with the absolute heart of the poem of life butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years. What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies!

Howl, Parts I & II - I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked

The most important and controversial poem of Ginsberg’s career as well as the entire Beat movement. From his 1956 collection of the same title. with the absolute heart of the poem …

"Howl", also known as "Howl for Carl Solomon", is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1954–1955 and published in his 1956 collection, Howl and Other Poems. The poem is dedicated to Carl Solomon. Ginsberg began work on "Howl" in 1954.

Howl (excerpt), by Allen Ginsberg For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,

Ideally each line of Howl is a single breath unit. Though in this recording it’s not pro- nounced so, I was exhausted at climax of 3-hour Chicago reading with Corso and Orlovsky. My breath is long—that’s the Measure, one physical and mental inspiration of thought contained in …

2019年6月20日 · Howl : original draft facsimile, transcript and variant versions, fully annotated by author, with contemporaneous correspondence, account of first public reading, legal skirmishes, precursor texts and bibliography by Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997

2024年6月19日 · “Howl” by Allen Ginsberg, a seminal work of American poetry, first appeared in 1956 as part of his collection “Howl and Other Poems.” This poem serves as visceral representation of the Beat Generation, a countercultural movement that emerged in the 1950s.

‘Howl’ by Allen Ginsberg (Bio | Poems) is an indictment of modern society and celebrates anyone who lives outside its standards. The poem explores the poet’s “mad” friends in the first section. He describes their drug use, sexual habits, and how they sought meaning in their everyday lives.

For / Carl Solomon / I / I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by / madness, starving hysterical naked, / dragging themselves …