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Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997)
Category: American Literature Born: June 3, 1926
Newark, New Jersey, United States Died: April 5, 1997
New York City, New York, United States
Related authors:
Bob Kaufman, Charles Bukowski, Christopher Smart, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Richard Brautigan
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| 3/25/1957 |
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Howl Heard in Court
On this day in 1957, U.S. Customs agents seized 520 copies of Allen Ginsberg's Howl on the grounds of obscenity. Ginsberg and his lawyers were not hopeful when they learned that the trial judge was a Sunday school teacher who had recently sentenced five shoplifters to a screening of The Ten Commandments, but the ruling was unequivocally for the poem. |
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| 4/6/1763 |
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Kit Smart, Johnson & Ginsberg
On this day in 1763 Christopher Smart's most famous poem, "Song to David," was published. Though a minor poet, Smart was friendly to those in Samuel Johnson's circle, notorious to many for his enthusiastic public displays of "religious mania" -- "Song to David" was composed in Mr. Potter's Madhouse -- and an important influence on Allen Ginsberg's "Howl." |
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Collected Poems 1947-1980
anthology, poetry |
Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays 1952-1995
essays |
Howl and Other Poems
poetry |
Illuminated Poems
by Allen Ginsberg, Eric Drooker (Illustrator)
poetry, illustration |
Indian Journals March 1962-May 1963: Notebooks Diary Blank Pages Writings
essays, poetry, memoirs |
Journals Mid-Fifties 1954-1958
journals |
Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958-1996
by Allen Ginsberg, Vaclav Havel (Editor), David Carter (Editor)
interviews |
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A "Howl" That Still Echoes: Ginsberg Poem Recalled
The recollections of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, whose City Lights Books published "Howl" in 1956, on the poem's first public reading:
"'Nobody had ever heard anything like that before,' said Ferlinghetti, sipping a Bass Ale at Tosca Cafe in North Beach. 'When you hear it for the first time, you say, I never saw the world like that before.' ... Kerouac sat on the side of the low stage, drinking from a jug of wine and shouting, 'Go!' at the end of some of the long lines. The audience of fewer than a hundred soon joined in with shouts of encouragement, exploding in applause at the conclusion, as Ginsberg left the stage in tears." |  | Academy of American Poets
Ginsberg biography, poetry, bibliography of poetry, prose and drama, and links. Selected poems include "Howl," "Kaddish," and an audio reading of "A Supermarket in California."
"As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began close friendships with William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and Jack Kerouac, all of whom later became leading figures of the Beat movement. In 1954, Ginsberg moved to San Francisco. His first book of poems, Howl, overcame censorship trials to become one of the most widely read poems of the century, translated into more than twenty-two languages. In the 1960s and '70s, Ginsberg studied under gurus and Zen masters...." | | Allen Ginsberg Trust
Official web site of the Allen Ginsberg Trust. Features a biography, life timeline, links to a variety of Beat-related web pages, and a collection of electronic texts and audio recordings including "Sunflower Sutra," "Father Death Blues," "A Mad Gleam," and other works. Also features art, photography, and video clips. | | Bob Dylan
Fan site featuring a searchable index of song lyrics, discography, playlist and reviews of Dylan's latest tours, and a variety of audio recordings of musical performances. | | Interview with Don Swaim
"Allen Ginsberg, the beat poet and social activist, talks with Don Swaim about work, poetry, politics, drugs, sex, censorship, and more in this 1985 interview. Ginsberg reads 'The Warrior' and portions of 'Howl' and 'Moloch.'" (44 minutes) | | Modern American Poetry
Find two short biographies, selected poems ("A Supermarket in California," "Sunflower Sutra," "America," "Kaddish" and "CIA Dope Calyps"), commentary on "Howl" and "Love Poem on a Theme by Whitman," several interviews, information about the Vietnam War, and notes on Ginsberg's FBI file. | |
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