It was the poem that defined a generation. "Howl," the defiantly gay manifesto that Allen Ginsberg read aloud for the first time at a Six Gallery public reading in San Francisco in 1955, railed ...
It’s interesting to see, two generations after Allen Ginsberg came on the scene with “Howl,” that his “party poem,” as we called it back then, is hailed as “original” by an academic writing yet ...