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Beatnik BooksBeat Thing.by David Meltzer American Scream: Alan Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation Jonah Raskin, ed review by Robert PavlikHowl is a yelp A cry an admonition An excoriation HowlHowlHowl It echoes down the decades Blows the dust from cobwebby memories Of button-down gray flannel conformist Cold War America Seeing through smudged black plastic eyeglasses A wine and weed fogged evening In a San Francisco gallery Where beats and squares and wannabes Dug what Alan and Gary and Michael and Lawrence Were saying and singing and shouting and Whispering City Lights risked legal opprobrium To publish the pocket paperback and Send it into literary orbit American Scream shouts deep background Cracks the spines of Ginsberg's journals Lets the ideas flow Creativity and ego and madness pulsing on the pages David Meltzer's Beat Thing is Beat prosody Rhythmic lyrical funny Beat Thing is the real thing History politics poetry From Cold War to Immoral War Meltzer melds and welds The years Calendars compressed What's changed Nothing's changed Read them and laugh weep sing shout Howl |
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