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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.   Ginsberg, Allen

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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. · Can we improve this biography? Post your version

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