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Ginsberg's Icon- Busting Poem Resonates in the Patriot Act Era
Fifty years ago, an unpublished 28-year-old American poet came into the United States at Mexicali dreaming of literary glory. His name was Allen Ginsberg, and after traveling from New York to Havana and through the jungles of Mexico, he was eager to write the great American poem. It was time for him to take his rightful place, or so he thought, with Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams in the poet pantheon.
In California in 1954 . the year the nation began to emerge from McCarthyism, the Korean War and legal segregation in the South . Ginsberg began to shed his New York skin and cast himself as a wild West Coast poet. He wanted to write an explosive, apocalyptic poem befitting the Atomic Age. He would sing of himself and his country, with its "infernal bombs," "industries / of night" and "dreams / of war." Nothing would stop him, not his own "solitary craze" and certainly not the conformity of the times . the Eisenhower era, the Cold War . that seemed so antithetical to rebels with or without causes.
I remember taking this pic in San Francisco. I’ve probably already posted it somewhere, but it’s still a neat pic,...
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