Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg June 3 1926 April 5 1997 was an American poet He is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed He vigorously opposed militarism economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture such as his views on drugs hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as the Beat Generation which included famous writers such as Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs Description above from the Wikipedia article Allen Ginsberg licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia