Mandy McCurdy EN 372 3 May 2001 Angelheaded Hipsters What living and buried speech is always vibrating here, what howls restrain’d by decorum… -Walt Whitman When Allen Ginsberg wrote his poem “Howl” in 1956 there were many reactions. To many it was shocking and profane, involving words and subjects that simply were not spoken about. To others it was a literary breakthrough of modern poetry full of vitality and desire. In a three-hour effort, Ginsberg had created a …showed first 75 words of 2154 total…

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