As suggested by its title, Allen Ginsberg's game-changing poem Howl is essentially performative — and so is Howl, the Sundance-opening quasibiographical movie by Oscar-winning documentarians Rob ...

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 ...

As suggested by its title, Allen Ginsberg’s game-changing poem “Howl” is essentially performative — and so is Howl, the Sundance-opening quasi-biographical movie by Oscar-winning documentarians Rob ...

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The annual New Year’s Eve soiree Howl takes its name from Allen Ginsberg’s history-making poem. And event organizer Jessie de la Cruz says that the poem, in which Ginsberg famously laments that ...

Poet Allen Ginsberg, a Beat Generation icon, championed authenticity and one of his quotes urges embracing one's true self, ...

Wild at heart / Vivian Gornick -- Human seraphim: "howl," sex, and holiness / Mark Doty -- "Howl" and hail / Amiri Baraka -- "A lost battalion of platonic conversationalists": "Howl" and the language ...

Even before I booked my plane ticket to San Francisco, Calif. (on a whim), I had wanted to go to City Lights Bookstore — the ...

Singer-songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull reported that "Allen Ginsberg tried teaching me how to give a blow job; he said it was like prayer." The incident took place between 1988-89 at the ...

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