Allen Ginsberg — At Reed College: The First Recorded Reading Of Howl & Other Poems

The artist

About Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he befriended Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions. Best known for his poem "Howl", Ginsberg denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. San Francisco police and US Customs seized copies of "Howl" in 1956 and a 1957 obscenity trial attracted widespread publicity due to the poem's language and descriptions of heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time when sodomy laws criminalized male homosexual acts in every state.

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The release

About At Reed College: The First Recorded Reading Of Howl & Other Poems

At Reed College: The First Recorded Reading Of Howl & Other Poems is a release by Allen Ginsberg. Issued on 2 April 2021 by OMNIVORE RECORDINGS. This edition is supplied as LP with 11 tracks. Musically, it sits within Other / Unclassified.