Allen Ginsberg

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Bill Morgan, David Stanford (7)Buy new: $20.00 $13.05 73 used & new from $3.73(Visit the Best Sellers in Letters & Correspondence list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.)Buy from Amazon.comAll prices are grab on posted date from Amazon, Please check price before you checkout.Read Full Story

From Harry Potter's final chapter to the ultra spooky The Woman in Black to Kill Your Darlings, Daniel Radcliffe is on the move.  In the beat poets inspired thriller Kill Your Darlings, Radcliffe will portray the famous Allen Ginsberg, and we've got the first on set image of him from EW to prove it.  As you'll see below he definitely looks the part of Ginsberg, though he's no doppelganger. Young Radcliffe's spectacles and parted hairdo help seel the deal and convinced me he's kinda the man...Read Full Story

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The LettersEdited by Bill Morgan and David StanfordViking Press 499 pgs$14.95ISBN: 978-1-61129-305-0Oh shit, another collection of letters from Jack Kerouac. I can’t say no; I mean, after all, I graduated the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. So you might say that my mind swells with Kerouac. You know, it wasn’t that long ago I was living in the Bronx and walking with my buddy the late Michael Dyson, who was...Read Full Story

Everyone over the age of 16 should see the movie Howl, starring James Franco as American poet Allen Ginsberg. It's a brilliant film about a seminal American book. Every word of dialogue comes from Ginsberg's poetry and writings or the transcript of the obscenity trial to which the book's publisher was subjected. (The publisher won.) James Franco is a fine actor, and I like him in this, but I don't quite buy the illusion of him as Allen Ginsberg. He doesn't quite have the right spirit. Maybe...Read Full Story

Because I came of age in the late sixties, I was able to follow Ginsberg’s celebrated antics as they splayed out in that heady - at times turbulent - era of political activism.In addition to his outspoken controversial views on "Big Brother" - and issues related to intellectual freedom and the right to unchecked artistic expression in the land of the free - the well-educated writer also sought acceptance for homosexuals long before the term “gay” had ever been coined.For this reason alone...Read Full Story