[Old Teufel Hunden]

Allen Ginsburg was a beat poet. His poem “Howl” was banned in the 50’s.

[trisham]

His mother was mentally ill and spent much of her time in various mental hospitals.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Allen Ginsburg was a beat poet. His poem “Howl” was banned in the 50’s.

IMHO, "Howl" is a great poem. But very definitely not one to be taught to schoolkids.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Alen Ginsberg is also a founding member of NAMBLA (the pro-pedophhilia asssociation) and admittedly like to pick up underage boys, drug them and sodomize them.

I say "admittedly" because there are at least a dozen places where he talks/writes openly about it. I don't have the time to look them all up, but there's this:

Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays 1952-1995, Perennial, New York, 2001),p. 168: "Prepubescent boys and girls don't have to be protected from big hairy you and me, they'll get used to our lovemaking in 2 days provided the controlling adults will stop making those hysterical NOISES that make everything sexy sound like rape."

He's never been prosecuted because he's a Creative Genius don'cha know. Creative Geniuses are allowed to do whatever they want.