2007-02-04 Great Biography

This is a great biography about one of the greatest poets in the XXth century. It's a little bit long, though, but Barry Miles prose is so fluent that is really easy to read for hours in a row. In almost 600 pages, he narrates not only Ginsberg's life, but also analyses his poetry, explains Howl and Kaddish and gives lots of details about the Greenwich Village days of the Beat Generation.

So, if you like Ginsberg's poetry (or poetry in general...), if you have a fascination with the Beats or simply like biographies, you should definitely buy this book.