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* [[Creator Breakdown]]: Spent time in Bellueve Psychiatric Hospital as a young man for treatment for severe anxiety. This was where he met Carl Solomon, and got the inspiration for "Howl."
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crowning Poetry of Awesome]]: The opening lines of "Howl":
** ''I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
**** The entirety of that poem is one brilliant middle-finger salute to conventionality and glorification of all things transcendent, human, and capable of making life worth living in the face of insufferable chaos. "America" and "Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg" are other great ones.
*** "America, I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel."
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