Finally I finished reading this overwhelming 500 pages biography by Allen Ginsberg. Another gem I've got from Booksale. Before I just know his name from a Sonic Youth song Hits For Sunshine from the album A Thousand Leaves. This book is a great a help for anyone who is interested to Allen Ginsberg. Here is a quote from the pages that would best sum up what this book and Allen Ginsberg is all about: For Ginsberg poetry, philosophy, political action and personal expression go hand in hand. His biggest battles have been with society and with himself. His entire career, as lived in public and documented in his poetry and journals, has been a struggle to explore and express his own awareness, and to protect the right of others to do the same. His is a fight for life, for individual freedom, against the incursions of social forces.
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