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JEFFREY PAGE, Staff Writer
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
04-06-1997
GINSBERG LINKED BEAT GENERATION WITH MTV
By JEFFREY PAGE, Staff Writer
Date: 04-06-1997, Sunday
Section: NEWS
Edition: All Editions -- Sunday
Biographical: ALLEN GINSBERG

Allen Ginsberg's soaring American metaphors did for the poetry of
the 20th century what Walt Whitman's and Emily Dickinson's did for the
19th.

He was shocking. He was funny. He was ironic. He was bitter.

He was sentimental. But not too much.

Ginsberg was born in Newark, the son of Louis Ginsberg, himself a
respected poet who taught generations of students at Central High
School in Paterson, and Naomi Ginsberg. Allen Ginsberg traveled the
range of ...

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