Very Short Fact: On this day in 1926, American poet Allen Ginsberg (who Daniel Radcliffe portrayed in the film, Kill Your Darlings) was born. He would be one of the defining voices of America’s Beat Generation.

“More than any other Beat figure, Ginsberg understood that the unspeakable visions of the individual had become the unstoppable desires of a new, flamboyant generation, and he stood with it gladly, nonviolently but outspokenly protesting war, censorship, bias and prejudice of every kind, and the unearned privileges of the wealthy that sustain the exploitation of the poor.”

[ p. 103, The Beats: A Very Short Introduction by  David Sterritt]

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