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Londons Falling

Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)
02/11/10 12:58am
MSRP $7.95 $3.76 (53% off)


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Reviews from Amazon:

Allen Ginsberg Howl and other poems

Rating: 3/5
Comments:
For some reason I thought this was going to be a large collection of poems by Allen Ginsberg. I can say I've been a fan for quite sometime. This was not the case. In fact, This book only consists of 57 pages. Its a very small book so I don't care how famous Howl is or if it's being made into a movie with James Franco. This is not worth the purchase of 6 or more dollars.

Great book, great price

Rating: 5/5
Comments:
Can your household live without this book? Well, probably. But there's no reason it shouldn't.

The one gripe is the odd sizing of this book. C'mon, City Lights, what book is this supposed to sit on the shelf with?!

Ginsberg the 'greatest'?.. hmmm

Rating: 5/5
Comments:
Don't get me wrong. I attended 3 readings by Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky at Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusettes in the late 1970's and even recorded "Contest of the Bards" and handed him a copy of it at his request,... I 'absolutely' consider his oratory style of delivery and poetic verse and style amazing and brilliant and so very very entertaining and inspiring.. but the 'greatest' epic poem or poet of his century I just can't agree with. Gary Snyder made such an impact with introducing the marriage of Zen and the Orient into modern poetry style of his day (as Vincent vanGogh and Gauguin did in painting in the Expressionest era in painting/art), and Gary's poems of the passing of a day's events are so brilliant and open and revealing, and Jack Kerouac's style and impact, and Ferlinghetti's brilliance stemming from such a variety of different drugs... T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, Patty Smith, Bob Dylan, ... Marianne Moore,... grins... there are so many just 'great' poets from that and before and after generations in American history... one can really not call one the 'greatest' of any of their peers when there is such an overabundance of wealth to choose from and to have been entertained and inspired by. Howl is about the 'awakening' of american society, the public, the 'beginning' of awakening that could happen. But we actually have reverted, we actually believe that it was 'only' Russians or Chinese or Cubans or the Germans of WWII who were lied to or not told the truths by their governments whether led by Political Action Groups, Special Interest, drug companies, oil companies, insurance companies, etc. The rending of the veil of sleepiness of being 'content' socially is what Howl is all about, the 'rage' against that as we should be enraged against the last moment of breath to deaths' face as deat come to take us to the next realm. I don't know if anybody actually feels the rage of "Howl" within anymore, whether it was worth it after all, after all of the tea and ices... shrugs.