Da Capo Buys Ginsberg Trove
by John F. Baker -- Publishers Weekly, 1/24/2005
Two volumes of previously unpublished writing by the late poet Allen Ginsberg, whose Howl! was the iconic poem for the Beat Generation, were signed for Da Capo Press by senior editor Ben Schafer. One, The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: The Boyhood Journals of Allen Ginsberg, 1938–1951, comprises a first set of the journals he began at age 11 and continued to his death in 1997. This volume shows him meeting figures like Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and William S. Burroughs, who featured so largely in his life, as well as his discovery of his homosexuality. The second book is Selected Letters, chosen from his voluminous correspondence. Both books will be edited by John Morgan, and were bought, North American rights, from Jeffrey Pasternak at the Wylie Agency.
