24.10.10

re-cover nr.109

Howl - Allen Ginsberg

This picture was taken in Montreal in 2009.
Allen Ginsberg was an American poet.Howl was first published in 1956.

The 2010 film Howl, explores the life and work of Allen Ginsberg, and the polemics surrounding the poem.


"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, (...)"