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Biography:
Born June 03, 1926 - Widely proclaimed as the preeminent "underground" American poet of the postwar years, Allen Ginsberg (together with his colleagues Jack Kerouac, Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, et al.) not only defined and epitomized Beat literature but vocalized the long inchoate yearnings of 1950s and '60s counterculture youth. An unrepentant reb... Continue Bio >>

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Filmography:
2009 Ferlinghetti
2008 Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
2004 Ned Rorem: Word & Music
2001 Jonas at the Ocean
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Discography:
Songs of Innocence and Experience
2006 First Blues
2004 Wichita Vortex Sutra
2004 Ginsberg's Thing
2002 New York Blues: Rags, Ballads & Harmonium Songs
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