allen ginsberg

The Protests of Ginsberg and Di Prima as Marginalized Minorities

There is nothing more American than a protest, than questioning authority and rebelling in the name of justice. As a…

6 years ago

Allen Ginsberg Changed My Life

I don’t know where it was that I first read Allen Ginsberg, but strangely enough, I wanted to follow in…

6 years ago

Virgules / After Cézanne

In his 1966 interview for The Paris Review, Ginsberg recounts his early preoccupation with Cézanne’s juxtaposition of color: “I suddenly…

6 years ago

A Shoe that Fits the Mind – Ginsberg’s South American Journals

In 1960, Allen Ginsberg accepted an invitation to attend a poetry conference in Chile. The conference was to last only…

6 years ago

“Howl” Continues to Offend in the Era of Tabloid Journalism

It should be of little surprise that Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” was at the heart of a debate about what is…

6 years ago

Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

In his recent book, Straight Around Allen, Bob Rosenthal begins a chapter with this statement: Allen considers the interview to…

6 years ago

Insanity in Ginsberg’s and Epstein’s Howl from a Foucauldian Point of View

…the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be…

6 years ago

Moving Towards the Light: the Triumph of Spirituality in the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg

‘Sunflower Sutra’ Ginsberg’s ‘Sunflower Sutra’ bursts with a range of vivid imagery, connecting the pastoral with a landscape of urban…

6 years ago

Allen’s Buddhism

The following is an excerpt from Jacob Rabinowitz’s new book, Blame it on Blake: a memoir of dead languages, gender…

6 years ago

New Book: World Citizen

David S. Wills' new book, World Citizen: Allen Ginsberg as Traveller, is now on sale. World Citizen looks at the…

7 years ago

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