Allen Ginsberg
Biography
The greatest poet of the Beat movement and one of the most renowned American writers of the 20th century, Allen Ginsberg transcended literary and intellectual barriers to exert a profound influence on the culture at large. His accomplishments are too numerous and his oeuvre too large for a music reference resource to do them justice; many other sources exist that offer more complete perspectives on his life and work. Ginsberg made sporadic recordings of his work, both formal and otherwise, starting in his heyday of the late '50s and continuing into the '90s. Most of them were poetry readings, naturally, but Ginsberg also experimented with songs, often accompanying his singing on the harmonium.. Irwin Allen Ginsberg was born June 3, 1926, in Newark, NJ, and grew up in nearby Paterson. His father Louis was a published poet, a teacher, and politically a socialist; his mother Naomi was a Communist radical, but unfortunately her bouts with mental illness (mostly severe paranoia) consumed much of Ginsberg's childhood. He began writing in a journal at age 11, around the same time as his mother's suicide attempt, and discovered his major poetic influence Walt Whitman in high school. He enrolled at Columbia University in 1943, originally planning to become a labor lawyer, but soon fell in with a literary crowd that included Jack Kerouac (a fellow student), Neal Cassady, and William S. Burroughs. Ginsberg began writing seriously around 1945, and around the same time he began to experiment with drugs, and had some of his first homosexual experiences. He graduated from Columbia in 1948 and began traveling, visiting Burroughs in Texas; there he was arrested as a reluctant accomplice in his roommates' burglary ring, and voluntarily committed himself to Columbia's mental hospital. He attempted to renounce homosexuality and took a job as a market researcher upon his release, but hearing the poet William Carlos Williams at a reading drew him back into literature, and he gave up trying to fit into mainstream society.
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1. | Father Death Blues | Holy Soul Jelly Roll | 3:45 | $0.99 | |
2. | Airplane Bllues | Holy Soul Jelly Roll | 4:25 | $0.99 | |
3. | Vomit Express | Holy Soul Jelly Roll | 6:37 | $0.99 | |
4. | Capitol Air | Holy Soul Jelly Roll | 6:08 | $0.99 | |
5. | Amazing Grace (feat. Paul McCartney .. | Ballad of the Skeletons (fe.. | 2:50 | $0.99 | |
6. | Ballad of the Skeletons (feat. Paul .. | Ballad of the Skeletons (fe.. | 7:49 | $0.99 | |
7. | Pacific High Studio Mantras (2010 Re.. | Ballad of the Lights - Sing.. | 5:27 | $0.99 | |
8. | Ballad of the Lights | Ballad of the Lights - Sing.. | 5:36 | $0.99 | |
9. | Trip (feat. Allen Ginsberg & Ken.. | Lsd Voices of Timothy Leary.. | 9:47 | $0.99 | |
10. | America | Ultimate Poetry & Story.. | 8:45 | $0.99 | |
11. | My Sad Self (For Frank O'hara) [.. | Howl Plus Bonus Tracks | 2:50 | $0.99 | |
12. | Laughing Gas Part 1 (Robert Creeley&.. | Howl Plus Bonus Tracks | 4:38 | $0.99 | |
13. | Back on Times Square/Dreaming of Tim.. | Howl Plus Bonus Tracks | 1:09 | $0.99 | |
14. | To Lindsay (Poetry Centre, San Franc.. | Howl Plus Bonus Tracks | 0:41 | $0.99 | |
15. | Squeal (Poetry Centre, San Francisco.. | Howl Plus Bonus Tracks | 1:21 | $0.99 | |
16. | Poem Rocket (Poetry Centre, San Fran.. | Howl Plus Bonus Tracks | 4:17 | $0.99 | |
17. | America (Chicago Reading 1959) | Howl Plus Bonus Tracks | 4:37 | $0.99 | |
18. | Supermarket in California (Chicago R.. | Howl Plus Bonus Tracks | 2:09 | $0.99 | |
19. | Sunflower Sutra (Chicago Reading 195.. | Howl Plus Bonus Tracks | 4:28 | $0.99 | |
20. | America | Howl Plus Bonus Tracks | 4:47 | $0.99 | |
21. | Supermarket in California | Howl Plus Bonus Tracks | 2:17 | $0.99 | |
22. | Footnote to Howl | Howl Plus Bonus Tracks | 2:53 | $0.99 | |
23. | Sunflower Sutra | Howl Plus Bonus Tracks | 4:47 | $0.99 | |
24. | From N.S.A. Dope Calypso | Philip Glass: Hydrogen Juke.. | 5:39 | $0.99 | |
25. | From The Green Automobile | Philip Glass: Hydrogen Juke.. | 5:59 | $0.99 | |