Biography
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture, such as his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as the Beat Generation, which included famous writers such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allen Ginsberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- John Jay Award · 1993
- Golden Wreath · 1986
- Robert Frost Medal · 1986
- National Book Award · 1974
- National Book Award — Poetry · 1974
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- Guggenheim Fellowship
- War Resisters League Peace Award
- Pulitzer Prize — Poetry · 1995 · nominated
- National Book Award — Poetry · 1974 · nominated
Filmography34 titles
Greetings from Washington, D.C.
Good Will Hunting
Poetry in Motion
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back
How the Beatles Changed the World
Guns of the Trees
One to One: John & Yoko
Diaries Notes and Sketches
70 Years of Youth Revolt
Brakhage
Lost, Lost, Lost
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
Norman Mailer: The American
Burroughs: The Movie
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
The Velvet Underground
The Dick Cavett Show
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
The Cockettes
Take Your Pills
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Before Stonewall
Howl
Herostratus
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Berkeley in the Sixties
Heavy Petting
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
The Source
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music