ALLEN GINSBERG

Born 3 June 1926

Newark, New Jersey, America

Died 5 April 1997

New York, New York, America

I'm addressing you.

Are you going to let your emotional life be run by Time Magazine?

I'm obsessed by Time Magazine.

I read it every week.

Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore.

I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library.

It's always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious.

Movie producers are serious. Everybody's serious but me.

It occurs to me that I am America.

I am talking to myself again.

from America

Berkeley, January 17, 1956

Allen Ginsberg

Ink drawing by Allen Ginsberg
drawn on February 7, 1991 at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, New York City while signing Gregory Severance's copy of Howl: Original Draft Facsimile edited by Barry Miles.

Levi Asher's Ginsberg Tribute

Scrap Leaves:a book by Ginsberg

Ginsberg Selected Bibliography