Allen Ginsberg – Allen Ginsberg At Reed College: The First Recorded Reading Of Howl & Other Poems (LP)

Label: Omnivore Recordings – OVLP-412, Omnivore Recordings – 816651019595
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: Apr 2, 2021
Genre: Non-Music
Style: Poetry

 

"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. In the Paul Blackburn Tape Archive at the University of California, San Diego, Ginsberg can be heard reading early drafts of his poem to his fellow writing associates. "Howl" is considered to be one of the great works of American literature.[1][2] It came to be associated with the group of writers known as the Beat Generation.