Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of his finest work published in Penguin Modern Classics, including Howl, whose vindication at an ...

As suggested by its title, Allen Ginsberg's game-changing poem Howl is essentially performative — and so is Howl, the Sundance-opening quasibiographical movie by Oscar-winning documentarians Rob ...

Wild at heart / Vivian Gornick -- Human seraphim: "howl," sex, and holiness / Mark Doty -- "Howl" and hail / Amiri Baraka -- "A lost battalion of platonic conversationalists": "Howl" and the language ...

Allen Ginsberg’s epic mid-1950s beat poem, a 'howl" of pain, frustration and explicit gay sexual longing, is regarded as one of the key moments in the birth of the post-WWII counter-culture. Today, it ...

Allen Ginsberg first read his poem Howl, at an art gallery in San Francisco in October 1955. It marked a turning point in American literature and is credited with starting the "Beat Generation" of ...