Within Howl, there is a damning of authority, yes, but it lies with a celebration of human life that would provide nutrients for the next generations.Ĭue Patti Smith, on whose work Ginsberg left an indelible mark. “Both movements rejected intellect for sensation, politics for art, and Ginsberg and Kerouac glorified a grassroots America that included supermarkets and cars as well as mountains and apple pie,” she wrote. Willis drew parallels between hippie culture – the bastard child of the Beat generation, born when the beats and the mid-60s San Francisco counterculture cross-fertilised – and folk culture. Ellen Willis, in her 1967 essay Before the Flood, wrote that Dylan’s A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, from his second album, owed much to Ginsberg’s “Biblical rhetoric and declamatory style” – but you could include much of his other work in the debt.
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