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    Allen Ginsberg: A Biography

    January 9,
    Ginsberg's Howl was an important poem in high school, the City Lights publication of it being proffered to my friend Richard by his older brother Steve and read by Richard, Hank and myself, some of it aloud, in the basement of Richard and Steve's parents, a regular hang-out in those days. Later, I obtained my own copy, reading it silently, and went on to read Walt Whitman on my own, beyond the little that had been assigned for English class, so similar were their styles.

    I "met" Ginsberg during the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Well, actually, I didn't really meet him. I was in his presence--repeatedly, through the days in Grant Park in front of the Hilton Hotel on Michigan Avenue--his and the presences of Norman Mailer, Burroughs and Gide, I think. Of the bunch, Ginsberg was the most notable because of his attire--white robes--chanting and thumb cymbals.

    I picked up this biography not expecting too much. Frankly, I really didn't know th
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    Allen Ginsberg

    American poet and writer (–)

    For the American businessman, see Alan Ginsburg. For the serial killer who was born Allen Ginsberg, see William MacDonald (serial killer).

    Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, &#;– April 5, ) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions.[1][2]

    Best known for his poem "Howl", Ginsberg denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States.[3][4] San Francisco police and US Customs seized copies of "Howl" in , and a subsequent obscenity trial in attracted widespread pub

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    Ginsberg: A Biography

    New York: Simon & Schuster, / London: Viking Penguin, /  [Revised, updated edition] London, Virgin Books,

     

    In I was hanging around in New York with my friend Victor Bockris and through him got to know his friend Andrew Wylie; they wrote articles and books tillsammans under the combined name of Bockris-Wylie. Andrew had decided to become a literary agent. One evening, I was with them, along with Victor’s flatmate Jeff Goldberg, in the garden of an Italian restaurant just off Father Nimo Square in Greenwich Village, and Andrew told us in his usual confident way that he was going to get us all enormous advances, even though at this time none of us had yet written a proper book. I was to write a biography of my old friend Allen Ginsberg, Victor was to write a biography of his old friend Andy Warhol, and Jeff was going to write a book on opium. It seemed an excellant idea. Andrew had devised a complicated way of presenting books: a long proposal that in