Some comments on Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" by Jascha Kessler Professor of English and Modern Literature, UCLA in the LA Times:
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When I prepared an anthology of American poets in 1959, I chose Ginsberg's "Kaddish," a long threnody for his mother, precisely because I thought of "Howl" as a poem that could be taken but once — and best recited at a coven of stoned adolescents (as the first recording reveals).
A PASSING MOMENT
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This is my rather loose translation of a hokku by Ōemaru, who lived into
the first five years of the 19th century. For a moment,Autumn seen on the
hillsAt ...
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