San Francisco Renaissance
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The term San Francisco Renaissance is used as a global designation for a range of poetic activity centered on San Francisco, which brought it to prominence as a hub of the American poetry avant-garde
American poet Allen Ginsberg and Indian spiritual teacher A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in San Francisco (1967)
Allen Ginsberg
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Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he befriended Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat
Ginsberg in 1979
First edition cover of Ginsberg's landmark poetry collection, Howl and Other Poems (1956)
Ginsberg with his partner, poet Peter Orlovsky. Photo taken in 1978
Portrait with Bob Dylan, taken in 1975