Overview
Allen Ginsberg
Known For
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka,...
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film...
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
The 94-year-old Robert Frank’s unique recordings of his fellow artists...
How the Beatles Changed the World
The fascinating story of the cultural, social, spiritual, and musical...
Biography
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture, such as his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as the Beat Generation, which included famous writers such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allen Ginsberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.