To William Burroughs, it was “insufferable” – a sign that The Man was reaching his tendrils deep into a poet’s psyche. To some Beats and fellow travelers, Allen Ginsberg’s time in ...

Ginsberg. The latter, to the considerable surprise of most of the audience, which had come in search of a sideshow, was an unexpectedly "serious" poet, especially in the long prose poem ...

Allen Ginsberg's iconic poem 'Howl' begins, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical...." This was unfortunately the inevitable end for many members of what ...

Shot just two years before Ginsberg's death, the film follows the two friends as they share poetry and laughs, wandering the streets of the Lower East Manhattan, musing about the past and ...