Howl - Allen Ginsberg - on-line

[Valkyrie]

http://www.tao.ca/thinking/texts/howl.html

[Michael De Panama]

Yeah. Allen Ginsberg is one of my favorite poets.

[abstractmentality]

i read about half of that poem to my english class and about 95% of them sat there, drifting off into space, with the entire thing going completely over their heads.

[vox]

I saw Ginsberg give a reading shortly before he died. It's my "brush with greatness." He signed two of my books and we chatted a little. Whatever his reputation as a poet will be in the future, he seemed like a genuinely nice man, which is worth more than poetry.

vox

[vox]

double post

(Edited by vox at 6:20 pm on July 12, 2002)

[andresG]

I love the poem America by Allen Ginsberg.

I think my favorite part is:
"My national resources consist of two joints of
marijuana millions of genitals and unpublishable
private literature that goes 1400 miles an hour
and twenty five-thousand mental institutions."

It makes me laugh every time I read it.

[Alejandro C]

Yeah i like 'america' the best from howl. it's a great poem for a lot of reasons but especially because of the rhythm. love it.

[prozak]

I thought Ginsberg's introduction to "Naked Lunch" was the best thing he ever did.

[anti machine]

ginsberg is amazing. "hadda be playin on a jukebox" is my fav