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ALLEN GINSBERG Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1926, to a Jewish Russian immigrant family. His father, Louis, was a published poet, a high school teacher and a moderate Jewish Socialist. His mother, Naomi, was a radical Communist who went insane and got institutionalized in early adulthood. While dealing with his mother's problems, he was struggling with his own budding homosexuality. In the 1940's, Ginsberg entered Columbia University as a pre-law student, but late changed to his true love, literature. During this time, he began close friendships with a group of wild souls: William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and Jack Kerouac, all of whom later became key figures of the Beat movement. In 1954, Ginsberg moved to San Francisco. He was the first Beat writer to gain popular notice when he delivered a thundering performance of his highly controversial poem, Howl. Howl, had to overcome censorship trials and became one of the most widely read poems of the century, !translated into more than twenty-two languages. In the early sixties, Ginsberg threw himself into the hippie scene, experimented with drugs, and took place in protests against the Vietnam War. In 1965 he coined a famous phrase of the sixties, "Flower Power
it about the Beat Movement, Allen Ginsberg's role in it, and some criticism. The "Beats" were members of a literary protest that was and artistic movement in the mid 1950's. During this period, a small clique of writers declared themselves, "disaffected nonconformists and were elevated by the media to the status of antiheroes," (Layman 34). They wanted to close the gap between life and art. To try to achieve their aspirations, they began by searching for "raw experiences." They saw, learned and wrote, for themselves, their own feelings of what the country was. Individualism was the characteristic held in the highest regard by all of the Beats. It was their belief that everyone should patronize their own ability and freedom to find the truest part of themselves and then to be that person. Among the initiators of the Beat Generation genre, Allen Ginsberg was considered the only genuine beatnik," and was the only one to deal with the psychology of the Vietnam War in real life as ! ." Also his willingness to state his controversial views in public was an important factor in the development of the revolutionary state of mind that America developed during the 1960's. In the1960's and '70's, Ginsberg studied under gurus and Zen masters. He went on to co-found and direct the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Colorado. During the 70's and 80's, Ginsberg recorded and occasionally toured with Bob Dylan and the Clash. In his later years he became a Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College, and car
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