Allen Ginsberg topic
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- Alan Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5 1997) was an American poet. Ginsberg is best known for the poem Howl (1956), celebrating his friends of the Beat Generation and attacking what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States at the time.
Ginsberg was born into a Jew family in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Paterson. His father Louis Ginsberg was a poet and a high school teacher. Ginsberg's mother, Naomi Livergant Ginsberg (who was...
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