| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxvi, 288 pages : illustrations, facsimile ; 22 cm + 1 CD (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Reflections from America's prominent writers on the seminal poem "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg, on the eve of its fiftieth anniversary. |
| Subject |
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997. Howl.
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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National characteristics, American, in literature. |
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Social change -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Social change. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Added Author |
Shinder, Jason, 1955-2008.
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| ISBN |
0374173443 paperback alkaline paper |
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0374173435 hardcover alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
9780374173432 |
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9780374173449 |
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