We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter - Allen Ginsberg

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We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

Allen Ginsberg

Howl and Other Poems · 2001 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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About Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (3 June 1926 – 5 April 1997) was an American poet born in Newark, New Jersey. He was a central figure among Beat Generation writers. Ginsberg is best known for "Howl", a long poem about consumer society's negative human values.

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Birth Name: Irwin Allen Ginsberg

Alternative Names: Alan Ginsberg

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"Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"]"

Happiness exists I feel it.
I cried for my soul, I cried for the world's soul.
The world has a beautiful soul.

The madman bum and angel beat in time with the absolute heart of the poem butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years