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Ginsberg

American  
[ginz-burg] / ˈgɪnz bɜrg /

noun

  1. Allen, 1926–97, U.S. poet associated with the Beat Generation.


Ginsberg British  
/ ˈɡɪnzbɜːɡ /

noun

  1. Allen. 1926–97, US poet of the Beat Generation. His poetry includes Howl (1956) and Kaddish (1960)

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With performers including Billy Connolly, Whoopi Goldberg and American poet Allen Ginsberg, a key figure in the Beat movement, the venue was an outlet for Glasgow's counter culture.

From BBC

“As an international organization, we know that the treatment of journalists is a leading indicator of the condition of a country’s democracy,” CPJ Chief Executive Jodie Ginsberg said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times

Marsha Ginsberg’s set featured an open-sided gold box that rotated and moved on and off stage—it became the scriptorium and the abbot’s domain.

From The Wall Street Journal

The hilarious essay on Allen Ginsberg describes a fateful night in 1958 that Podhoretz spent arguing with the manic poet himself as Jack Kerouac sat silently by.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yeats; in another he salutes Allen Ginsberg and other Beat poets; in a third he devotes the entirety of the piece to Arthur Rimbaud.

From The Wall Street Journal