“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked….” So begins one of the most famous poems of the Beat literary movement: Allen Ginsberg’s epic, “Howl.” Written ...
It was the poem that defined a generation. "Howl," the defiantly gay manifesto that Allen Ginsberg read aloud for the first time at a Six Gallery public reading in San Francisco in 1955, railed ...
In 1956, it was OK for the best minds of Allen Ginsberg’s generation to be starving and hysterical, but naked? Perhaps not. As for what transpired between Ginsberg’s “angel-headed hipsters” and the ...
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