The poem that changed America "Howl" fifty years later
Reflections from America's prominent writers on the seminal poem "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg, on the eve of its fiftieth anniversary.
| Other Authors: | Shinder, Jason, 1955- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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 of modernism / Marjorie Perloff
- A witness / Bob Rosenthal
- "Howl" in Transylvania / Andrei Codrescu
- Talking Howl 1: Jack Kerouac, Louis Ginsberg, William Carlos Williams, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, M.L. Rosenthal, John Hollander, Judge Clayton Horn
- On the granite steps of the madhouse with Shaven heads / Rick Moody
- Not the, not now / Sven Birkerts
- Repeating Allen / Eileen Myles
- Wopbopgooglemop: "Howl" and its influences / Gordon Ball
- My "Howl" / Billy Collins
- The poet as Jew: "Howl" revisited / Alicia Ostriker
- A thirteen-year-old cadet / Kurt Brown
- "Howl" and me / Phillip Lopate
- Talking Howl 2: James Dickey, Kenneth Rexroth, Kenneth Patchen, Donald Justice, Richard Eberhart, Anais Nin, Reed Whittemore, Czeslaw Milosz
- I've lived with and enjoyed "Howl" / Allen Ginsberg
- The best mind / Jane Kramer
- Welcoming "Howl" into the canon / David Gates
- Writing through Howl / John Cage
- Radical eyes: political poetics and "Howl" / Eliot Katz
- The best bones for soup have meat on them / Marge Piercy
- Talking Howl 3: Paul Zweig, Lewis Hyde, Bob Dylan, Michael McCure, Vaclav Havel, Cynthia Ozick, Denise Levertov, Andy Clausen, Antler, Ann Charters, Stanley Kunitz
- The ballot of eternity / Luc Sante
- Holy the fifth international / Robert Polito
- "Howl" in and out of prison / Carol Muske-Dukes
- A cross in the void / Frank Bidart
- No picnic / Robert Pinsky
- Premises of consciousness / Anne Waldman.