Ginsberg, Allen

Chuck Carlise

doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.489

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Ginsberg, Allen

Chuck Carlise

https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.489
Published online: 26 July 2017

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Part pop-culture icon and gay, left-wing revolutionary, part visionary spokesman for a new American poetics, Allen Ginsberg was always provocative and sometimes profound. Whether defining Beat poetry with public readings, testifying before Congress to legalize LSD, cofounding the writing school at the western hemisphere's first accredited Buddhist college, or releasing musical recordings of William Blake's poems, he was always in the center of beauty and controversy.

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