Word: howl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN ALLEN GINSBERG published "Howl" in 1956, the poem was dirty enough, and its author brash enough, to establish new standards of literary freedom...
...Growing old in my heaven," he writes in "Airplane Blues." He is clearly self-conscious in his poems, for he is both old enough and important enough to refer to himself several times. Increasingly, Ginsberg's poetry is rooted in his past, as he alludes to "Howl," "Aunt Rose," and several other early works...
More than 75 aficionados came to meet the poet, best known as the writer of "Howl" and as a representative of the beatnik generation of the 1950's, and to get signed copies of the book, said Coop book buyer George Stephens...
...earn his nickname "der Tolle" (the crazy man). George Grosz remembered him at a ball in Berlin, gnawing on the fresh and bloody bone of an ox. He sometimes hid among the waxworks of criminals in the chamber of horrors of the Berlin Panoptikum, and sprang out with a howl to frighten the visitors. These early "happenings" (artist as cannibal, artist as criminal) were subtexts to the main theme of artist as primitive, untrammeled by conventions of any kind. O.K.'s letters were full of nostalgia for the innocence and vitality he felt had been lost to Europe under...
...best when it's windy," agreed freshman Betsey Robinson, skipper in the "B" division. "I hope it will howl in the nationals," Fogg added...