Lines Drawn in the Sand The Life and Writings of Allen Ginsberg

Summer 2004
Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibit Area, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Monday-Friday, 8-5, and Saturday, 9-1, except holidays

This exhibition is based on the remarkable Ginsberg collection acquired in 2002 from Bill Morgan of New York City, a longtime friend of the poet as well as his official bibliographer and archivist. The exhibition explores the life and writings of Allen Ginsberg, the noted American poet closely associated with the Beat literary movement of the 1950s and with many of the major countercultural initiatives of the following decades. The exhibit traces Ginsberg's life from an early apprenticeship in New York in the 1940s and early 1950s to his eruption onto the national literary scene with the publication of two major works of poetry, Howl (1956) and Kaddish (1961), and through the several decades of writing, speaking, travel, and political activism that followed.

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