Allen Ginsberg was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as a winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1926, and died in New York City in 1997.
"Both an American publishing landmark and an immediate classic of international importance."-- "Choice""Ginsberg is both tragic and dynamic, a lyrical genius, con-man extraordinaire and probably the single greatest influence on American poetical voice since Walt Whitman."-- Bob Dylan"Ginsberg is responsible for loosening the breath of American poetry at mid-century . . . Most of all, [he] has demonstrated that there is nothing in American social and erotic reality which cannot find a place [there] . . . [His] powerful mixture of Blake, Whitman, Pound, and Williams, to which he added his own volatile, grotesque, and tender humor, has assured him a memorable place in modern poetry."-- Helen Vendler
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