Louis Ginsberg was an American poet and father of poet Allen Ginsberg.
11 Facts About Louis Ginsberg
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Louis Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey, on October 1,1895, to Pincus Ginsberg and Rebecca Schectman Ginsberg.
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Louis Ginsberg's siblings included Abraham, Rose, Clara, and Hannah.
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Louis Ginsberg retired from Central High School in 1961, although he began to teach grammar and composition at the Paterson, New Jersey, extension of Rutgers University until 1976.
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Louis Ginsberg's illness was the focal point for Allen's poem "Kaddish", in which he wrote: "and Louis needing a poor divorce, he wants to get married soon".
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Louis Ginsberg married Edith Cohen in 1950 with whom he spent the rest of his life.
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Louis Ginsberg died on July 6,1976, and his son Allen, who learned to rhyme from his father, wrote the rhyming poem, Father Death Blues for him on July 8,1976, over Lake Michigan.
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Portraits of the Louis Ginsberg family were taken by photographer Richard Avedon and exhibited at the Gagosian Gallery and the Israel Museum.
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Louis Ginsberg' poems appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, Munsey's Magazine, The Forum, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Masses, the New York Evening Post, Argosy, the Newark Evening News and other periodicals, as well as in Modern American Poetry: A Critical Anthology, Third Revised Edition and Modern British Poetry, both edited by Louis Ginsberg Untermeyer.
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Louis Ginsberg subsidized the publishing of The Everlasting Minute in 1937.
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Louis Ginsberg published puns in the Newark Star Ledger under the heading "Keep an O'Pun Mind".