“Howl” is Beat poet Allen Ginsberg’s landmark poem first published in 1956. “Howl” is a fierce cry of lament for the decay of the American imagination. The poem encompasses many of the central values that would guide Ginsberg’s life and career, including his rejection of sexual repression and economic materialism, and an openness to multiculturalism and mysticism.

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