Allen Ginsberg's Party Poem

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).