# Allen Ginsberg — a declared absence: Howl, Kaddish and the books of poems to Death & Fame

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) is entered as wanted: the poet of the American line that runs from Whitman (03/01), whom "A Supermarket in California", in Howl and Other Poems, addresses. His books are in copyright: those published before 1978 run ninety-five years from publication, those after it seventy years from his death, to 1 January 2068.

Rights: The Allen Ginsberg Estate; the first publishers named.

| Author | Work | First publisher | Year | Opens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allen Ginsberg | Howl and Other Poems | City Lights | 1956 | 2052-01-01 if its copyright was renewed (a United States work published before 1964 needed renewal; the renewal is to be checked) |
| Allen Ginsberg | Kaddish and Other Poems 1958–1960 | City Lights | 1961 | 2057-01-01 if its copyright was renewed (a United States work published before 1964 needed renewal; the renewal is to be checked) |
| Allen Ginsberg | Empty Mirror: Early Poems | Totem Press / Corinth Books | 1961 | 2057-01-01 if its copyright was renewed (a United States work published before 1964 needed renewal; the renewal is to be checked) |
| Allen Ginsberg | Reality Sandwiches | City Lights | 1963 | 2059-01-01 if its copyright was renewed (a United States work published before 1964 needed renewal; the renewal is to be checked) |
| Allen Ginsberg | Planet News | City Lights | 1968 | 2064-01-01 |
| Allen Ginsberg | The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965–1971 | City Lights | 1973 | 2069-01-01 |
| Allen Ginsberg | Mind Breaths | City Lights | 1977 | 2073-01-01 |
| Allen Ginsberg | Plutonian Ode | City Lights | 1982 | 2068-01-01 |
| Allen Ginsberg | Collected Poems 1947–1980 | Harper & Row | 1984 | 2068-01-01 |
| Allen Ginsberg | White Shroud | Harper & Row | 1986 | 2068-01-01 |
| Allen Ginsberg | Cosmopolitan Greetings | HarperCollins | 1994 | 2068-01-01 |
| Allen Ginsberg | Death & Fame | HarperFlamingo | 1999 | 2068-01-01 |

Wanted: the recordings of the readings, held by their recorders and archives under their terms; the manuscripts at Stanford University Libraries.

Beside Whitman (03/01), Blake (19/04), whose voice Ginsberg heard in his Harlem vision of 1948, and the Millerite and Latter Day Saint seats of the American visionary line (24/01, 24/03).

This seat holds no text of the works it names. The dates follow the terms stated; they are not legal advice.