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Reality Sandwiches

by Allen Ginsberg

Erotic and prophetic poems celebrating desire, travel, and spiritual transcendence

About the author

American poet whose Howl, read at the Six Gallery in San Francisco in 1955, launched the Beat movement and introduced a Whitmanesque prophetic voice into postwar poetry. Kaddish is his elegy for his mother.

More by Allen Ginsberg

Howl and Other PoemsVisionary beat epic denouncing materialism, war, and conformity in American society
Kaddish and Other PoemsLong elegiac sequence mourning death of poet's mother and meditating on loss
Planet NewsTravel journal poems documenting journeys across continents and states of consciousness
The Fall of AmericaHistorical epic documenting American decline, Vietnam War, and spiritual searching