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Cosmopolitan Greetings

by Allen Ginsberg · 1994

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Half a century after "founding" the Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg has written this powerful collection of poems that are suffused with a range of emotional colors that gives Ginsberg's work an elegiac tone.

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1990s1990sMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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short · 140 pages
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