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Essay: Allen Ginsberg and America (Or: How He Learned to Ignore Propaganda and Laugh at the Bomb)

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“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.” — Allen Ginsberg Like most people living in the United States circa the 1950s, the prolific poet, Allen Ginsberg, was frightened by the threat of nuclear war (Raskin 183). The near-complete annihilation of the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945 had caused the American public […]

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