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"Howl", also known as "Howl for Carl Solomon", is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1954–1955 and published in his 1956 collection Howl and Other Poems. The poem is dedicated to Carl Solomon . Ginsberg began work on "Howl" in 1954.
Carl Solomon (March 30, 1928 – February 26, 1993) was an American writer. One of his best-known pieces of writing is Report from the Asylum: Afterthoughts of a Shock Patient . Biography
He begins the poem with "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness", which sets the stage for Ginsberg to describe Cassady and Solomon, immortalizing them into American literature. [62] This madness was the "angry fix" that society needed to function—madness was its disease. In the poem, Ginsberg focused on "Carl Solomon!
Howl and Other Poems, the collection of poetry containing "Howl" Wizard Howl, fictional character in the 1986 novel Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones; Music
The poem ends on a Whitman-esque note with a confession of his desire for people to "bow when they see" him and say he is "gifted with poetry" and has seen the creator. This may be seen as arrogance, but Ginsberg's arrogant statements can often be read as tongue-in-cheek (see for example "I am America" from "America" or the later poem "Ego ...
In “The Ballad of Sam Solomon,” Hughes documents how Overtown resident Samuel B. Solomon and his neighbors defied Miami’s Ku Klux Klan by voting in the city’s 1939 primary. The poem opens ...
Carl Solomon introduced the work of French author Antonin Artaud to Ginsberg, and the poetry of André Breton had direct influence on Ginsberg's poem Kaddish. [citation needed] Rexroth, Ferlinghetti, John Ashbery and Ron Padgett translated French poetry.
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