Who is Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions.Ginsberg is best known for his poem "Howl", in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. San Francisco police and US Customs seized "Howl" in 1956, and it attracted widespread publicity in 1957 when it became the subject of an obscenity trial, as ...
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Allen Ginsberg Poems

• Kissass
  Kissass is the Part of Peace
  America will have to Kissass Mother Earth
  Whites have to Kissass blacks, for Peace & Pleasure,
  Only Pathway to Peace, Kissass....
• Homework
  Homage to Kenneth Koch
  
  
  If I were doing my Laundry I'd wash my dirty Iran ...
• First Party At Ken Kesey's With Hell's Angels
  Cool black night thru redwoods
  cars parked outside in shade
  behind the gate, stars dim above
  the ravine, a fire burning by the side ...
• An Asphodel
  O dear sweet rosy
  unattainable desire
  ...how sad, no way
  to change the mad ...
• Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night Writing Letters
  Pigeons shake their wings on the copper church roof
  out my window across the street, a bird perched on the cross
  surveys the city's blue-grey clouds. Larry Rivers
  'll come at 10 AM and take my picture. I'm taking ...

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Allen Ginsberg Quotes

• Whoever controls the media --the images-- controls the culture.
• America, why are your libraries full of tears?
• Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.

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Comments about Allen Ginsberg

• Abigailkret: also now obsessed with good morning mr. orwell (1984) which was hosted by an increasingly drunk george plimpton and featured performances by merce cunningham, laurie anderson, joseph bueys, philip glass + very high john cage & allen ginsberg. was a delightful disaster!
• Quintenfernando: i would've loved to see edward r murrow fight, allen ginsberg
• Gusmarcados: you know me now. i’m only good at beginnings. allen ginsberg
• Gnilwoce: “poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.” ― allen ginsberg
• Yasinkaralar86: “night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow.” –allen ginsberg

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