Campus Stories - Mattie Taormina

Among the items from the Allen Ginsberg Papers collection at Stanford are a pair of Ginsberg's shoes and a letter from Lawrence Ferlinghetti, co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Archivist Bill Morgan said Ginsberg saved the poorly made sneakers, which he bought in then-communist Czechoslovakia, because their shoddy appearance illustrated the harsh realities of communism.
Campus Stories

Through photos and memorabilia, Stanford’s Allen Ginsberg collection captures a generation

CORRIE GOLDMAN | July 25, 2013

Allen Ginsberg, the iconic figurehead of the Beat Generation, saved just about everything. Ginsberg’s vast array of memorabilia housed in the Stanford University Libraries’ Department of Special Collections proves that he was not just an observer of culture, but also a collector of culture. Bill Morgan, Ginsberg’s personal archivist, bibliographer and biographer, told a Stanford…

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