Howl and Other Poems

By: Allen Ginsberg

Narrated by: Allen Ginsberg

Including:

"Europe, Europe"

"America"

"Howl"

Footnote to "Howl"

"Strange New Cottage"

"In Back of the Real"

Transcription of organ music

"Sunflower Sutra"

"A Supermarket in California"

"Beat Poetry at Royal"

©2020 Allen Ginsberg (P)2020 Allen Ginsberg

Powerful

Prophetic for our modern time in the world. time for true transformation and true love.

Original blasts from the normalest of decades

Hearing the voice of Ginsberg both live and controlled opens repeated listening and gives light to the earths he shook in 1956. A treasure of American history lurching us
forward into the most turbulent of decades. Only drawback was lack of total alignment with the 1956 City Lights printing.

Sheer Brilliance

Allen Ginsberg is a national treasure. His passion will ignite your soul. His commentary on America is as relevant as ever, and his liberated speech will set your spirit free!

Poor Quality Audio

The audio recording is all over the place. I wish the audio quality was better.

Not to my taste

This was recommended to me by a friend and it clearly resonated with him, so I bought it as we have similar tastes. The poems are delivered by the original author and the recordings are clearly taken from his public appearances where he performed these pieces. The audio quality was just bad, nothing done to clean these up. I don't know if it would have been possible, some of the recordings are just so muddy and I didn't like the way in which the audience reactions sometimes drowned out the readings. All the poems had the feel of someone taking a stab at automatic writing, very free-associative, stream of consciousness stuff. They are at least cohesive in the sense that they swirl around a particular subject; war, tragedy, personal and pollical greed, injustice, and so on. But I didn't feel like he contributed much to these topics other than raw anger or disgust. The kind of emotions a teenager or one who has long been bitter and never healed from trauma might express. It just was not my thing. I appreciate it for what it was, but it had no use for me. I rarely watch the new or get involved in politics, because it's mostly noise to me that I can no longer afford to pay attention to for my own sanity. So I won't.