Allen Ginsberg

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title: Allen Ginsberg
text: Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, 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. Best known for his poem "Howl", Gi
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description: American poet and writer (1926–1997)
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date created: 2001-09-25T11:20:45Z
date modified: 2024-09-10T16:42:16Z
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