id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5044 Howl - Wikipedia .html text/html 7550 756 74 In the Paul Blackburn Tape Archive at the University of California, San Diego, Ginsberg can be heard reading early drafts of his poem to his fellow writing associates. Thus the final collection contained several other poems written at that time; with these poems, Ginsberg continued the experimentation with long lines and a fixed base he'd discovered with the composition of "Howl" and these poems have likewise become some of Ginsberg's most famous: "America", "Sunflower Sutra", "A Supermarket in California", etc. Though "Howl" may seem formless, Ginsberg claimed it was written in a concept of measure adapted from Williams' idea of breath, the measure of lines in a poem being based on the breath in reading. "Allen Ginsberg: The Origins of Howl and Kaddish." Poetry Criticism. ^ a b Jonah Raskin, American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" and the Making of the Beat Generation American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" and the Making of the Beat Generation. American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" and the Making of the Beat Generation. Allen Ginsberg reads Howl. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5044.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5044.txt