I saw the best blogs of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical …
(Sing that title to whichever tune you’d like.)
Today, October 6, 2005, marks the 50th anniversary of the first reading of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, a poem important to American culture, so I have to post about it today. I first heard it at a summer camp for artists when I was in high school. I was surprised to hear words very similar to that of a song I like.
I didn’t realize the poem has such an intense history.
The New York Times still has their April 6, 1997 obituary available. It looks like someone posted Part I of the poem online for the class Writing the Drug Culture at the University of Virginia.
The link to the 50th anniversary site comes from the Librarians’ Index to the Internet New This Week.
(LII recently redid their site. There’s a different URL for New This Week now that has a number. I wonder if that means it’s a permanent URL for this issue of New This Week … One of my annoyances with the site is that I haven’t been able to point to New This Week for longer than a week because the content on the page changes.)
Addendum: The ResourceShelf tips their hats to LII.
