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55 years after the fact, culture still cries out for Ginsberg’s HOWL

“When he first read this poem, it was a cultural intervention, and it continues,” says poet Anne Waldman, a friend and collaborator of Ginsberg’s. “It’s a time bomb, and it’s a time piece.”

Ginsberg had a complicated relationship with his own creation.

“I don’t read it often because it’s too much of a bravura piece, and I don’t want to get hung up on it,” he said when he and Waldman were onstage together in the mid-1970s at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, the writing program they co-founded at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo.

“On the other hand,” Ginsberg continued, “I also want to present my best.”

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