Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), the American writer

Legal name, Full name

"Irwin Allen Ginsberg"

Albums

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First Blues, The Ballad of the Skeletons, Howl and Other Poems, The Lion for Real, Holy Soul Jelly Roll,  …

Meditation Rock

Born

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1926; June 1926; June 3rd 1926; the United States; North America;  …

New Jersey; the world; the Americas; Jersey; Newark, New Jersey; Northeastern United States; the Northern Hemisphere; the Tri-State Region; Essex County, NJ; the continental United States; the contiguous United States; the EST/EDT region; the G8; the area using the NANP; the US dollar zone; North America

Died

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1997, April 1997, April 5th 1997, the United States, New York City,  …

New York state, North America, the world, the Americas, the Northern Hemisphere, the Tri-State Region, the EST/EDT region, the contiguous United States, the continental United States, the G8, the area using the NANP, the US dollar zone, North America, liver cancer, Liver tumor

Starred in

Pull My Daisy, Chappaqua, Poetry in Motion, Wild Combination

Website

http://www.ginsbergmovie.com

Wrote

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Howl, The Yage Letters, Howl and Other Poems, Pull My Daisy, The Fall of America,  …

Reality Sandwiches, Planet News, Mind Breaths, The Fall of America

Wrote for Screen

Me and My Brother

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg

Gender

male, female

Nationality

american

Residence

New York City; Newark, New Jersey; Boulder, Colorado; Paterson, New Jersey

Educated

Columbia University, Montclair State University, Eastside High School, Booker T. Washington Pcs

Last Name

"Ginsberg"

First Name

"Irwin", "Allen"

Organisations

Ashkenazi Jews, American Jews

Main Occupation

writer, poet

Age at Death

70 years, 10 months and 2 days old

Class

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musician, person, Jewish person, anarchist, artist,  …

writer, poet, academic, Gemini person, musical act, band member, author, award winner, activist

Husband

Carlos Cortez

Did

die (1997)

Theme of

Howl, Ex-friends

Influence of

Beau Sia, Diane Wakoski, Elizabeth Young

Featured in

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Ciao! Manhattan, The War at Home, Corso, Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg, A Poet on the Lower East Side,  …

Gang of Souls, Ferlinghetti, Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles, 20 to Life, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac

Performed

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Amazing Grace; Amazing Grace; The Ballad of the Skeletons; The Ballad of the Skeletons; C'mon Jack;  …

C'mon Jack; Ode to Failure; Ode to Failure; Guru; Kral Majales; Kral Majales; Hum Bom!; Hum Bom!; Sunset; Sunset; Stanzas: Written at Night in Radio City; Stanzas: Written at Night in Radio City; The End; Cleveland, the Flats; Cleveland, the Flats; Gregory Corso's Story; Gregory Corso's Story; The Shrouded Stranger; The Shrouded Stranger; Refrain; Refrain; The Lion for Real; The Lion for Real; To Aunt Rose; Xmas Gift; Xmas Gift; Complaint of the Skeleton to Time; Complaint of the Skeleton to Time; Scribble; Scribble; The Sunflower Sutra; The Sunflower Sutra; Kaddish, Part 1; Kaddish, Part 1; Europe! Europe!; Europe! Europe!; Strange New Cottage in Berkeley; Strange New Cottage in Berkeley; In the Back of the Real; In the Back of the Real; America; Transcription of Organ Music; Transcription of Organ Music; A Supermarket in California; Footnote to Howl; Howl; After Lalon; After Lalon; Do the Meditation Rock; Father Death Blues; Father Death Blues; September on Jessore Road; September on Jessore Road; On Neal's Ashes; On Neal's Ashes; Airplane Blues; Hum Bom; Hum Bom; Gospel Noble Truths; Gospel Noble Truths; Birdbrain; Birdbrain; Prayer Blues; The Little Fish Devours the Big Fish; The Little Fish Devours the Big Fish; Please Master; Please Master; Vomit Express; Vomit Express; CIA Dope Calypso; CIA Dope Calypso; Written in My Dreams by W.C. Williams; Written in My Dreams by W.C. Williams; Capitol Air; Capitol Air; The 1994 release of 'Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Poems and Songs 1949 - 1993 (disc 4: Ashes & Blues)'; Pull My Daisy; Pull My Daisy; Nurse's Song (Innocence); Nurse's Song (Innocence); Wichita Vortex Sutra Part 3; Wichita Vortex Sutra Part 3; Pacific High Studio Mantras (Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum); Pacific High Studio Mantras (Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum); First Party at Ken Kesey's With Hell's Angels; First Party at Ken Kesey's With Hell's Angels; Who Be Kind To; Who Be Kind To; A Dream; A Dream; School Boy; School Boy; Voice of the Bard; Voice of the Bard; The Fly; The Fly; Infant Joy; Infant Joy; A Cradle Song; A Cradle Song; City Midnight Junk Strains (For Frank O'Hara); City Midnight Junk Strains (For Frank O'Hara); Nurse's Song (Experience); Nurse's Song (Experience); The Sick Rose; The Sick Rose; Laughing Song; Laughing Song; Little Boy Lost / Little Boy Found; Little Boy Lost / Little Boy Found; The Lamb; The Lamb; The Echoing Green; The Echoing Green; I Am a Victim of Telephone; I Am a Victim of Telephone; The End; The End; Wales Visitation; Wales Visitation; The 1994 release of 'Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Poems and Songs 1949 - 1993 (disc 3: Ah!)'; Guru; Guru; Kral Majales (King of May); Kral Majales (King of May); To Aunt Rose; To Aunt Rose; Kaddish (For Naomi Ginsberg 1894-1956); Kaddish (For Naomi Ginsberg 1894-1956); The 1994 release of 'Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Poems and Songs 1949 - 1993 (disc 2: Caw! Caw!)'; Death to Van Gogh's Ear; Death to Van Gogh's Ear; Green Valentine Blues; Green Valentine Blues; Sunflower Sutra; Sunflower Sutra; America; Footnote to Howl; Footnote to Howl; Howl (For Carl Solomon); Howl (For Carl Solomon); A Supermarket in California; A Supermarket in California; The Green Automobile; The Green Automobile; A Mad Gleam; A Mad Gleam; Walking at Night in Key West; Walking at Night in Key West; The 1994 release of 'Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Poems and Songs 1949 - 1993 (disc 1: Moloch!)'; Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Poems and Songs 1949 - 1993; Howl; Howl; Prayer Blues; Prayer Blues; Airplane Blues; Airplane Blues; Bird Brain; Bird Brain; My Pretty Rose Tree; My Pretty Rose Tree; Do the Meditation Rock; Do the Meditation Rock; The 1983 release of 'Meditation Rock'; Meditation Rock; America; America

Religion

Judaism

Influenced

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John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Hunter S. Thompson, Patti Smith,  …

Saul Williams, Neal Cassady, Amiri Baraka, Robert Lowell, Wavy Gravy, Beau Sia, Michael McClure, John S. Hall, Diane Wakoski, Elizabeth Young, Gary Forrester, Charles Plymell, John Most, Mircea Cărtărescu

Born During

1920s

Died During

the 1990s

Attributes

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Jewish, Jewish person, Postmodernism, male, Ashkenazi Jews,  …

American Jews, dead

Influence

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Gautama Buddha, William Blake, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Walt Whitman,  …

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ezra Pound, Herman Melville, Arthur Rimbaud, Fritz Lang, Jean Genet, Wavy Gravy, Gregory Corso, Hart Crane, Richard Evans Schultes, John Keats, Elizabeth Young, Gary Forrester, Charles Plymell

Related Websites

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4dht8Nufx8, http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/ginsberg/interviews.htm, http://www.lensculture.com/ginsberg.html?thisPic=100, http://www.ginsbergmovie.com, http://www.vlib.us/beats/wsbginsberg.html,  …

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5c6004hb, http://meaning.com/wiki/How_Allen_Died, http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3003&Itemid=0, http://www.kerouacalley.com/ginsberg.html, http://www.allenginsbergdvd.com, http://research.hrc.utexas.edu, http://www.sondralondon.com/attract/ginsberg/index.htm, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6393328, http://www.poets.org/agins, http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1011318964326139723, http://www.allenginsberg.org

Influences

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William Shakespeare, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, William Carlos Williams, Neal Cassady,  …

Antonin Artaud, Tristan Tzara, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Christopher Smart, Richard Evans Schultes

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DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Allen_Ginsberg

Middle-name

"Allen"

Birthday

the 3rd of June

Quotes

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"Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture."; "The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction."; "The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive."; "Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels."; "Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.";  …

"My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed."; "I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator."; "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."; "Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh."; "Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!"; "America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?"

Freebase Primary MID

"/m/0lrh"

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"8fc551bc-0c60-43fd-a234-2776561c2b18"

IMDB Page

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0320091/