The Centenary of Allen Ginsberg
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Poet, activist and spiritual seeker: On June 3, 1926, the defining voice of the Beat Generation was born. His life in images.
Yesterday marked a hundred years since the birth of Allen Ginsberg, perhaps the last great rhapsode of Western culture, a prophetic poet and visionary, a charlatan, guru, and magician whose cult-like worship could rival that of a rock star.
Reflections on an Angelheaded Hipster: Celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s 100th Birthday
Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark a century ago today. He is totem as much as poet, arguably the most famous American writer of verse in the twentieth-century. There’s the Ginsberg dancing like a shaman in an alleyway behind Bob Dylan in the proto-music video for “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” the Ginsberg chanting alongside John and Yoko on “Give Peace a Chance,” the Ginsberg played by James Franco and Daniel Radcliffe. In the public imaginatio…
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