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Howl

Allen Ginsberg

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1956
Pages
Pages 15

A poet howls a lament for the best minds of his generation, destroyed by madness and the machinery of America, in long ecstatic lines built to be read aloud.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked
Howl, Allen Ginsberg

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