![]() ![]() ‘Howl’ is a poem which rewards reading and rereading. Breathless from following this helter-skelter poem, it’s hard enough to absorb the plethora of images Ginsburg presents. Howl appears as one long list, its repetition of ‘who’ and enjambment building a detailed picture of 1950s America, taunting the reader with page after page of prose-like poetry. Technically, ‘Howl’ is rich with free verse and prose poetry exploration, something I’ll be discussing in a subsequent ‘Behind the Poem’ blog post. There is an immediacy and frantic energy to ‘Howl’ which catapults the reader through this collection of poems. ‘I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, ![]() This was one of the first single-author collections of poetry that I purchased, and that fantastic opening line of Howl has stayed with me ever since: For February’s ‘Book of the Month’, I’ve chosen Allen Ginsburg’s ‘Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems’. ![]()
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