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  1. Jan 27, 2002 · Allen Ginsberg: Biography. Renowned poet, world traveler, spiritual seeker, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human and civil rights, photographer and songwriter, political gadfly, teacher and co-founder of a poetics school.

  2. Apr 2, 2014 · Best Known For: Allen Ginsberg is one of the 20th century's most influential poets, regarded as a founding father of the Beat Movement and known for works like "Howl." Industries.

  3. Dec 29, 2002 · Allen Ginsberg, the visionary poet and founding father of the Beat generation inspired the American counterculture of the second half of the 20th century with groundbreaking poems such as “Howl”...

  4. Allen Ginsberg was an outspoken voice for human rights, gay liberation, freedom of speech and ecology. The most politically-engaged poet of the 20th century, he protested against the Vietnam War , nuclear weapons , sexual repression , censorship , corporate abuses , draconian drug laws , the FBI and the CIA , and spoke out for a new vision of ...

  5. Allen Ginsberg was one of the leading icons of the Beat movement, and "Howl" became one of the most widely read book of poems of the century, translated into more than twenty-two languages.

  6. a global provocateur. Allen Ginsberg made big waves on the global stage from the 1960s until his death in 1997. He visited Cuba at the height of US/Cuba tensions and was crowned Kral Majales (King of May) in Prague during a key moment of the Soviet Union/Czech crisis, in 1967.

  7. Allen Ginsberg was a celebrated 20th-century American poet. He was known for his post-war works, such as the poem ‘ Howl ,’ which was a groundbreaking piece of work at the time. Ginsberg was involved in a number of social causes throughout his life, advocating for sexual liberation, freedom of expression, and anti-establishment views.

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