Allen Ginsberg Poetry Readings
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Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet born in Newark, New Jersey. Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), a long poem about consumer society's negative human values.
Ginsberg's poetry was strongly influenced by modernism, romanticism, the beat and cadence of jazz, and his Kagyu Buddhist practice and Jewish background. He considered himself to have inherited the visionary and homoerotic poetic mantle handed from the English poet and artist William Blake on to Walt Whitman. The power of Ginsberg's verse, its searching, probing focus, its long and lilting lines, as well as its New World exuberance, all echo the continuity of inspiration which he claimed. Other influences included the American poet William Carlos Williams.
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Howl, March 15, 2008
Reviewer: Dharmabum
One's expectations are certainly lowered when you hear the author say that the heart has gone out of him to read his poem. That aside, hearing Ginsberg read his poem a year after I was born was a revelatory experience. I tried to let it wash over me the way I thought it was written. Ginsberg regains his footing about half-way through his reading. This enhances the experience. I need to listen to it several more times to absorb its message. Having his words spill over me like a cleansing rain reminded me about what life is all about. I am continuing to absorb his message. I now really want to see the contrast of his reading after 40 years of experience. Life is art is life is...
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