- Data di nascita
- Data di morte5 aprile 1997 · Manhattan, New York, New York, Stati Uniti (cancro al fegato)
- Nome alla nascitaIrwin Allen Ginsberg
- Altezza1,75 m
- Allen Ginsberg è nato il 3 giugno 1926. Luogo di nascita: Usa. È conosciuto come attore e sceneggiatore. È celebre per aver partecipato a Beginners (2010), Il favoloso mondo di Amélie (2001) e Urlo (2010). Morì il 5 aprile 1997. Luogo di morte: Usa.
- Public readings of Ginsberg's classic "Howl" became an event, before and after the First Amendment controversies surrounding the work. When one heckler doubted Ginsberg's commitment to "going naked in the world", Ginsberg answered him by disrobing onstage.
- Appears as "Carlo Marx," "Alvah Goldbook," "Irwin Garden," and other names, in friend Jack Kerouac's novels. Kerouac also gave Ginsberg's poem "Howl" its title, after writing a critique of the unfinished work, in a letter that began "I received your howl.".
- Was part of the chorus (including Tom Smothers, Timothy Leary, Norman Mailer, and the local Hare Krishna chapter) who sang on 1969's "Give Peace A Chance" with John Lennon and Yoko Ono during their "bed-in" in Montreal. Spent time later with Lennon and Ono when they moved to New York, and were involved with radicals Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin; they tended to side with Ginsberg when he opposed Hoffman and Rubin's wilder suggestions.
- Frequently worked with William S. Burroughs.
- Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
- You don't have to be right. All you have to do is be candid.
- The Future is History, we're in Science Fiction now.
- Follow your inner moonlight, don't hide the madness.
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