Death Already ailing from hepatitis and congestive heart failure, among other health issues, Ginsberg was diagnosed with liver cancer in the spring of 1997. He died shortly after on April 5, 1997, in his East Village loft surrounded by friends and old lovers. He was 70 years old. A massive...
they traveled to Tangier to stay with Burroughs and help him assemble the manuscript later published as his novel Naked Lunch (1959). In 1958 Ginsberg returned to New York City, still troubled by his mother's death in the mental hospital two years before, haunted by the thought that he had...
"I am but Ginsberg an exception, for some reason he pleased me." "I forgot whether I was straight gay queer or funny, was myself, tender and affectionate to be kissed on the top of my head, my forehead throat heart & solar plexus, mid-belly. on my prick, tickled with his tongue ...
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. Are you going to let your emotional life be run by TIME magazine? You don't have to be right. All you have to do is be candid. Fierce hunger, hair, and teeth, and the roar of bone pain, skull...
For his mother, Ginsberg wrote a Kaddish on the occasion of her death - just 3 years before this poem for his father. It is but one part of a six or seven part series, and he is clearly exploring religious traditions in the face of death, loss. 12 6 Reply goerge 22 November ...
Allen Ginsberg Poems Under silver wing San Francisco's towers sprouting thru thin gas clouds, Tamalpais black-breasted above Pacific azure Berkeley hills pine-covered below-- Dr Leary in his brown house scribing Independence Declaration typewriter at window...
September On Jessore Road by Allen Ginsberg - Millions of babies watching the skies Bellies swollen, with big round eyes On Jessore Road--long bamboo huts Noplace