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Allen GinsbergAllen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet born in Paterson, New Jersey. Ginsberg's poetry was strongly influenced by modernism, the beats and cadence of jazz, and his Buddhist faith and his Jewish background. In addition, he formed a bridge between the Beats of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s befriending, amongst others, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Bob Dylan. Ginsberg was an open homosexual and a member of NAMBLA. His principal work, "Howl" (ISBN 0872860175), was considered scandalous at the time of publication, due to the rawness of the language, which was frequently explicit. Shortly after its 1956 publication by San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore, it was banned for obscenity. The ban became a cause célèbre among defenders of the First Amendment, and was later lifted after a judge declared the poem to possess redeeming social importance. Ginsberg's liberal and generally anti-establishment politics attracted the attentions of the FBI and he was regarded by them as a major security threat. (It is of some interest to note that the second part of Howl was inspired and written primarily during a peyote vision.) Ginsberg's other major works include "Kaddish" (ISBN 0872860191), a meditation on the death of his mother (this one written while on amphetamines), Naomi Ginsberg, and "Hadda be Playin' on a Jukebox", a poem revolving around certain events of the 1960s and 1970s. "Plutonian Ode" (ISBN 0872861252) is a poem against nuclear weaponry. Ginsberg was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his book "Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992." List of works
This article is adapted from from Wikipedia All Wikipedia article text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg American Scream : Allen Ginsberg's <i>Howl</i> and the Making of the Beat Generation by Jonah Raskin Collected Poems 1947-1980 by Allen Ginsberg Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971 by Allen Ginsberg Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960 by Allen Ginsberg Yage Letters by William S. Burroughs Ginsberg: A Biography by Barry Miles A Burroughs Compendium: Calling the Toads by Allen Ginsberg Ex-Friends: Falling Out With Allen Ginsberg, Lionel & Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer by Norman Podhoretz Voice of the Poet: Allen Ginsberg by ALLEN GINSBERG Howl, and Other Poems (Pocket Poets Series, No. 4) by Allen Ginsberg Reality Sandwiches, 1953-1960 by Allen Ginsberg The Beat Generation in San Francisco : A Literary Tour by Bill Morgan Selected Poems 1947-1995 by Allen Ginsberg Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958-1996 by Allen Ginsberg Recent Allen_Ginsberg related patents From USPTO: |