Introduction -- Early work -- Letters of introduction -- A letter to Marianne Moore / William Carlos Williams -- A letter to Allen Ginsberg / Marianne Moore -- A letter to Louis Ginsberg / Marianne Moore -- From the introduction to Empty Mirror / William Carlos Williams -- Going beyond Williams / Louis Simpson -- Howl in the 1950s -- West Coast rhythms / Richard Eberhart -- Review of Howl and Other Poems / John Hollander -- Poet of the new Violence / M.L. Rosenthal -- San Francisco letter / Kenneth Rexroth -- A howl of protest in San Francisco / Norman Podhoretz -- Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" / Michael Rumaker -- Remarks / (by various hands) -- Horn on Howl / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The disorganization man / Time magazine -- The other night at Columbia : a report form the Academy / Diana Trilling -- The other night in heaven / Robert Bly -- "It's a vast trap! / Allen Ginsberg -- Notes written on finally recording "Howl" / Allen Ginsberg -- To Allen Ginsberg [poem] / Louis Ginsberg.
Kaddish and other poems -- Exalted lament / Harvey Shapiro -- Ginsberg and the herd instinct / A. Alvarez -- The Pentecostal poems of Kaddish / Paul Carroll -- The poet as radar system / Robert Anton Wilson -- Remarks / reviews of "Kaddish" -- Allen Ginsberg : the Jew as an American poet / Allen Grossman -- The refusal to repress / M.L. Rosenthal -- Souls in sympathy with one another / Louis Simpson -- The long foreground -- A Blake experience / Allen Ginsberg -- The poetics of vision / Paul Portugés -- Allen Ginsberg's Paul Cézanne and the pater omnipotens aeterna deus / Paul Portugés -- Kit Smart's Howl / Bruce Hunsberger -- The legacy of surrealism / John Tytell.
The 1960s : black magic & magic speech -- Selected reviews -- Ginsberg's new poems / A.R. Ammons -- A passion in search of two boards / James Scully -- Fblup! / Alan Brownjohn -- Review of Ankor Wat / David Lehman -- A music of angels / Paul Zweig -- From "Howl" to OM / Reed Whittemore -- Review of The Fall of America / Helen Vendler -- Allen Ginsberg : a prophet on the electric networks / Charley Shively -- The sum of '48 / John Seelye -- Documents & reflections -- Moloch's poet / Fred Moramarco -- In the beginning, Leary turned on Ginsberg / Timothy Leary -- Ginsberg's Czech expulsion / E. Klingenberg -- "In our files" / Federal Bureau of Narcotics -- Three documents from Allen Ginsberg's FBI file / Federal Bureau of Investigation -- A letter to Richard Helms, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency -- Metapolitics / Floyce Alexander -- Politics and freedom : refractions of Blake / James A.W. Heffernan -- Anarchic power / Eric Mottram -- The image of the beast / Czeslaw Milosz.
Ellipsis : the ideograms of Ginsberg / Laszlo Géfin -- Public events, private musings / Charles Molesworth -- "I lift my voice aloud" / Paul Carroll -- Men, poetry, and the military : a memoir / Shepherd Bliss -- Sit and follow the breath : recent work -- Remark / Allen Ginsberg -- From an interview / Allen Ginsberg -- Chants, oracles, body-rhythms / Hayden Carruth -- Beyond self-absorption / Richard Elman -- expense of spirit" / Selden Rodman -- The survival of Allen Ginsberg / Mark Shechner -- Intimations of mortality / Paul Berman -- 25 rainbows on my windowsill / Charley Shively -- Untitled review of Plutonian Ode / Paul Berman.
Thinking back -- In New York : Howl becomes a hoot / William A. Henry III -- How I hear "Howl" / George Bowering -- Mad song : Allen Ginsberg's San Francisco poems / Warren Tallman -- "Howl" : a reading / Gregory Stephenson -- The whole man in / Geoffrey Thurley -- The origins of "Howl" and "Kaddish" / James Breslin -- Confronting the horrific / Ekbert Faas -- Remarks from a "Symposium on the writer's situation" / George Dennison -- Bibliography.
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