A review by jennifer60656
The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937-1952 by Allen Ginsberg, Bill Morgan, Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton

4.0

He was so young and filled with so much unnecessary angst, morbidness, and pity-partying. If someone asked him in 1952 when the journals end that he was going to set the world on fire and change how people feel about poetry or that he would fall in love with someone who would really love him back - I don't think he'd have believed it for a minute. He sounds like he wants to give up on everything - but he really had his whole life ahead of him.
This book is one of those that would be good for a bright young person who is struggling to find his or her place in the world.