Though he never published a book during his life, Neal Cassady was one of the main inspirations for the Beat Generation. He's the basis of the Dean Moriarty character in Jack Kerouac's "On The Road," ...
There, he witnessed the start of a fabled literary bond between his fellow poets Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon, to whom Ginsberg dedicated his seminal poem “Howl,” first published in 1956.
Your browser does not support the audio element. Seamus and Mark step into the counterculture with two long poems, ‘Howl’ and ‘Kaddish’, by Allen Ginsberg, a ...
John Dilworth analyzes the inspiration and creative processes of his short werewolf comedy 'Howl If You Love Me.' ...