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Fred W. McDarrah's collection of his photographs and prose pieces by various authors, Keronac & Friends: A Beat Generation Album, offers us a far more penetrating look into the 1950s Beat movement than the usual dose of Kerouac's On the Road of Ginsberg's "Howl" can afford...
This intense focus on defense, to the near exclusion of the other items in the budget, is somewhat astonishing. Reagan called his nonmilitary cutbacks "the most exhaustive effort ever made to rein in Government's chronic overspending," and in any other year they would have raised a quadraphonic howl of protest. The President proposes to freeze spending on a number of programs, prominently including pensions for retired civilian and military employees (other than those on Social Security) and Medicare/Medicaid reimbursements to doctors and hospitals. Nearly a score of other programs would be "reformed"--that is, cut deeply. Among them: farm...
...grants to cities and counties. The fact that nearly all of these slashes have been well publicized in advance does not make them any less bold an attempt to carry out Reagan's philosophical objective of reducing the role of the Federal Government in American life. In part, the howl probably has been delayed rather than suppressed. Democrats, cowed by Reagan's 49-state electoral sweep, are lying low, many in the hope that Reagan's budget will self-destruct in a quarrel over military spending. Their strategy for the moment is to let Dole and his Republican Senate colleagues...
...Williams helped my work in several ways. I used his idea that things are only symbols of themselves and his attention to precise details. I was also interested in the way Williams gave measurement and structure to the longline poem. This showed up in parts two and three of "Howl...
...every poet studies Kerouac's seminal book, Mexico City Blues. Kerouac's had completly free form and he listened to jazz artists like Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk and Miles Davis. The idea behind the jazz was spontaneous improvisation and long breath. That had an influence on the line in "Howl" and any other long-line poems I've done. Thelonius Monk's idea of thinking then silence, thinking then silence affected "Kaddish." It would go: clonk, clonk...clonkcklonkcklonk. The big silences in Monk's work are equivalent to the dashes that I use for short breath "thinks" inside the verse...