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Beat poet Allen Ginsberg dies at 70 in New York after liver cancer
Allen Ginsberg, counterculture guru and Beat Generation icon, died at age 70 in his Lower East Side apartment after a liver cancer diagnosis and a stroke. Surrounded by eight close friends, he influenced generations from Dylan to Patti Smith with Howl and confessional verse, shaping American poetry and art for decades.
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