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PHILADELPHIA: Quick, talented, and controversial, Allen Iverson was drafted No. 1 so that he could lead the Philadelphia 76ers out of the NBA's swamp. The 6-foot point guard didn't do that -- the Sixers were, if anything, worse this year. But he did win rookie of the year. Despite racking up impressive statistics, Iverson took nearly as many shots from NBA veterans as he did at the basket--and that's a lot. Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan lambasted Iverson for not having enough respect for the game and too much for himself. Accepting the award, Iverson tried...
Local poets gathered last night to pay tribute to Allen Ginsberg, the beat poet who wrote, "America, I have given you all, and now I am nothing...
...DIED. ALLEN GINSBERG, 70, quintessential beatnik poet; of a heart attack brought on by chronic liver disease; in New York City. Forming the trinity of the 1950s Beat Generation along with William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, Ginsberg first raged into public view in 1956 with Howl, a profane tirade that railed against a conformist society and dealt, rather graphically, with his homosexuality. In the '60s and '70s, he was active in both the hippie and antiwar movements. His poetry prefigured punk and New Age, encompassing protest and psychedelics, drawing inspiration from yoga, Buddhism, Native American mysticism, the Torah and fellow...
...Allen Ginsberg has inspired and will continue to inspire all of us," said Catherine A. Solmons, a Boston Phoenix poetry editor who read selections from one of the poet's more famous collections, "Reality Sandwiches." "He was the first to make people feel poets could be pop stars...
Powers said he and Ginsberg became friends in the late 1950s as part of a larger local poetry community. "Allen sprung the trap for me, and I was out as a being," he said...