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| − | '''Allen Ginsberg''', one of America's celebrated poets <ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/08/specials/ginsberg-obit.html]</ref>, was born 3rd June 1926 in Newark, [[New Jersey]]. Along with others such as [[Jack Kerouac]] and [[William S. Burroughs]], he became part of what was dubbed the "Beat Generation" of writers. He died of liver cancer on 6th April 1997. <ref>[http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/ginsberg/life.htm]</ref> Ginsberg was also a fervent supporter of the notorious North American Man-Boy Love Association, or [[NAMBLA]]. | + | '''Allen Ginsberg''', one of America's celebrated poets <ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/08/specials/ginsberg-obit.html]</ref>, was born 3rd June 1926 in Newark, [[New Jersey]]. Along with others such as [[Jack Kerouac]] and [[William S. Burroughs]], he became part of what was dubbed the "Beat Generation" of writers. He died of liver cancer on 6th April 1997. <ref>[http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/ginsberg/life.htm]</ref> Ginsberg was also a fervent supporter of the notorious North American Man-Boy Love Association, or [[NAMBLA]].<ref>http://www.ijn.com/archive/2002%20arch/062102.htm#story8</ref> |
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Allen Ginsberg, one of America's celebrated poets [1], was born 3rd June 1926 in Newark, New Jersey. Along with others such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, he became part of what was dubbed the "Beat Generation" of writers. He died of liver cancer on 6th April 1997. [2] Ginsberg was also a fervent supporter of the notorious North American Man-Boy Love Association, or NAMBLA.[3]
His most famous works include:
He studied at Columbia University in the 1940s and moved to San Fransisco in 1954. [4] Howl and Other Poems was published in 1956 and in May that year, police seized copies from a bookshop and charged the owners with publishing and selling an obscene and indecent book. This charge was rejected in October 1957 when Judge Clayton Horn ruled that the book had redeeming social value. [5] During the trial, Ginsberg relocated to Paris with his partner Peter Orlovsky. They remained together for forty years, until Ginsberg's death. [6]
References
1. http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/08/specials/ginsberg-obit.html
2. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/ginsberg/life.htm
3. http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/8
4. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/ginsberg/life.htm
5. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/ginsberg/life.htm