reason and Blake's System (1988 Hanuman Books, NY)
Cosmopolitan Greetings : Poems 1986-1993 (1994 Harper Collins, NY) (1995 Penguin £7.99)
Howl Annotated (1995 Harper Collins, NY) - with facsimile MS
Journals Mid-Fifties (1995 Harper Collins NY)
Indian Journals (1996 Grove Press, NY)
Illuminated Poems (1996 Four Walls Eight Windows NY) - Eric Drooker
Selected Poems 1947-1995 (1996 Harper Collins, NY) (1997 Penguin £9.99)
Luminous Dreams (1997 Zasterle Press, Gran Canaria)
Death & Fame : Last Poems 1993-1997 (1999 Harper Collins NY)
Deliberate Prose : Selected Essays 1952-1995 (2000 Harper Collins US) (2000 Penguin £7.99)

READING
J W Ehrlich : Howl of the censor (1961)
Thomas F Merrill : Allen Ginsberg (1969)
Jane Kramer : Allen Ginsberg in America (1969)
(Ed) G Dowden : Allen Ginsberg Bibliography 1943-1967 (1971 City Lights SF)
Eric Motram : Allen Ginsberg in the Sixties (1972 Unicorn Bookshop, Brighton/Seattle)
M Kraus : Allen Ginsberg Bibliography 1969-1978 (1980 Scarecrow Press, Metuchen NJ)
Barry Miles : Ginsberg - A Biography (1989 Simon & Schuster) (1990 Viking UK)
Michael Schumacher : Dharma Lion - A Critical Biography of Allen Ginsberg (1992 St Martin's Press, NY)
Bill Morgan : The Works of Allen Ginsberg 1941-1994 - A Descriptive Bibliography
(1995 Greenwood Press, Westport)
Graham Caveney : Screaming with Joy - The Life of Allen Ginsberg (1999 Bloomsbury £20)
(Ed) Michael Schumacher : Family Business - Selected Letters between a Father and a Son
(2001 Bloomsbury £25)
Edward Sanders : The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg - A Narrative Poem
(2002 Scribner, London £10)