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Loading... Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)by Allen Ginsberg
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A truly beautiful piece of writing. I highly recommend you read it aloud to get the full impact. (  )ravenfire | Jan 28, 2009 |   This poem is a true classic. Its power lies not in its allusions, but in the raw power of its poetry. It is a work of language, a work of feeling, a work of sound, of music. Yes, as other reviewers have said, this is a work to read aloud. If you read this in a crowd, at least try to hear the words out loud in your head. If the poem leaves you mystified, you've failed to feel it. Certainly, a knowledge of the Beats and the US in the 1950s deepens appreciation. But it's not a work of the head. Allen Ginsberg - a crazed prophet of his time. As with all art, you don't need to agree with the artist to appreciate his creation. And for that extra frisson - do what I did, and buy it from City Lights in San Francisco. Iacobus | Jan 20, 2009 | 1  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 purely than the Beats, and 'Howl' is probably the single best enactment of this principle. As an aural experience, 'Howl' is one of the greatest musical pieces I've ever known. Reading it silently on the page is like skimming a musical score without hearing it played. (  )Evadare | Nov 30, 2008 | 1 Sacred. (  )tgoodson | Aug 10, 2008 | I thought it was cool and edgy when I was younger, but it doesn't do much for me anymore. I still like "Supermarket in California." And "Howl" is a great title. (  )seanj | Jul 8, 2008 | 0.073 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0872860175, Paperback)The epigraph for Howl is from Walt Whitman: "Unscrew the locks from the doors!/Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" Announcing his intentions with this ringing motto, Allen Ginsberg published a volume of poetry which broke so many social taboos that copies were impounded as obscene, and the publisher, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, was arrested. The court case that followed found for Ginsberg and his publisher, and the publicity made both the poet and the book famous. Ginsberg went on from this beginning to become a cultural icon of sixties radicalism. This works seminal place in the culture is indicated in Czeslaw Milosz's poetic tribute to Ginsberg: "Your blasphemous howl still resounds in a neon desert where the human tribe wanders, sentenced to unreality".(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:24 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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