{"id":2136,"date":"2014-01-09T20:40:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T20:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2014-01-09T20:40:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T20:40:45","slug":"new-year-blues-by-ginsberg-is-featured-work-for-january-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2014\/01\/09\/new-year-blues-by-ginsberg-is-featured-work-for-january-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year Blues by Ginsberg is Featured Work for January 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cover of New Year Blues by Allen Ginsberg, 1972.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New Year Blues<\/em> is contains two works by the poet Allen Ginsberg: “Christmas Blues” and “Macdougal Street Blues.” Ginsberg notes that “these are first experiment blues lyrics, one written waiting turn in St. Marks Church Xmas open poetry reading, & the other midnite in Fennjon’s basement coffeeshop waaiting to do hour’s set backroom 1AM.”<\/p>\n

This first edition of\u00a0New Year Blues<\/em> was limited to one hundred copies, numbered and signed by the author. Binghamton University Libraries Special Collections holds copy number eighty-one.<\/p>\n

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One of the most respected Beat writers and acclaimed American poets of his generation, Allen Ginsberg enjoys a prominent place in post-World War II American culture. He was born in 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, and raised in nearby Paterson. The son of an English teacher and Russian expatriate, Ginsberg\u2019s early life was marked by his mother\u2019s psychological troubles, including a series of nervous breakdowns. In 1943, while studying at Columbia University, Ginsberg befriended William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, and the trio later established themselves as pivotal figures in the Beat Movement.\u00a0Ginsberg is best known for his epic poem “Howl”, in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of\u00a0capitalism\u00a0and\u00a0conformity\u00a0in the United States.<\/p>\n

Learn more about Allen Ginsberg here<\/a><\/p>\n

To see and read our library’s copy of\u00a0New Year Blues<\/em>, visit Special Collections, located on the second floor of the Glenn G. Bartle Library (off of the North Reading Room).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Year Blues is contains two works by the poet Allen Ginsberg: “Christmas Blues” and “Macdougal Street Blues.” Ginsberg notes that “these are first experiment blues lyrics, one written waiting turn in St. Marks Church Xmas open poetry reading, & the other midnite in Fennjon’s basement coffeeshop waaiting to do hour’s set backroom 1AM.” This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-featured-book"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}