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Fred W. McDarrah (American, 1926 \u2013 2007)
Allen Ginsberg in Uncle Sam Hat [Ginsberg on Central Park Bandstand, 5th Avenue Peace Demonstration to Stop the War in Vietnam]<\/strong>, 1966
black and white photograph \u201cposter-card\u201d inscribed by Ginsberg on the verso.
Robert A. Wilson Collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the mid-1960s Allen Ginsberg was known for his long hair and beard. Connoting Biblical prophets, Eastern mystics, and his literary hero Walt Whitman, Ginsberg\u2019s beard was featured in a number of iconic images, perhaps most famously in Fred McDarrah\u2019s photograph of Ginsberg in an Uncle Sam hat, preparing to speak at an anti-war rally in New York in 1966. The image was the basis of a popular poster and a related large-format postcard (seen here). This copy, from the collection of Robert A. Wilson, is inscribed on the back by Ginsberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Long hair magazine<\/strong>, 1965
Lovebooks Ltd., London.
Cover drawing by Barry Miles<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Allen Ginsberg beard clipping<\/strong>, 1964
Robert A. Wilson Collection<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Allen Ginsberg (American, 1926 \u2013 1997)
Allen Ginsberg, four manuscript pages for Scrap Leaves<\/strong>
Robert A. Wilson Collection<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1968 Diane di Prima and Alan Marlowe\u2019s Poet\u2019s Press published a series of small limited-edition poetry booklets reproducing handwritten text by a number of authors, among them Michael McClure, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, and di Prima herself. University of Delaware Special Collections holds the original handwritten manuscripts for the volumes by Corso, McClure, and, shown here, Ginsberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Allen Ginsberg, poet (American, 1926 \u2013 1997)
Robert LaVigne, designer (American, 1928 \u2013 2014)
Kral Majales<\/strong>, 1965
limited edition lithograph on paper, Oyez Press, Berkeley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The title of this poem is Czech for \u201cKing of May,\u201d the honorary title bestowed on Allen Ginsberg by university students when he was staying in Prague in the spring of 1965. While the students were celebrating the Beat poet, the Communist Czech government was monitoring his activities. Upon discovering some political writings in his notebook, they forcibly expelled him from the country. He wrote this poem on the plane from Prague to London, where the next day he visited Bob Dylan and the Beatles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The overtly phallic design for this broadside by Robert LaVigne shows Ginsberg silhouetted naked (except for his sneakers), with the Tibetan prayer bells he frequently played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Allen Ginsberg, poet (American, 1926 \u2013 1997)
Wes Wilson, designer (American, b. 1937)
Who Be Kind To<\/strong>, 1967
color lithograph on paper
Limited edition, signed. Cranium Press, San Francisco<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Allen Ginsberg, poet (American, 1926 \u2013 1997)
Michael English, designer (British, 1941 \u2013 2009)
Message 2<\/strong>, 1968
offset lithograph on paper
Limited edition, Ad Infinitum Limited, London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poetry broadsides had traditionally been produced for literary enthusiasts by small poetry presses. Allen Ginsberg, however, collaborated with two of the major psychedelic poster artists of the counterculture to produce these vibrant publications. Wes Wilson in San Francisco and Michael English in London were two of the most prominent artists of the youth underground. Ginsberg would become, along with Bob Dylan, one of the most recognized voices, and faces, of the 1960s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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