Allen Ginsberg — "I'm a Buddhist. I'm a Jew. I'm a Communist. I'm a homosexual. I'm an old man. I'…"
I'm a Buddhist. I'm a Jew. I'm a Communist. I'm a homosexual. I'm an old man. I'm a young man. I'm a woman. I'm a child. I'm a black man. I'm a white man. I'm an American. I'm a Russian. I'm a Chinese. I'm a Martian. I'm a dog. I'm a cat. I'm a tree. I'm a flower. I'm a rock. I'm a river. I'm a mountain. I'm a star. I'm a galaxy. I'm a universe. I'm a god. I'm a devil. I'm nothing. I'm everything.
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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.
