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A Supermarket in California
By Allen Ginsberg
Bio
He was born in Newark in 1926 and died in 1997.His early life was troubled because of his mother’s battle with mental illness and this informed his poems.He traveled extensively throughout the world and was expelled from many communist countries (most notably Cuba) for being subversive, these travels influenced his work.He won the National Book award for The Fall of America, and was awarded the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Cultu ...