Allen Ginsberg - Howl
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Artist: Allen GinsbergEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-03-25
Music Label: Fantasy
Soundtracks:
- Howl
- Footnote To Howl
- A Supermarket In California
- Transription Of Organ Music
- America
- In The Back Of The Real
- Strange New Cottage In Berkeley
- Europe! Europe!
- Kaddish (Part 1)
- The Sunflower Sutra
Music reviews of Howl
Music Review: Outcry!
Rating: 4 Stars
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As a teenager I wanted to run down the
middle of my hometown steet screaming and
throwing myself in the air, anything to break
up the dull drab everydayness of it, I don't
know if this is a common fantasy that teenagers
have?
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A friend of mine said that Shakespeare
is hard to read but easier to understand when
seen performed on stage. I've read Howl (or
got 2/3 of the way through it) a couple of times
without really understanding it or enjoying it.
I've heard it recited on stage a couple of times
by Jean & John Waggoner's City Lights Review,
and even saw/heard Allen Ginsberg himself
perform it at Cheltenham Literary Festival circa
about 1992. And while appreciating the passion
of these live readings and recognising a few
references: "Neal Cassady cocksman..." etc.
I didn't really get it. I knew that two very
intelligent friends of mine got a big buzz out
of it, so knew I must be missing something.
So when I got Allen Ginsberg 'Howl &
Other Poems' CD and seeing that Howl was
the first track on it, I put it on my player, lay
on the bed, closed my eyes, settled down and
listened. Through Allen's distinctive matter-
of-fact voice the poem unfolded, revealing
itself to me. It was the same story as Jack
Kerouac's On the Road (correct me if I'm
wrong) containing nearly all the same
characters and a few others, yet told in
impressionistic verse, instead of Jack's long
prose poem. A take on the same era/scene/
emotion but from a different angle.
It's the paean of the underdog, concentrate:
wonderful imagery. Let Allen lead you around the
scene and show you that time, incident by pictured
incident. As he reads it see it on the inside of your
eyelids. You're back there with him. He describes
Neal Cassady and his love-making escapades
perfectly, sums up the life events of many 1940's
beatniks to be repeated by the same crashes and
compromises of 1960's hippies. Lives and dreams
crushed by the materialistic grey morning
commonsense it's-always been-this-way boulder
of inevitability, learning ways to grease their bodies
so they slide around the boulder and feel less its weight.
If you've read On the Road three times and
would like to take the trip again in a different seat in
the car, try Allen's. Although is it my impression
that Allen's view while exhilarating is a lot bleaker
than Jacks?
Description of Howl
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.Has a more notorious, infamous, call to arms of a poem than "Howl" been published in the late 20th century? Scrawled in 1955 with such intimate, enthusiastic fervor by the young Ginsberg, "Howl" helped thrust into the public eye the Beats--a genuinely original, deep, and at times unintentionally campy group of writers. But "Howl" is Ginsberg's work, and while it pays homage to his close friends--like William S. Burroughs ("who retired to Mexico to cultivate a habit") and Jack Kerouac ("or Rocky Mount to tender Buddha")--it's no documentary of bohemian writerdom. Forget for a second that "Howl" is the famous poem it is--so frequently parodied, copied, and infamously litigated against--and just listen. This disc presents an intense, well-recorded reading from 1959 of this spiritual, touching work. The record also includes "Kaddish," "A Supermarket in California," and six other important works. --Mike McGonigal
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