http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Sun, 4 Nov 2007 14:02:25 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/10/06/111547.php#comment-647827 Of course it's quite easy to find Ginsberg reading "Howl" on youtube. While there, the enthusiastic reader of poetry might find it interesting to taste other vigorous poems of the era by Kerouac, Corso, Kenneth Patchens "The Artists Duty". Maybe I've found the obscenity in "Howl": they "...who bared their brains to Heaven..." 647827@blogcritics.org Sun, 4 Nov 2007 14:02:25 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/10/06/111547.php#comment-647713 About Howl and wbai. WBAI is bankrupt. Dan Siegel of the Pacifica National Board is corrupt. He has been temporarily placed on the national board for one month to sabotage the elections and allow the WBAI and Justice and Unity corruption to continue. 647713@blogcritics.org Sat, 3 Nov 2007 21:44:10 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/10/06/111547.php#comment-639664 This is really good. Honestly, I'm happy someone wrote about Howl, because I've been trying to find out what the big deal was with this poem. Well written, too. jose 639664@blogcritics.org Tue, 9 Oct 2007 22:46:39 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/10/06/111547.php#comment-639565 for community radio? yeah, they should play it. and no, it's not direct sensorship, but self-sensorship, since there appear to be no actual rules about these things. 639565@blogcritics.org Tue, 9 Oct 2007 15:44:09 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/10/06/111547.php#comment-639560 It's an amazing poem, but it is appropriate for radio broadcast? Really? I get the symbolism of "Howl" being censored (although it's not actual censorship). But the poem isn't fit for all ages. 639560@blogcritics.org Tue, 9 Oct 2007 15:30:04 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/10/06/111547.php#comment-638982 great piece. it's really sad how the fcc has basically given free reign to do whatever they'd like. 638982@blogcritics.org Sat, 6 Oct 2007 23:18:16 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/10/06/111547.php#comment-638946 When fear of reprisal is the motivating factor to cower and do nothing,the resulting fate is well deserved. 638946@blogcritics.org Sat, 6 Oct 2007 19:54:16 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/10/06/111547.php#comment-638941 Great piece and worthy of note. I hadn't heard this news anywhere else. It's amazing that 50 years later this classic work can be censored. But when you think about it, passages of Shakespeare and the Bible have been excised in this nutty country too. 638941@blogcritics.org Sat, 6 Oct 2007 19:22:20 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/10/06/111547.php#comment-638920 My friends and I all read "Howl" in 1957 and knew immediately that it was about us and was a call to rebellion. So we did. Then the system seeks to drown everything under their bland blanket of manipulation. And mostly succeeds. But "Howl" comes to life again. One wonders what these 2007 people will do with it. 638920@blogcritics.org Sat, 6 Oct 2007 17:08:30 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/10/06/111547.php#comment-638853 Excellent opinion piece on such an excellent poem, a poem that still rings true today. I'll let some of my fellow poetry students know about this recent development with the FCC, not surprising though. 638853@blogcritics.org Sat, 6 Oct 2007 13:10:47 EDT