Howl, Kaddish And Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg

Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This new collection brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counterculture. They include the apocalyptic "Howl", which became the subject of an obscenity t...

What Is Madness?

Darian Leader

In What is Madness?, Darian Leader, the author of The New Black and Why do Women Write More Letters Than They Post? asks probing questions about madness, sanity and everything in between. What separates the sane from the mad? How hard or easy is it to tell them apart? And what if the difference is reall...

Summer of Hate

Kraus Chris

"In his journal, Paul liked to make lists: What he ordered from Commissary (shaving cream, toothpaste, deodorant, the transistor radio he had for a week before the guards took it away). The books he picked off the cart (The Bible, Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Codependent No More.) What phone calls he made...