Gepubliceerd op: vrijdag 3 juni 2022

Fragments from Howl – Nathan D. Horowitz

 

 

who were burned alive in their innocent flannel suits on Madison Avenue amid blasts of leaden verse & the tanked-up clatter of the iron regiments of fashion

flannel suits
& the nitroglycerine shrieks of the fairies of advertising & the mustard gas of sinister intelligent editors,
sinister editors
 
or were run down by the drunken taxicabs of Absolute Reality
taxicabs

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

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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.