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Wild at heart / Vivian Gornick

Human seraphim: "howl," sex, and holiness / Mark Doty

"Howl" and hail / Amiri Baraka

"A lost battalion of platonic conversationalists": "Howl" and the language of modernism / Marjorie Perloff

A witness / Bob Rosenthal

"Howl" in Transylvania / Andrei Codrescu

Talking Howl 1: Jack Kerouac, Louis Ginsberg, William Carlos Williams, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, M.L. Rosenthal, John Hollander, Judge Clayton Horn

On the granite steps of the madhouse with Shaven heads / Rick Moody

Not the, not now / Sven Birkerts

Repeating Allen / Eileen Myles

Wopbopgooglemop: "Howl" and its influences / Gordon Ball

My "Howl" / Billy Collins

The poet as Jew: "Howl" revisited / Alicia Ostriker

A thirteen-year-old cadet / Kurt Brown

"Howl" and me / Phillip Lopate

Talking Howl 2: James Dickey, Kenneth Rexroth, Kenneth Patchen, Donald Justice, Richard Eberhart, Anais Nin, Reed Whittemore, Czeslaw Milosz

I've lived with and enjoyed "Howl" / Allen Ginsberg

The best mind / Jane Kramer

Welcoming "Howl" into the canon / David Gates

Writing through Howl / John Cage

Radical eyes: political poetics and "Howl" / Eliot Katz

The best bones for soup have meat on them / Marge Piercy

Talking Howl 3: Paul Zweig, Lewis Hyde, Bob Dylan, Michael McCure, Vaclav Havel, Cynthia Ozick, Denise Levertov, Andy Clausen, Antler, Ann Charters, Stanley Kunitz

The ballot of eternity / Luc Sante

Holy the fifth international / Robert Polito

"Howl" in and out of prison / Carol Muske-Dukes

A cross in the void / Frank Bidart

No picnic / Robert Pinsky

Premises of consciousness / Anne Waldman.

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