Irwin Allen Ginsberg ( \ / ˈɡɪnzbərɡ \ / ; June 3 , 1926 - April 5 , 1997 ) was an American poet and one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the counterculture that soon would follow .
Irwin Allen Ginsberg ( June 3 , 1926 - April 5 , 1997 ) was an American poet and author , who was part of the Beat Generation movement of poets in the 1950s .