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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Allen Ginsberg was the first figure of worldly repute to meet with Srila Prabhupada and to appreciate his fledgling Krsna consciousness movement.
Allen Ginsberg had been chanting Hare Krsna at about the same time Srila Prabhupada arrived in America, although each was unaware of the other.
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Todd Porter,
Gym Attendent
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Traces the course of Allen Ginsberg's often controversial career along with his very public statements about his homosexuality and drug abuse.
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Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator
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These changes are helping make Allen Ginsberg's harsh words seem more like attacks of poetic license, rather than reminders of a terrible period in psychiatric history.
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Tony Howell,
Skateboarder
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It was then that the writings of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg first set the counterculture stirring.
During World War II, Burroughs met Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, forming the core of the "Beat Generation.
While many wrote of him, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Ken Kesey left the best record of his life and his contribution to modern America.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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ALLEN GINSBERG returns to his first encounters with Jack Kerouac and the Beat Poets, the counterculture of the '60s, and the creation of "Howl," and traces the continuing influence of Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and William Carlos Williams.
Although Bukowski was never truly associated with Jack Kerouac , Allen Ginsberg , or other major Beat writers, his informal style and non-conforming literary approach has endeared him to readers of the Beat genre.
All the Beats were prolific writers of letters, and letters by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg have been published in one form or another.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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And very clearly Allen Ginsberg's ideas and reflections put forth a vision of the future and what society will be like in the future; entropy, largely.
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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The term " Beat " was reportedly coined by Jack Kerouac in the late 1940's, but became more common at about the time that writers like himself, Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti were beginning to get noticed.
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