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Newark, New York NJ, United States (1926 – 1997)
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet born in Newark, New Jersey. Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), a long poem about consumer society’s negative human values and the self-destruction of his friends among the beat generation.
Ginsberg’s poetry was strongly influenced by modernism, romanticism, the beat and cadence of jazz, his Kagyu buddhist practice and his jewish background. He considered himself to have inherited the visionary poetic mantle handed from the English poet and artist William Blake on to visionary and homoerotic poet Walt Whitman. Ginsberg was also influenced heavily by the American poet William Carlos Williams. The power of Ginsberg’s verse, its searching, probing focus, its long and lilting lines, as well as its New World exuberance, all echo the continuity of inspiration which he claimed as his own.
Ginsberg’s poetry was strongly influenced by modernism, romanticism, the beat and cadence of jazz, his Kagyu buddhist practice and his jewish background. He considered himself to have inherited the visionary poetic mantle handed from the English poet and artist William Blake on to visionary and homoerotic poet Walt Whitman. Ginsberg was also influenced heavily by the American poet William Carlos Williams. The power of Ginsberg’s verse, its searching, probing focus, its long and lilting lines, as well as its New World exuberance, all echo the continuity of inspiration which he claimed as his own.
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Dandy-Jon wrote:
He was a genius, a visionary. Anyone who differs on that is a moron. Case closed.
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DeadKinks wrote:
The place wouldn't have been the right place without him, his friends wouldn't have been the right ones without him. Pretty much nothing good from the latter half of the twentieth century to this day in the Western world would have happened without him, be it literature, music, film, behaviour, politics, culture in general.
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iamnotapie wrote:
He had the right friends and was in the right place at the right time, nothing more
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Shy-Guy wrote:
:j
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BoT___ wrote:
Much love to the living memory of you.
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The_Albion wrote:
In my opinion, Danman917 is a trollolololol...
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branchong wrote:
Thank you for giving me the courage to be comfortable with who Iam and the way i want to live.
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xdevotchkax wrote:
absolutely moving.
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stockexchange wrote:
i never want to listen to anything else
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blackbook668 wrote:
Far from boring, I find his writings rather lively.
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ourgreyworld wrote:
I said I think that it's good, and that I respect anyone's opinion that it's bad. I said that you can't really say it doesn't have a point. So your response about the holocaust is in accordance with my statement. The holocaust had a point, and it was terrible. Ginsberg's poetry has a point, and anyone who wants to can say it sucks.
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ourgreyworld wrote:
I cannot fathom how anyone could think his writing was boring or pointless. Have you actually read any of it? I have to respect your opinion that you think his writing is boring, but pointless? No writing is pointless. Ever. Writing is first and foremost a form of expression, whether it accomplishes nothing more than evoking emotions in the writer, it is purposeful.
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dtowngoo wrote:
with love, Allen, with love
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Max_Eduardo wrote:
gods cannal
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Sjotrollet wrote:
Holy the solitudes of skyscrapers and pavements! Holy the cafeterias filled with the millions! Holy the mysterious rivers of tears under the streets!
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blakeplock wrote:
Om.
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gojiro13 wrote:
Peter Orlovsky, RIP.
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cosmic1357 wrote:
HOLY HOLY HOLY
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xfacelessx wrote:
man was genious
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chachachoke wrote:
Allen, in the name of Chaplin and America and Carlo and Marx, jazz or sex or soup, bless you. Yumyum.
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