Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

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Allen Ginsberg(1926-1997)

• Jessica R
• Period 6
• 04-16-03

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The Life of Allen Ginsberg

• Born on June 3, 1926
• Born in Newark, New Jersey
• Went through school then went onto Columbia
  University
• Befriended other poets
• Allen Ginsberg is a gay poet

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Education

• In the 1940s, Allen Ginsberg attended Columbia
  University
• He graduated from there and moved to San
  Francisco
• In San Francisco, he pursued writing and took
  classes
• He also taught literature classes

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Ginsbergs Family

• Lived in New Jersey through Allen Ginsbergs
  childhood
• He was the son of Louis Ginsberg
• Louis Ginsberg was also a writer

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Ginsbergs Works

•     The Fall of America Poems of These States,
  1965-1971 (1972)     The Gates of Wrath Rhymed
  Poems, 1948-1951 (1972)     New Year Blues
  (1972)     Bixby Canyon Ocean Path Word Breeze
  (1972)     The Fall of America Poems of these
  States (1973)     Iron Horse (1973)     Sad
  Dust Glories (1975)     First Blues Rags,
  Ballads, and Harmonium Songs 1971-1974 (1975)
      Mind Breaths Poems 1971-1976 (1978)
      Careless Love Two Rhymes (1978)     Poems
  All Over the Place Mostly Seventies (1978)
      Selected Gay Poems and Correspondence (1979)
  
•     Mostly Sitting Haiku (1979)
      Straight Heart's Delight Love Poems and
  Selected Letters, 1947-1980 (1980)
•    Plutonian Ode Poems 1977-1980 (1982)
      Many Loves (1984)     Collected Poems,
  1947-1980 (1984)     Old Love Story (1986)
      White Shroud Poems 1980-1985 (1986)
      Kaddish For Naomi Ginsberg, 1894-1956 (1992)
      Cosmopolitan Greetings Poems, 1986-1992
  (1994)

•  Howl and Other Poems (1956)     Siesta in
  Xbalba and Return to the States (1956)     Empty
  Mirror Early Poems (1961)     Kaddish and Other
  Poems, 1958-1960 (1961)     A Strange New
  Cottage in Berkeley (1963)     Reality
  Sandwiches, 1953-1960 (1963)     Penguin Modern
  Poets 5 (1963)     The Change (1963)     Kral
  Majales (1965)     Wichita Vortex Sutra (1966)
      T. V. Baby Poems (1967)     Wales--A
  Visitation, July 29, 1967 (1968)     Scrap
  Leaves, Hasty Scribbles (1968)     Messages II
  (1968)     Planet News, 1961-1967 (1968)
• Airplane Dreams Compositions from Journals
  (1968)     Ankor-Wat (1969)     The Moments
  Return (1970)     Notes After an Evening with
  William Carlos Williams (1970)
•     The Fall of America Poems of These States,
  1965-1971 (1972)     The Gates of Wrath Rhymed
  Poems, 1948-1951 (1972)     New Year Blues
  (1972)

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More Works

• The Moments Return (1970)     Notes After an
  Evening with William Carlos Williams (1970)
      The Fall of America Poems of These States,
  1965-1971 (1972)     The Gates of Wrath Rhymed
  Poems, 1948-1951 (1972)     New Year Blues
  (1972)     Bixby Canyon Ocean Path Word Breeze
  (1972)     The Fall of America Poems of these
  States (1973)     Iron Horse (1973)     Sad
  Dust Glories (1975)     First Blues Rags,
  Ballads, and Harmonium Songs 1971-1974 (1975)
      Mind Breaths Poems 1971-1976 (1978)
      Careless Love Two Rhymes (1978)     Poems
  All Over the Place Mostly Seventies (1978)
      Selected Gay Poems and Correspondence (1979)
  
•     Mostly Sitting Haiku (1979)
      Straight Heart's Delight Love Poems and
  Selected Letters, 1947-1980 (1980)
•    Plutonian Ode Poems 1977-1980 (1982)

•         Straight Heart's Delight Love Poems and
  Selected Letters, 1947-1980 (1980)
•    Plutonian Ode Poems 1977-1980 (1982)    
• Straight Heart's Delight Love Poems and Selected
  Letters, 1947-1980 (1980)
•    Plutonian Ode Poems 1977-1980 (1982)
• Selected Gay Poems and Correspondence (1979)
•     Mostly Sitting Haiku (1979)
      Straight Heart's Delight Love Poems and
  Selected Letters, 1947-1980 (1980)
•    Plutonian Ode Poems 1977-1980 (1982)
      Many Loves (1984)     Collected Poems,
  1947-1980 (1984)     Old Love Story (1986)
      White Shroud Poems 1980-1985 (1986)
      Kaddish For Naomi Ginsberg, 1894-1956 (1992)
      Cosmopolitan Greetings Poems, 1986-1992
  (1994)

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CITATION PAGE

• Picture on slide 4 and some information
• http//www.levity.com/corduroy/ginsberg.htm
• Most slides Information
• www.poets.org
• The list of Ginsbergs work taken from
• www.poets.org