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Blowing incessantly, desiccating the town and the vineyards, pausing only to howl at a higher pitch, is a "furious monotonous purposeless wind"-hence the book's title. It is the breath of a malevolent universe and carries the inevitability of human defeat...
...much stronger tendency towards humor in his writing than did Mr. Ginsberg. The latter, to the considerable surprise of most of the audience, which had come in search of a sideshow, was an unexpectedly "serious" poet, especially in the long prose poem, Kaddish, and in the well-known Howl with which he ended his reading...
Alan Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky will read "Howl and Other Poetry" at 8 p.m. tonight in New Lecture Hall. The program will be sponsored by the Harvard Poetry Forum and the Law School Forum...
Last week the two styles bumped head on. The result was a howl about sportsmanship-and the prospect of some changes in European hockey. In Prague for the world amateur championship, Canada's Belleville (Ont.) MacFarlands played so rough that they drew boos, as they had through much of a month-long pre-tournament tour. The MacFarlands needed police protection in Stockholm. In Finland they were pelted with snowballs, accused of being a "hooligan gang." In West Germany, Hamburg's Bild-Zeitung cried that the MacFarlands played "like a bunch of hoodlums . . . ramming down everything that came...
Genius is not normal, and it stands exposed to every wind that blows. On some winds Orozco scattered seeds of hate; on others he scattered seeds of love and hope. But even as the winds howl, it is clear that they swirl about an artist who was mountainous...