Reads HOWL and Other Poems

by Allen Ginsberg

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Recorded at a reading in Chicago, this live document features the poet delivering his seminal Beat manifesto right as it became a center of national obscenity trials. Ginsberg's rhythmic, liturgical delivery captures the raw, anti-authoritarian spirit of the era, establishing 'Howl' as a foundational text for both the 1960s counterculture and modern spoken-word performance.

Genres

  • Beat Poetry

Tracklist

  1. A Supermarket In California
  2. Transcription Of Organ Music
  3. America
  4. In Back Of The Real
  5. Strange Cottage In Berkeley
  6. Europe, Europe
  7. Kaddish
  8. Howl
  9. The Sunflower Sutra
  10. Footnote To Howl