Allen Ginsberg Research Paper

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Allen Ginsberg Life
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Allen Ginsberg
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Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg 1979.jpg
Allen Ginsberg in 1979
Born Irwin Allen Ginsberg
June 3, 1926
Newark, New Jersey, United States
Died April 5, 1997 (aged 70)
New York City, New York, United States
Occupation Writer, poet
Nationality American
Alma mater Montclair State College,
Columbia University
Literary movement Beat literature, Hippie
Notable awards National Book Award
{1974}

Robert Frost Medal (1986)
Partner Peter Orlovsky
1954–1997 (Ginsberg's death)
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Irwin Allen Ginsberg (/ˈɡɪnzbərɡ/; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the counterculture that soon would follow. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression. Ginsberg is best known for his epic poem "Howl", in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States.[1][2][3]

In 1957, "Howl" attracted widespread publicity when it became the subject of an obscenity trial, as it depicted heterosexual and homosexual sex[4] at a time when sodomy laws made homosexual acts a crime in every U.S. state. "Howl" reflected Ginsberg's own homosexuality and his relationships with a number of men, including Peter Orlovsky, his lifelong partner.[5] Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that "Howl" was not obscene, adding, "Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"[6]

Ginsberg was a practicing Buddhist who studied Eastern religious disciplines extensively. He lived modestly, buying his clothing in second-hand stores and residing in downscale apartments in New York’s East Village.[7] One of his most influential teachers was the Tibetan Buddhist, the Venerable Chögyam Trungpa, founder of the Naropa Institute, now Naropa University at Boulder, Colorado.[8] At Trungpa's urging, Ginsberg and poet Anne Waldman started The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics there in 1974.[9]

Ginsberg took part in decades of non-violent political protest against everything from the Vietnam War to the War on Drugs.[10] His poem "September on Jessore Road," calling attention to the plight of Bangladeshi refugees, exemplifies what the literary critic Helen Vendler described as Ginsberg's tireless persistence in protesting against "imperial politics, and persecution of the powerless."[11]

His collection The Fall of America shared the annual U.S. National Book Award for Poetry in 1974.[12] In 1979 he received the National Arts Club gold medal and was inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.[13] In 1986 he was awarded the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings in Struga, Macedonia.[14] Ginsberg was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1995 for his book Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986–1992.[15]

Early life and family
Ginsberg was born into a Jewish[16] family in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Paterson.[17]
As a young teenager, Ginsberg began to write letters to The New York Times about political issues, such as World War II and workers' rights.[18] While in high school, Ginsberg began reading Walt Whitman, inspired by his teacher's passionate reading.[19]

In 1943, Ginsberg graduated from Eastside High School and briefly attended Montclair State College before entering Columbia University on a scholarship from the Young Men's Hebrew Association of Paterson.[20] In 1945, he joined the Merchant Marines to earn money to continue his education at Columbia.[21] While at Columbia, Ginsberg

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