- Paperback
- Publisher: Gotham Book Mart (1972)
- ISBN-10: 0910664196
- ISBN-13: 978-0910664196
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,413,454 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Allen Ginsberg was born in 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, a son of Naomi Ginsberg and lyric poet Louis Ginsberg. In 1956 he published his signal poem, Howl, one of the most widely read and translated poems of the century. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, awarded the medal of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French minister of culture in 1993, and co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute, the first accredited Buddhist college in the Western world, Allen Ginsberg died on April 5, 1997.
