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...Ginsberg suffered a fatal heart attack on April 4, shortly after being diagnosed with terminal liver cancer...
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...
...Ginsberg was one of the founding members of the "Beat Generation" of poets who rejected mainstream values and sought a "beatific vision" through sex, drugs or meditation...
Nine Boston poets, including National Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, read Ginsberg's poetry in Science Center...
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...