"San Francisco was, in a way, a refuge for people from all over the country," says Jonah Raskin who authored a book about Howl called American Scream. Ginsberg, the son of a traditional poet and initially a student at Columbia University, found liberation from the East Coast establishment in the San Francisco of Ferlinghetti and the beat poets. Fifty years later, the poem stands as a watershed. (He was borrowing from what he remembered as Emerson's words to Walt Whitman upon receiving one of the first copies of Leaves of Grass.)įerlinghetti recognized that Ginsberg's work had the potential to reshape the dominant poetic tradition. "I greet you at the beginning of a great career," he wrote. When poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti heard Howl in 1955, he sent a telegram to Alan Ginsberg. Download MP3: Anne Waldman and Ginsberg reading, including Howl (1975) Size: 33MB.
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