The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, 1956-1991

One of the central relationships in the Beat scene was the long-lasting friendship of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Bill Morgan, Ginsberg’s biographer, has selected the most significant of the 850 letters the two exchanged between 1956 and 1991. This correspondence paints the biographical and poetic portraits of two of America’s most important—and most fascinating—poets.