Research Guides: Howl: Books

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"Beat Movement" in Literary Movements for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literary Movements by Ira Mark Milne (ed.)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2009
In-depth historical background information on Magical Realism as well as modern critical interpretation of characteristic styles and themes.
"Howl" in Poetry for Students by Ira Mark Milne (ed.)
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2009
Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
American Scream by Jonah Raskin
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780520939349
Publication Date: 2004-04-07
Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This first full critical and historical study of Howl brilliantly elucidates the nexus of politics and literature in which it was written and gives striking new portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. Drawing from newly released psychiatric reports on Ginsberg, from interviews with his psychiatrist, Dr. Philip Hicks, and from the poet's journals, American Scream shows how Howl brought Ginsberg and the world out of the closet of a repressive society. It also gives the first full accounting of the literary figures--Eliot, Rimbaud, and Whitman--who influenced Howl, definitively placing it in the tradition of twentieth-century American poetry for the first time.
On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg by Lewis Hyde (Editor)
Call Number: PS3513 .I74 Z82 1984
ISBN: 0472063537
Publication Date: 1984-11-14
Essays and reviews that trace the changes in Ginsberg's career and in his poetry
Poem That Changed America by Jason Shinder (Editor)
Call Number: PS3513 .I74 H6356 2006 (Desoto and Lake Placid)
ISBN: 9780374173449
Publication Date: 2006-03-21
A tribute to Ginsberg's signature work, which stirred a generation of angel-headed hipsters to cultural rebellion. In 1956, City Lights, a small San Francisco bookstore, published Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems with its trademark black-and-white cover. The original edition cost seventy-five cents, but there was something priceless about its eponymous piece. Although it gave a voice to the new generation that came of age in the conservative years following World War II, the poem also conferred a strange, subversive power that continues to exert its influence to this day.

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