Howl, and Other Poems | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 27 pages of analysis & critique of Howl, and Other Poems.

Howl, and Other Poems | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 27 pages of analysis & critique of Howl, and Other Poems.
This section contains 7,228 words
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Buy the Critical Essay by Alicia Ostriker

SOURCE: Ostriker, Alicia. “‘Howl’ Revisited: The Poet as Jew.” American Poetry Review 26, no. 4 (July-August 1997): 28-31.

In the following essay, Ostriker considers the influence of cultural and religious Judaism on Allen Ginsberg and his works.

I have reverenced Allen Ginsberg—man and poet—for three decades, and see no reason to stop now. The first time I met Allen I was amazed, as this essay suggests, by his voice: the power and sweetness and humor of it. His breath, I thought, was the breath of the spirit. The last time was the same, but more so. We were at the Dodge Poetry Festival in Waterloo, N.J., in the soft weather of early fall, 1996. At dinner I told him I had written an essay about him as a Jew, that he would probably disapprove of, and he shrugged this off and talked about his new apartment. He was looking...

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