Download or read book World Citizen: Allen Ginsberg as Traveller written by David S. Wills and published by Beatdom Books. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allen Ginsberg visited sixty-six countries during his lifetime. He travelled to see the world, but each time he went abroad, he came back changed. These changes built up his personality and poetic style, essentially creating the man the world came to know during the 1960s - the world's most famous living poet and all-round peace icon. Travel was not just a passion; it was essential to his development as a poet and activist. His most famous poems were products of travel and his core beliefs - from free love to world peace - were ones found while wandering through the wider world. In this book, David S. Wills tells the story of Allen Ginsberg's life through the prism of travel.