Allen Ginsberg

Reality Sandwiches

Erotic and prophetic poems celebrating desire, travel, and spiritual transcendence

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Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg

American poet whose Howl, read at the Six Gallery in San Francisco in 1955, launched the Beat movement and introduced a Whitmanesque prophetic voice into postwar poetry. Kaddish is his elegy for his mother.

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