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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 born in Newark, New Jersey. Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), a long poem about ’s negative human values and the of his friends among the .

Ginsberg’s poetry was strongly influenced by modernism, romanticism, the beat and cadence of , his Kagyu practice and his background. He considered himself to have inherited the visionary poetic mantle handed from the English poet and artist William Blake on to visionary and 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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    19 Jan 3:17pm Reply

  • Mind_Plague

    Yes he did have the advantage of finding himself at a highly productive point in the space-time continuum. Doesn't make him any worse. If we set aside literary value, I admire beats as the hypersensitive cutting edge of a generation.

    3 Nov 2012 Reply

  • mehdi483

    starry dynamo in the machinery of night...

    3 Mar 2012 Reply

  • Dandy-Jon

    He was a genius, a visionary. Anyone who differs on that is a moron. Case closed.

    23 Oct 2011 Reply

  • DeadKinks

    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.

    13 Sep 2011 Reply

  • iamnotapie

    He had the right friends and was in the right place at the right time, nothing more

    5 Jul 2011 Reply

  • Shy-Guy

    :j

    1 May 2011 Reply

  • BoT___

    Much love to the living memory of you.

    30 Apr 2011 Reply

  • The_Albion

    In my opinion, Danman917 is a trollolololol...

    20 Apr 2011 Reply

  • branchong

    Thank you for giving me the courage to be comfortable with who Iam and the way i want to live.

    3 Apr 2011 Reply

  • xdevotchkax

    absolutely moving.

    10 Mar 2011 Reply

  • stockexchange

    i never want to listen to anything else

    8 Mar 2011 Reply

  • blackbook668

    Far from boring, I find his writings rather lively.

    21 Jan 2011 Reply

  • ourgreyworld

    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.

    8 Dec 2010 Reply

  • ourgreyworld

    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.

    24 Nov 2010 Reply

  • dtowngoo

    with love, Allen, with love

    9 Nov 2010 Reply

  • Max_Eduardo

    gods cannal

    2 Nov 2010 Reply

  • Sjotrollet

    Holy the solitudes of skyscrapers and pavements! Holy the cafeterias filled with the millions! Holy the mysterious rivers of tears under the streets!

    5 Sep 2010 Reply

  • blakeplock

    Om.

    9 Jun 2010 Reply

  • gojiro13

    Peter Orlovsky, RIP.

    2 Jun 2010 Reply
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