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...article on Allen Ginsberg's appearance at Columbia University described the reading of Howl as a hoot [Dec. 7]. I'm sure that Ginsberg and many other people realize that excesses took place in the late '60s and find some humor in them. But Reporter Henry apparently views this humor with a disparaging slant that induces readers to avoid the valid social questions arising from those turbulent times. These issues are what Howl is all about...
Night, the hour of poets, on a windy street in the part of New York City where academe meets Harlem. Outside a nondescript building, a man calls to an acquaintance. The second replies, "Allen Ginsberg reading Howl? It's tempting, but . . ." He walks...
...hour late, Poet Anne Waldman rises to introduce the aging enfant terrible, now 55. She arouses the crowd to nostalgia for dissent with the code language of the antiEstablishment. She describes Ginsberg as a product of "postwar materialist paranoid doldrums." She proclaims, to the audience's laughter, that Howl was "written while Allen was living on unemployment compensation...
...last Ginsberg is ready to stand and perform, as he has at coffeehouses and on campuses since the late 1950s. Howl begins with one of the bitterest and best-known lines in American poetry: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked...
...once again marching against war. On campuses there are teach-ins about the threat of nuclear holocaust. But this night, at this Columbia campus, sartorially and spiritually the most volatile and un-Ivy of the Ivy League, Allen Ginsberg is chatting, singing, wearing a necktie and making his howl a thigh-slapping hoot. His last words are prophetic, but not in the stirring way of the years gone by. He plays a worn squeeze-box and sings: "Meditate on emptiness, 'cause that's where you're going...