{"id":208,"date":"2015-07-09T16:23:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T16:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/americanlit2x22x1\/?post_type=chapter&p=208"},"modified":"2015-07-09T16:23:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T16:23:57","slug":"biography-allen-ginsberg","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/vccs-eng242-17fa\/chapter\/biography-allen-ginsberg\/","title":{"raw":"Biography: Allen Ginsberg","rendered":"Biography: Allen Ginsberg"},"content":{"raw":"Irwin Allen Ginsberg<\/b> (June 3, 1926 \u2013 April 5, 1997) was an American poet and one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the counterculture that soon would follow. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression. Ginsberg is best known for his epic poem \"Howl,\" in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and\u00a0conformity in the United States.<\/sup>\r\n\r\nIn 1957, \"Howl\" attracted widespread publicity when it became the subject of an obscenity trial, as it depicted heterosexual and homosexual sex\u00a0at a time when sodomy laws made homosexual acts a crime in every U.S. state. \"Howl\" reflected Ginsberg's own homosexuality and his relationships with a number of men, includingPeter Orlovsky, his lifelong partner.\u00a0Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that \"Howl\" was not obscene, adding, \"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?\"\r\n\r\nGinsberg was a practicing Buddhist who studied Eastern religious disciplines extensively. He lived modestly, buying his clothing in second-hand stores and residing in downscale apartments in New York\u2019s East Village.\u00a0One of his most influential teachers was the Tibetan Buddhist, the Venerable Ch\u00f6gyam Trungpa, founder of the\u00a0Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.\u00a0At Trungpa's urging, Ginsberg and poet Anne Waldman started The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics there in 1974.\r\n\r\nGinsberg took part in decades of non-violent political protest against everything from the Vietnam War to the War on Drugs.\u00a0His poem \"September on Jessore Road,\" calling attention to the plight of Bangladeshi refugees, exemplifies what the literary critic Helen Vendler\u00a0described as Ginsberg's tireless persistence in protesting against \"imperial politics, and persecution of the powerless.\"\r\n\r\nHis collection The Fall of America<\/i> shared the annual U.S. National Book Award for Poetry in 1974.\u00a0In 1979 he received the National Arts Club gold medal and was inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.\u00a0In 1986 he was awarded the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings in Struga, Macedonia.\u00a0Ginsberg was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1995 for his book Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986\u20131992<\/i>.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Allen Ginsberg in 1979<\/div><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Born<\/th>\r\nIrwin Allen Ginsberg\r\nJune 3, 1926\r\nNewark, New Jersey, United States<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Died<\/th>\r\nApril 5, 1997 (aged\u00a070)\r\nNew York City, United States<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Occupation<\/th>\r\nWriter, poet<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Nationality<\/th>\r\nAmerican<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Alma\u00a0mater<\/th>\r\nMontclair State College,\r\nColumbia University<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Literary movement<\/th>\r\nBeat literature, Hippie<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Notable awards<\/th>\r\nNational Book Award\r\n{1974}<\/small>\r\n\r\nRobert Frost Medal (1986)<\/small><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Partner<\/th>\r\nPeter Orlovsky\r\n1954\u20131997 (Ginsberg's death)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Irwin Allen Ginsberg<\/b> (June 3, 1926 \u2013 April 5, 1997) was an American poet and one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the counterculture that soon would follow. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression. Ginsberg is best known for his epic poem “Howl,” in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and\u00a0conformity in the United States.<\/sup><\/p>\n

In 1957, “Howl” attracted widespread publicity when it became the subject of an obscenity trial, as it depicted heterosexual and homosexual sex\u00a0at a time when sodomy laws made homosexual acts a crime in every U.S. state. “Howl” reflected Ginsberg’s own homosexuality and his relationships with a number of men, includingPeter Orlovsky, his lifelong partner.\u00a0Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that “Howl” was not obscene, adding, “Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?”<\/p>\n

Ginsberg was a practicing Buddhist who studied Eastern religious disciplines extensively. He lived modestly, buying his clothing in second-hand stores and residing in downscale apartments in New York\u2019s East Village.\u00a0One of his most influential teachers was the Tibetan Buddhist, the Venerable Ch\u00f6gyam Trungpa, founder of the\u00a0Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.\u00a0At Trungpa’s urging, Ginsberg and poet Anne Waldman started The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics there in 1974.<\/p>\n

Ginsberg took part in decades of non-violent political protest against everything from the Vietnam War to the War on Drugs.\u00a0His poem “September on Jessore Road,” calling attention to the plight of Bangladeshi refugees, exemplifies what the literary critic Helen Vendler\u00a0described as Ginsberg’s tireless persistence in protesting against “imperial politics, and persecution of the powerless.”<\/p>\n

His collection The Fall of America<\/i> shared the annual U.S. National Book Award for Poetry in 1974.\u00a0In 1979 he received the National Arts Club gold medal and was inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.\u00a0In 1986 he was awarded the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings in Struga, Macedonia.\u00a0Ginsberg was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1995 for his book Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986\u20131992<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Born<\/th>\nIrwin Allen Ginsberg
\nJune 3, 1926
\nNewark, New Jersey, United States<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Died<\/th>\nApril 5, 1997 (aged\u00a070)
\nNew York City, United States<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Occupation<\/th>\nWriter, poet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nationality<\/th>\nAmerican<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alma\u00a0mater<\/th>\nMontclair State College,
\nColumbia University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Literary movement<\/th>\nBeat literature, Hippie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Notable awards<\/th>\nNational Book Award
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Robert Frost Medal (1986)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Partner<\/th>\nPeter Orlovsky
\n1954\u20131997 (Ginsberg’s death)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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