Howl, and Other Poems (Paperback)

from latefordinner

An American love poem, prayer and lament, as powerfull now as when it was written. Our children are still sacrificed to Moloch. The machinery of night is still in place digital, darker and more dangerous. Neil Cassidy's ghost walks along counting the railroad ties in eternity, followed by Allen c...

from regularguy5mb

I want to read this aloud, shout it from the rooftops; just as it should be. Ginsberg lays out a world in which nothing is alright, everything is falling apart, and we really haven't gotten much better since then. Howl is one of those works that is polarizing, you either love it or hate it. If yo...

from guhlitz

I read this at a Borders in Mission Valley circa 2003 while drinking one of Border's fantastic lattes. I sat down in one of the cozy corners made available to the customers who choose to read a little before the purchase. Being that I was extremely familiar with Ginsberg at the time and heard muc...

from palaverofbirds

Dutifully constructed and perverse rants against society. Celebration of what was cult and strange in it's time. Wheels over introspective poets who compare a snowy winter's garden to the status of their soul - boring. The world needs more Ginsbergs.

from Evadare

To really, really, really get the impact of this, you need to find someone with a good voice and stage presence and mark off as much time as is necessary to perform it ALOUD. Poetry is actually the art form that straddles the line between literature and music, and no one embodied that fusion more...