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'The Lion for Real': Starved for IdentityAllen Ginsberg's poem, '..."The Lion for Real,' describes the tortuous effects of conforming to society and disregarding one's own identity. This article analyzes how Ginsberg uses the image of a starved lion to represent unfulfilled desires.- Walt Whitman's Influence on Allen GinsbergThe voice that shaped Leaves of Grass has also shaped the work of Allen Ginsberg, the Beat poet whose most famous work is directly reminiscent of Walt Whitman.
- I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen GinsbergMorgan's book is a strict biographical approach to the author's life, not necessarily a literary biography by definition. Morgan leaves the deciphering of the poems' meanings to Schumacher's The Dharma Lion and to Miles's Ginsberg: A Biography.
- Allen Ginsberg: A Man of Many VisionsAn exploration of Allen Ginsberg, possibly the most influential member of the Beat Generation, and his "visions."
Allen Ginsberg, American PoetA biography of beat poet Allen Ginsberg- Allen Ginsberg, Rick Rubin and the Beatles: Which Came First, the Beard or the Mystical Attitude?A lighthearted attempt to pose a pseudo philosphical question in the hopes that I could grow a thicker beard.
- Allen Ginsberg: America's VoiceA brief profile of Allan Ginsberg and his work.
- Allen Ginsberg's a Supermarket in California and Condemnation of American ConsumerismThis essay highlights Allen Ginsberg's poem.
- Book Review: HOWL and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergAllen Ginsberg, HOWL and Other Poems(City Lights Books, 2001) 60 pages, poetry, $7.95 U.S.
- When I First Heard of Allen GinsbergWhile hitchhiking through the Midwest I met two kindred souls...
Quintessence : Take 5 HaikusOld beats fade into memory and new ones are born. Something may be lost in the transition.- Allen Ginsberg: Poet Whose Work Led to Rap MusicBy the age of 30, Ginsberg would be briefly imprisoned for charges of obscenity produced against his first book, Howl and Other Poems (1956). This is his story.
- Spontaneous Mind: A Collection of Interviews with Poet Allen GinsbergBook Review on Spontaneous Mind, a collection of interviews collected by editor David Carter on the beatnik poet Allen Ginsberg.