Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary by Stevan M. Weine HARDBACK

Name: Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary by Stevan M. Weine HARDBACK
Brand: Fordham University Press

Fordham University Press

Best MindsHow Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness\nAuthor(s): Stevan M. Weine\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9781531502669, 978-1531502669\nSynopsis\nWINNER, 2024 BEAT STUDIES ASSOCIATION AWARDS\n A revelatory look at how poet Allen Ginsberg transformed experiences of mental illness and madness into some of the most powerful and widely read poems of the twentieth century.\n Allen Ginsberg's 1956 poem \""Howl\"" opens with one of the most resonant phrases in modern poetry: \""I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.\"" Thirty years later, Ginsberg entrusted a Columbia University medical student with materials not shared with anyone else, including psychiatric records that documented how he and his mother, Naomi Ginsberg, struggled with mental illness.\n In Best Minds, psychiatrist, researcher, and scholar Stevan M. Weine, [url] who was that medical student, examines how.