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From the Poem That Changed America: From The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later Author(s): Allen Ginsberg, Jason Shinder, Vivian Gornick, Mark Doty and Amiri Baraka Source: The American Poetry Review , MARCH/APRIL 2006, Vol. 35, No. 2 (MARCH/APRIL 2006), pp. 3-10 Published by: Old City Publishing, Inc. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.com/stable/20683131 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms Old City Publishing, Inc. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The American Poetry Review This content downloaded from 153.9.109.4 on Sun, 08 Nov 2020 21:31:08 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms The American Poetry Review and The Honickman Foundation are pleased to announce the winner of the 2006 APR/Honickman First Book Prize David Roderick for Blue Colonial Judge: Robert Pinsky The APR/Honickman First Book Prize is an award of $3,000 and publication of a volume of poetry. David Roderick's Blue Colonial, with an introduction by Robert Pinsky, will be published in the fall of 2006 with distribution by Copper Canyon Press through Consortium. This prize is made possible by a partnership between APR and The Honickman Foundation. From The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later Allen Ginsberg with commentary by Jason Shinder, Vivian Cornick, Mark Doty, Amiri Baraka, and others What living and buried speech is always vibrating here, the best qualities of human nature, and afterwards gays and lesbians, and other "outsiders," and still what howls restrained by decorum ... ?Walt Whitman offers the possibility of imperfect fulfillment in periodically silenced by the FCC and local public the search of friendship and love ("I am with you schools, the poem forces us to understand, as the FIFTY YEARS AGO, ClTY LIGHTS, A SMALL Carl Solomon."). The call of the poet ends with poet Paul Zweig wrote, that "nothing is safe from San Francisco paperback bookstore co-founded the declaration that in spite of (and because of) poetry." by the magazine publisher Rick Martin and what is lost everything is/must be holy. ("Holy the Indeed, the "howl" Ginsberg brought forth was the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, published Allen super-natural extra brilliant intelligent kindness unruly, powerful enough to upset traditions and Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems. With its trade of the soul!") values?and, further, incite action on its behalf. mark black and white cover, it was the fourth vol The poem, along with several other literary People changed their professions, moved, or cre ume in the City Lights "pocket poet's series." It achievements, including Diane di Prima's This ated alternative lifestyles as a direct impact of cost 75 cents. Kind of Bird Flies, Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Coney Is having read the poem. Perhaps like other major It's an anniversary worth noting: the book has land of the Mind, Jack Kerouac's On The Road, in visionary poems, "Howl" inspires its readers to sold more than i,000,000 copies, its signature spired the worldwide literary, cultural and politi raise the stakes in their work, and in their lives. poem has been translated into two dozen lan cal movement that became known as the Beat guages and is anthologized in high school and stan Generation. The form-breaking social and cultural As a young poet, I sent a handwritten note to dard anthologies worldwide as a literary classic. power of "Howl" amounted to more, however, than Allen Ginsberg asking if I could study with him Celebrated by many writers at the time of its a collective, thrilling scream. It changed (and con at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poet publication, including Jack Kerouac, Denise Lev tinues to change) the potential and vision of the ics at Naropa Institute, a Buddhist liberal arts col ertov, and William Carlos Williams (and dismissed lives and work of its readers, including those of lege he co-founded with the poet Anne Waldman. by many critics including Lionel Trilling and Mark our most distinguished artists and authors. On a postcard with a picture of himself and Van Doren), the poem gained national recognition Bob Dylan sitting cross-legged at the graveside of when it became the focus of proceedings brought Why is it that the poem continues to fascinate us? Jack Kerouac, Ginsberg quickly responded. "Come against it by the San Francisco Juvenile Depart In part, of course, there is the undeniable epic and when you can," he scribbled. There was something ment for obscenity in 1957. Although the presid legendary arc (chronicled and nurtured, in part, in him, always curious, interested, and generous ing Judge Horn dismissed the charges by quoting by Allen Ginsberg himself) in both the poem's that surfaced when he was in touch with another the motto, "evil to him who thinks evil," the trial history and in the Beat Generation it helped to human being. And a short time later, after looking was the beginning of one of the most public and foster. at my poems, he said, "Why not make some noise?" influential poetic journeys of any single poem. The Certainly, too, the poem demonstrated (in a seis "Howl" made some noise. How many poems stir trial, and the publicity it garnered, helped confirm mic way) that literary and social change could em such literary and social tumult? It helped shake up not only the poem's literary and social significance. anate from the shared spirit of a highly charged the order of things. Reading it today appeals to, and It also helped to root the poem's opening line (one language. Robust, rough, rude, and tender, with resuscitates, the young rebel in us. of the most famous lines of poetry in world liter provocatively rhythmic music, the poem's long ?Jason Shinder ature) in our collective consciousness: lined construct of visual imagery and repetitive altering phrases was born out of the various influ The following selections are reprintedfrom the recently I have seen the best minds of my generation ences of American jazz, blues and rock n' roll, for published, The Poem That Changed America: destroyed by madness, starving, naked, malism and free verse, French surrealism and Eng hysterical... "Howl" Fifty Years Later, edited by Jason Shinder, lish romanticism, and Judaism and Buddhism, to and published by Farrar, Straus ei Giroux. 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