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Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet born in Newark, New Jersey. Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), a long poem about consumer society's negative human values and the self-destruction of his friends among the beat generation. Ginsberg's poetry was strongly influenced by modernism, romanticism, the beat and cadence of jazz, early English prose-poetry, his Kagyu Buddhist practice and his Jewish background. Read more on Last.fm

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1america
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2A Supermarket in California
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3Howl
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4Strange New Cottage In Berkeley
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5Footnote To Howl
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6In The Back Of The Real
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7Transcription Of Organ Music
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8Europe! Europe!
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9Ballad of the Skeletons
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10The Sunflower Sutra
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