27th December, 07

I listened to Ginsberg's howl and the discussion on 'howl' recoreded on the occasion of the 50th anniversary celebration of Ginsberg's poem howl on the New York radio pacifica. The poem is a epoch making impact on the history of American poetry. The poem had to undergo trial of censorship. There is something incredible humanitarian in the poem. There is nothing in the poem that corrupts youth's or children's mind. It won the court case. There is something old fashion in the poem: the old fashion about the values, write and wrong. Howl has the potential to instil values long lost Whitman value.

And I read Amiri Baraka's Somebody Blew Up America. These poets of Beats generation were so outspoken against all the wrongs and follies of politics and social system and tradition.