Gepubliceerd op: vrijdag 6 mei 2022

Fragments from Howl – Laura Ortiz

 

 

who howled on their knees in the subway and were dragged off the roof waving genitals and manuscripts

(extract from the poem ‘Howl‘ by Allen Ginsberg. Copyright © Allen Ginsberg, 1956, 1961, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited)

 

artwork by Laura Ortiz based on the selected fragment from Howl (click for enlargement)

artwork by Laura Ortiz
based on the selected fragment from Howl
(click for enlargement)

Over de auteur

Ginsberg Year

- In 2022, it's been 25 years since US poet Allen Ginsberg died. We ask artists from all over the world to pick a fragment from his best-known poem Howl and create an artwork based on that fragment. A lively and fluid evaluation of what this amazing poem means in our times & a tribute to one of the best minds of the generations before us.