Howl at 50
Posted at 9:14am on Monday, October 10th, 2005Allen Ginsberg’s Howl was 50 on Friday… Lots of people write about it. For my part it was a combination of Howl and Richard Brautigan’s The Pill vs. The Springhill Mining Disaster that opened my eyes to poetry. I guess, like Catcher In The Rye, Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance or any of those other life changing books, if they catch you at the right time you’re caught. It was Howl for me.
You can now even hear Ginsberg read it. Amazing.