앨런 긴즈버그

소개

앨런 긴즈버그(Allen Ginsberg, 1926년 6월 3일 ~ 1997년 4월 5일)는 미국의 시인이자 1950년대 비트 제너레이션의 지도적인 시인들 가운데 한 명이다. 그는 군국주의, 물질주의, 성적 억압에 반대하였다.

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions.