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[first lines] Allen Ginsberg:
"Howl" for Carl Salomon. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night... [continues reading but unheard, credits roll]
"Howl" for Carl Salomon. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night... [continues reading but unheard, credits roll]
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Holy the groaning saxophone
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Holy the bop apocalypse
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Holy the jazzbands marijuana hipsters
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peace and junk and drums
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Holy time in eternity
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Movie Summary
As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.
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Allen Ginsberg