"One of the key figures of the Beat movement of the 1950s, <strong>Allen Ginsberg</strong> (1926-97) wrote poems that celebrated nonconformity and his counterculture leanings. His best-known work was 1956's ""Howl,"" an epic poem that scandalized some readers and was banned for its depictions of homosexual sex. Its publisher was even jailed, although a judge later ruled the poem was not obscene."
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