Allen Ginsberg — "I am a vessel, and I am a channel, and I am a conduit, and I am a messenger, and…"
I am a vessel, and I am a channel, and I am a conduit, and I am a messenger, and I am a witness, and I am a participant.
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About Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
American Beat poet whose Howl (1956) faced an obscenity trial and became a counterculture manifesto. Closely associated with Jack Kerouac (Beat novelist, On the Road) and William S. Burroughs (fellow Beat, Naked Lunch). For an intellectual contrast, see T.S. Eliot, high-modernist poet of The Waste Land — Ginsberg's open-line confessional Beat verse was a deliberate rejection of Eliot's allusive academic formalism — the two halves of mid-century American poetry.