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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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Long incantatory works and books of known American poet Irwin Allen Ginsberg, a leading figure of the Beat Generation, include Howl (1956) and Kaddish (1961).

Naomi Ginsberg bore Irwin Allen Ginsberg, a son, to Louis Ginsberg, a Jewish member of the New York literary counterculture of the 1920s. They reared Ginsberg among several progressive political perspectives. Mental health of Naomi Ginsberg, a nudist, who supported the Communist party, concerned people throughout the childhood of the poet. According to biographer Barry Miles, "Naomi's illness gave Allen an enormous empathy and tolerance for madness, neurosis, and psychosis."

As an adolescent, Ginsberg savored Walt Whitman, though in 1939, when Ginsberg graduated high school, he
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Average rating: 4.04 · 219,534 ratings · 7,167 reviews · 409 distinct worksSimilar authors
Howl and Other Poems

4.13 avg rating — 111,736 ratings — published 1956 — 127 editions
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Kaddish and Other Poems

4.20 avg rating — 9,238 ratings — published 1961 — 54 editions
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Collected Poems, 1947-1980

4.18 avg rating — 7,012 ratings — published 1984 — 11 editions
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Howl

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4.08 avg rating — 6,080 ratings — published 1956 — 27 editions
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Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

3.99 avg rating — 3,102 ratings — published 1956 — 24 editions
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Collected Poems 1947-1997

4.33 avg rating — 2,621 ratings — published 2006 — 18 editions
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Reality Sandwiches

3.95 avg rating — 2,093 ratings — published 1963 — 35 editions
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Kerouac: A Biography

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4.10 avg rating — 1,652 ratings — published 1973 — 24 editions
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The Fall of America: Poems ...

4.09 avg rating — 1,255 ratings — published 1972 — 30 editions
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Television Was a Baby Crawl...

2.84 avg rating — 1,512 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions
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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.”
Allen Ginsberg, Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

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January 2018 Short Story Poll

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, 112 pages, 1929
 
  106 votes, 33.2%

Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson, 54 pages, 1880
 
  38 votes, 11.9%

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 82 pages, 1848
 
  35 votes, 11.0%

 
  30 votes, 9.4%

Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov, 126 pages, 1925
 
  28 votes, 8.8%

 
  25 votes, 7.8%

 
  24 votes, 7.5%

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, 106 pages, 1963
 
  15 votes, 4.7%

Liza of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham, 128 pages, 1892
 
  9 votes, 2.8%

 
  9 votes, 2.8%

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