Ginsberg began writing the poem in the Beat Hotel in Paris in December 1957 and completed in New York in 1959.

Among those interviewed were poet Allen Ginsberg and folk musician Dave Van Ronk, both of whom died before the film was ever completed.

Among those interviewed were poet Allen Ginsberg and folk musician Dave Van Ronk, both of whom died before the film was completed.

" After beginning to read Part II, Ginsberg said to the audience, " I don't really feel like reading anymore.

Called by Ginsberg " a lament for the Lamb in America with instances of remarkable lamb-like youths ", Part I is perhaps the best known, and communicates scenes, characters, and situations drawn from Ginsberg's personal experience as well as from the community of poets, artists, political radicals, jazz musicians, drug addicts, and psychiatric patients whom he encountered in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Ginsberg says that Part II, in relation to Part I, " names the monster of mental consciousness that preys on the Lamb.

Ginsberg was inspired to write Part II during a period of peyote-induced visionary consciousness in which he saw a hotel façade as a monstrous and horrible visage which he identified with that of Moloch, the Biblical idol in Leviticus to whom the Canaanites sacrificed children.

Ginsberg intends that the characters he portrays in Part I be understood to have been sacrificed to this idol.

Moloch is also the name of an industrial, demonic figure in Fritz Lang's Metropolis, a film that Ginsberg credits with influencing " Howl, Part II " in his annotations for the poem ( see especially Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions ).

Ginsberg says of Part II, " Here the long line is used as a stanza form broken into exclamatory units punctuated by a base repetition, Moloch.

Part III, in relation to Parts I, II, and IV is " a litany of affirmation of the Lamb in its glory ," according to Ginsberg.

Of the structure, Ginsberg says Part III is, " pyramidal, with a graduated longer response to the fixed base.

* Ginsberg, H. L., " Two Religious Borrowings in Ugaritic Literature, II: The Egyptian God Ptaḥ in Ugaritic Mythology ," Orientalia, 9 ( 1940 ), 39-44.

The Village ( and surrounding New York City ) would later play central roles in the writings of, among others, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Marianne Moore, Maya Angelou, Rod McKuen, and Dylan Thomas, who collapsed at the Chelsea Hotel and died at St. Vincents Hospital at 170 West 12th Street, in the Village after drinking at the White Horse Tavern on November 5, 1953.

Ginsberg and Snyder, after hitch-hiking from San Francisco, read from their poems in the Anna Mann dormitory at Reed College, Snyder's alma mater.

Carolyn originally dated Jack Kerouac and would leave the Beat group shortly after walking in on Neal, Allen Ginsberg and Neal's wife at the time, LuAnne, in bed together.

It is heavily inspired by Gnosticism which Ginsberg came to know after reading Hans Jonas's book on the subject.

In 1939 Walter Krivitsky, ( born Samuel Ginsberg in Galicia, now Poland ) a GRU officer, who had defected after the murder of Leon Trotsky by Soviet agents in Mexico City was interviewed by Dick White and Guy Liddell of MI5.

They named themselves the Magic Mushrooms after Allen Ginsberg suggested that name during an on-campus lecture in the fall of 1965.

Soon after the killing, Allen Ginsberg began a novel about the crime which he called The Bloodsong, but his English instructor at Columbia, seeking to preclude more negative publicity for Carr or the university, persuaded Ginsberg to abandon it.

He was formally recruited after he saved the team from Sharon Ginsberg, a dangerous mutant who blamed X-Statix for the amputation of her wings.

Soon after the convention, he stated that the changes would not contribute to a Romney victory in 2012 and were advanced by Romney lawyer Ben Ginsberg and " friends ".

According to the back cover of a 1990s edition of the book, Burroughs and Ginsberg began compiling the work in late 1953, not long after the original set of letters was written, but it was not published for nearly a decade.

A few examples include Bob Kaufman, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Ryder's family friends included her godfather, LSD guru Timothy Leary, as well as the Beat Movement poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and the science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick.

Later, in the 1950s, Patchen became a major influence on the younger Beat poets including Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

In response to Ginsberg's reading, McClure wrote: " Ginsberg read on to the end of the poem, which left us standing in wonder, or cheering and wondering, but knowing at the deepest level that a barrier had been broken, that a human voice and body had been hurled against the harsh wall of America ..." Soon afterwards, it was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who ran City Lights Bookstore and the City Lights Press.

James Franco stars as the young Allen Ginsberg and Andrew Rogers portrays Ferlinghetti.

Ferlinghetti had heard Ginsberg read Howl in 1955 at the Six Gallery ; the next day, he offered to publish it along with other shorter poems.

Poet Allen Ginsberg bought a farm there in the 1960s, and the town became a haven and destination point for many of the major personalities of the Beat scene: William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Herbert Huncke, Ray Bremser, Anne Waldman, Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Harry Smith, Mary Beach, Claude Pelieu and many others all spent time either living or visiting there.

His work, with its overt humour, poignant reflections on contemporary urban life, and interest in the mistakes of the imagination, reveals an affinity with Frank O ' Hara, John Ashbery and the New York School of the 1950s, as well as the Beat writers of the 1960s -- Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti most obviously.

He was a contemporary and friend of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, Leroi Jones ( now known as Amiri Baraka ), Gregory Corso, Diane Di Prima, Bob Kaufman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and others.

Robert Bly, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Kenneth Rexroth ( who led one of the first workshops ), Gary Snyder and others held poetry readings and workshops.

In the twentieth century United States, the bohemian impulse was famously seen in the 1940s hipsters, the 1950s Beat generation ( exemplified by writers such as William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti ), the much more widespread 1960s counterculture, and 1970s hippies.

Her archive of historical, literary, art, tape, and extensive correspondence materials ( including many prominent literary correspondents, such as: William S. Burroughs, Robert Creeley, Diane Di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, and Ken Kesey ) resides at the University of Michigan's Special Collections Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

In contrast, the Beat poets, who included such figures as Jack Kerouac ( 1922 – 1969 ), Allen Ginsberg ( 1926 – 1997 ), Gregory Corso ( 1930 – 2001 ), Joanne Kyger ( born 1934 ), Gary Snyder ( born 1930 ), Diane Di Prima ( born 1934 ), Amiri Baraka ( born 1934 ) and Lawrence Ferlinghetti ( born 1919 ), were distinctly raw. Reflecting, sometimes in an extreme form, the more open, relaxed and searching society of the 1950s and 1960s, the Beats pushed the boundaries of the American idiom in the direction of demotic speech perhaps further than any other group.

Some of the songwriters of the upcoming rock-music generation of the mid-1960s and later read and appreciated writers like Kerouac, Snyder, McClure, Ferlinghetti, and Ginsberg ( e. g., Bob Dylan, for one, has talked about this ).

The Oracle gave much space to writings by Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, and other Beat writers, along with emerging younger writers.

The first reading was by Bunting, and Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso all read there.

After graduating from South Brunswick High School in 1965, Fagen enrolled at Bard College to study English literature, having been inspired by Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

A charismatic but often difficult personality, Graham produced shows attracting elements of America's now legendary counterculture of the time such as Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Country Joe and The Fish, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, The Committee, The Fugs, Allen Ginsberg, and, a particular favorite of Graham's, The Grateful Dead.

It included contributions from ( or interviews with ) Thomas Merton, Allen Ginsberg, Kurt Vonnegut, Ken Kesey, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gabriel García Márquez, Susan Sontag, Eduardo Galeano, Peter Ustinov, Erica Jong, and John Lennon.

Helen Adam – John Ashbery – Paul Blackburn – Robin Blaser – Ebbe Borregaard – Bruce Boyd – Ray Bremser – Brother Antoninus – James Broughton – Paul Carroll – Gregory Corso – Robert Creeley – Edward Dorn – Kirby Doyle – Robert Duerden – Robert Duncan – Larry Eigner – Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Edward Field – Allen Ginsberg – Madeline Gleason – Barbara Guest – LeRoi Jones – Jack Kerouac – Kenneth Koch – Philip Lamantia – Denise Levertov – Ron Loewinsohn – Edward Marshall – Michael McClure – David Meltzer – Frank O ' Hara – Charles Olson – Joel Oppenheimer – Peter Orlovsky – Stuart Perkoff – James Schuyler – Gary Snyder – Gilbert Sorrentino – Jack Spicer – Lew Welch – Philip Whalen – John Wieners – Jonathan Williams

# Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg

His interest focused mainly on Russian and American literature, including Aksjonov, Bunin, Cvetajeva, Mandelstam, Pasternak, Babel, and Platonov ; and Allen Ginsberg, Graham Greene, Sylvia Plath, Ferlinghetti, Ezra Pound, and Gregory Corso.

Among its twenty-nine early notable supporters were William Appleman Williams, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, James Baldwin, Jean-Paul Sartre, Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, as well as Latin Americans Waldo Frank and Carleton Beals.

* Penguin Modern Poets 5-Corso / Ferlinghetti / Ginsberg