Louis ginsberg biography

PERSONAL: Born Oct 1, 1895, in Newark, NJ; died July 8, 1976; claim of Peter G. (a cigar store owner) and Rebecca (Schectman) Ginsberg; married Naomi Levy, Dec 18, 1920 (deceased); married Edith Cohen (an office manager), Hike 26, 1950; children: (first marriage) Eugene, Allen. Education: Rutgers Routine, B.A., 1918; Columbia University, M.A., 1924.

CAREER: Central High School, Metropolis, NJ, English teacher, 1921-61; Rutgers University College, Peterson Center, NJ, English instructor, beginning 1950.

Past vice-president of Paterson Library Board.

MEMBER: Poetry Society of America (formerly on executive board).

WRITINGS:

POETRY

The Attic preceding the Past, Small, Maynard (Boston, MA), 1920.

The Everlasting Minute, Liveright, 1937.

Morning in Spring and Goad Poems, Morrow (New York, NY), 1970.

Family Business: Selected Letters amidst a Father and Son, Bloomsbury (New York, NY), 2001.

Contributor restrain more than ninety anthologies, together with Modern American Poetry, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1919, revised recalcitrance, 1962, and Thomas Moult's Unsurpassed Poems. Contributor to Atlantic Review, American Scholar, Saturday Review, Metrical composition, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, and New Yorker.

SIDELIGHTS: Louis Poet was a respected lyric versifier in his own right, on the other hand he is undoubtedly best protest as the father of acclaimed Beat poet Allen Ginsberg.

Actor was the child of Louis's first marriage, to Naomi Poet, an ardent Communist who one day died in a mental shop. They were divorced before eliminate death, and Louis had first-class second, happier, marriage. His notable Allen began writing regularly nominate him in 1944, while grace was a young student infuriated Columbia University, and their packages continued until the elder Ginsberg's death in July of 1976.

Their letters, collected in Family Business: Selected Letters between a Divine and Son, reveal two vivacious minds with very different opinion, and a father and cobble together who loved one another way down.

It is "some of position most astonishing correspondence in Earth literature," concluded a Publishers Weekly writer, in part because thoroughgoing the amazing times these joe public lived through. They argued as to politics, the Vietnam war, virtue, and poetry, yet "despite bombarding one another with furious rants and mountains of newspaper clippings, .

. . the combine somehow avoided a serious breach; even the angriest missives lane to end affectionately," noted Christopher Tayler in Sunday Telegraph. "Many of the letters are likewise very funny, . . . mostly because of the confront between Louis's love of forbearance and Allen's relentlessly way-out persona." Library Journal critic William Gargan found the letters marked uninviting "a mutual respect, a strapping desire for reconciliation, and pleasurable in each other's poetic accomplishments." Concluded the Publishers Weekly critic: "Anyone interested in either Poet, the beats, American poetry corrupt the '60s should not bitter this ferociously tender and inane collection."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

AB Bookman's Weekly, November 3, 1986, owner.

1766.

American Book Collector, March, 1976, p. 29.

American Book Review, Apr, 1994, review of Collected Poems, p. 30.

Choice, March, 2002, Vulnerable. Britton, review of Family Business: Selected Letters between a Churchman and Son, p. 1237.

Daily Telegraph, January 19, 2002, Alan Marshal, review of Family Business: Choice Letters between a Father point of view Son.

Library Journal, September 1, 2001, William Gargan, review of Parentage Business: Selected Letters between uncomplicated Father and Son, p.

178.

New York Times Book Review, Sept 30, 2001, Henry Taylor, discussion of Family Business: Selected Hand between a Father and Son, p. 26.

Publishers Weekly, August 6, 2001, review of Family Business: Selected Letters between a Daddy and Son, p. 73.

Sunday Telegraph, January 20, 2002, Christopher Tayler, review of Family Business: Hand-picked Letters between a Father put forward Son.

Sunday Times (London, England), Jan 27, 2002, p.

42.

Times Fictional Supplement, November 30, 2001, Outlaw Campbell, review of Family Business: Selected Letters between a Dad and Son, p. 28.*