Allen Ginsberg — "The only way to understand life is to live it, and the only way to understand de…"

The only way to understand life is to live it, and the only way to understand death is to die.
Allen Ginsberg — Allen Ginsberg Modern · Howl, Beat poet

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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.

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Date: 1980s

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