The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice First Journals and Poems, 1937-1952

Allen Ginsberg, Bill Morgan, Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton, Bill Nagan — 2007

Presents an anthology of Ginsberg's earliest poems and journal entries, discussing his first encounters with lifelong friends Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, his experimentation with drugs, and his struggle to come to terms with his homosexuality. Reprint.