Playboy Interview: Allen Ginsberg

April, 1969

Playboy Interview: Allen Ginsberga candid conversation with the hippie-guru poet laureate of the new left and the flower childrenIn a country that understands and extols those who dedicate themselves to the factual and pragmatic, Allen Ginsberg is an eccentric anomaly--and an amiable affront to nearly every "respectable" literary, intellectual, religious, political and moral convention. A poet, a mystic, a homosexual, a psychedelic proselyte, a revolutionary, a bearded prophet of doom...