Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg was born on Jun 03, 1926 in USA. Allen Ginsberg's big-screen debut came with Chappaqua directed by Conrad Rooks in 1966, strarring Messiah. Allen Ginsberg is known for The Fifties directed by Tracy Dahlby, Edward Herrmann stars as Narrator and David Halberstam as Self. The upcoming new movie Allen Ginsberg plays is Howl which will be released on Aug 27, 2010.

Louis Ginsberg, the moderate Jewish Socialist and his wife Naomi, who was a radical Communist and irrepressible nudist are the parents of Irwin Allen Ginsberg, the poet and man of many other things eg. actor. Poems he written eg. Howl, Six gallery, Sunflower Sutra ... His themes: drugs, against Vietnam War, politics, "beat generation", hippies, buddhism, ... In 1970 he met with a Tibetan guru and he accepted Trungpa Rinpoche as his personal guru. He created a poetry school 'Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics'. He has remained active, publishing poems, realising musical recordings. He published a book with his own photos.