Carlo Marx: Allen Ginsberg


Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg was born in 1926, in Newark, New Jersey. He began college in 1943 at Columbia College in New York. It was during his time at Columbia that he met William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and Neal Cassady. In 1948 while lying in bed Ginsberg had a vision of the poet William Blake that began his writing of poetic lieages. He moved to San Francisco in 1954 where he wrote and historically read his most popular poem, "Howl. Ginsberg passed away on my birthday last year, April 5, 1997.

Works by Ginsberg:
  1. "Howl"
  2. "America"
  3. "The Terms in Which I Think of Reality"
  4. Complaint of the Skeleton to Time
Revolutionaries- Allen Ginsberg
A good site on Allen Ginsberg with links to his poetry, pictures, and his mission in life.

Ginsberg...
A tribute site created after Allen's Death on April 5, 1997.

The Ballad of the Skeletons
A site about Allen's compilation CD with Paul McCartney.

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