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Allen Ginsberg

American poet
Also known as: Irwin Allen Ginsberg
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Allen Ginsberg (born June 3, 1926, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.—died April 5, 1997, New York, New York) was an American poet whose epic poem Howl (1956) is considered to be one of the most significant products of the Beat movement. Ginsberg grew up in Paterson, New Jersey, where his father, Louis Ginsberg, himself a poet, taught English. Allen Ginsberg’s mother, whom he mourned in his long poem Kaddish (1961), was confined for years in a...

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