I find it hard to explain why exactly, and I’m sure Swift would, too: Somehow, this one 27-year-old woman from Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, keeps finding herself at the center of our national conversations about race, gender, celebrity, victimhood, even the economics of the tech industry. One of them is a massive, multi-million-dollar enterprise filled with violence and betrayal, and the other airs on HBO. In this business, there are two subjects that will boost your page views like nothing else: Game of Thrones and Taylor Swift. No one described, or embodied, creative alienation in twentieth century America like Allen Ginsberg, and no lines scream that anger and that promise like Ginsberg's most famous poem, "Howl." Its haunting cadences are not easily forgotten by anyone with an ear for the cold war, conformist (but with exceptions) Fifties: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night. Nova Religio American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation. Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions University of California Press Reviews In American Scream, Jonah Raskin focuses on that single long outpouring, tracking its genesis, its unveiling at the famous Six Gallery poetry reading in San Francisco in 1955 (vividly described also in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums), its interconnection with Ginsberg's associates and the leading lights among the 1950s Beats (some of them, like Ginsberg's own family and the poet himself, pursued by that spectre of madness), the obscenity charges which only American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation
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