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Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997 / New Jersey / United States)
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Allen Ginsberg, born in Newark, N.J., June 3, 1926, is an American poet and leading apostle of the beat generation. His first published work, 'How .. more >>
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  ''What did I notice? Particulars! The
vision of the great One is myriad—''
Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Wales Visitation (l. 93-94). . . Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.
 
  ''The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the
biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.''
Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. World Karma, White Shroud (1986).
 
  ''Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.''
Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. "A Collective Portrait of Andy Warhol," Andy Warhol: A Retrospective (1986).
 
  Are you being sinister or is this some form of practical joke?
I'm trying to come to the point.
I refuse to give up my obsession.
America stop pushing I know what I'm doing.
Americ...
Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. America (l. 21-25). . . Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.
 
  I'd better get right down to the job.
It's true I don't want to join the Army or turn lathes in
precision parts factories, I'm nearsighted and psychopathic anyway.
America I'm putting m...
Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. America (l. 72-74). . . Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.
 
  ''Asia is rising against me.
I haven't got a chinaman's chance.''
Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. America (l. 48-49). . . Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.
 
  ''America how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?''
Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. America (l. 55). . . Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.
 
  ''America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.''
Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. "America," Howl and Other Poems (1956). Last line.
 
  ''America when will you be angelic?
When will you take off your clothes?
When will you look at yourself through the grave?
When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites?''
Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. America (l. 8-11). . . Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.
 
  ''America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.''
Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. America (l. 1). . . Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.
 

 
 
 
 
 
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