USA 1988, video, col, sound, 27:00 min
- realized by:
- Video Data Bank
- keywords:
- interview
- cast&crew:
- appearance:
- Allen Ginsberg
- available copies:
- Video Data Bank:
- video, sound
- available for rent
- synopsis: Video Data Bank, Chicago
- Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1926. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began close friendships with William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and Jack Kerouac. Ginsberg was a leading American poet who gained notoriety in the 1950s and 1960s through his identification with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance. One of the most controversial poets of his time, his book Howl and Other Poems instigated an obscenity trial in 1957, and became one of the most widely read poems, published in twenty-two languages. In the 1960s and '70s, Ginsberg studied under gurus and Zen masters. He went on to cofound the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Colorado. In his later years he became a Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College. He died in 1997 in New York City.
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