Allen Ginsberg was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as a winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1926, and died in New York City in 1997.
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William Burroughs closed his classic novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called ‘Yage', a drug that could be ‘the final fix'. In The Yage Letters, a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel, he jour... SEE MORE