Allen ginsberg

“You don’t have to be right. All you have to do is be candid.” TRQ: Allen Ginsberg, Born June 3, 1926 Beat Generation writer and poet Allen Ginsberg, best known for his 1956 poem “Howl,” was born on June 3, 1926. A counterculture pacifist, Ginsberg is closely associated with writers and artists William Burroughs and […] More

Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady, San Francisco, 1963. photo: Allen Ginsberg Estate AG: next – oh yeah, Marlowe – ( (page) twenty-five) – “Come Live With Me And Be My Love” – remember that? – Everybody read that? This was my version of that. This is to Neal Cassady, but it isn’t very much in […]

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The two met in 1963 and they instantly hit it off. They collaborated together and Ginsberg would go on tour with Dylan on his 'Rolling Thunder Revue'.

American poet and leading figure of the Beat Generation Allen Ginsberg photographed in 1970.

The late Beat Generation icon Allen Ginsberg is still an outsider in his home state.

In the 1960s and 1970s, as America was in the midst of multiple revolutions, Richard Avedon became the ultimate chronicler of the heroes and horrors of the time—and one of his signature methods was to let his subjects strip down and show themselves for who they really were. As the curtain rises on a new retrospective of the legendary photographer’s work this month at Gagosian Gallery, we celebrate the master portraitist’s unabashed exploration of the body politic—in all its ragged glory

From Kill Your Darlings by Allen Ginsberg