Allen Ginsberg

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Allen Ginsberg


Born
in Newark, New Jersey, The United States
June 03, 1926

Died
April 05, 1997

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Allen Ginsberg was a groundbreaking American poet and activist best known for his central role in the Beat Generation and for writing the landmark poem Howl. Born in 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish parents, Ginsberg grew up in a household shaped by both intellectualism and psychological struggle. His father, Louis Ginsberg, was a published poet and a schoolteacher, while his mother, Naomi, suffered from severe mental illness, which deeply affected Ginsberg and later influenced his writing—most notably in his poem Kaddish.
As a young man, Ginsberg attended Columbia University, where he befriended other future Beat luminaries such as Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. These relationships formed the core of what bec
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Howl and Other Poems

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Kaddish and Other Poems

4.19 avg rating — 9,524 ratings — published 1961 — 23 editions
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Collected Poems, 1947-1980

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Howl

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4.07 avg rating — 6,225 ratings — published 1956 — 28 editions
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Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

3.98 avg rating — 3,544 ratings — published 1956 — 5 editions
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Collected Poems 1947-1997

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Reality Sandwiches

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Television Was a Baby Crawl...

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The Fall of America: Poems ...

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Selected Poems, 1947–1995

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Quotes by Allen Ginsberg  (?)
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“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
Allen Ginsberg

“I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ”
Allen Ginsberg

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”
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