Allen Ginsberg — "If homosexuality is a disease, let’s all call in queer to work."
If homosexuality is a disease, let’s all call in queer to work.
If homosexuality is a disease, let’s all call in queer to work.
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"Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks!"
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
"I'm a presence, but I'm not a specter."
"Capitalism is cannibalism. It eats people."
"I'm a son, but I'm not a mama's boy."
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.
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