[New-Poetry] Howl u doin?

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_http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/04/30/the_legend_of_howl
/?page=full_ 
(http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/04/30/the_legend_of_howl/?page=full) 
By David Barber  |  April 30, 2006
 
POETRY MAKES NOTHING happen, Auden duly informs us, but when mythology  takes 
over, anything goes. Or so it would seem, to judge by a new collection of  
essays, ''The Poem That Changed America: 'Howl' Fifty Years Later" (FSG),  
commissioned by Beat hagiographer Jason Shinder to mark the golden anniversary  of 
Allen Ginsberg's epochal barbaric yawp.
 
Ever since ''Howl" first appeared in its instantly talismanic City Lights  
pocket edition in the fall of 1956, it's been hard to reckon where the poetry  
ends and the mythology begins.

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