Howl and the Language of Modernism

“A Lost Batallion of Platonic Conversationalists”:

“Howl” and the Language of Modernism

published in Jason Shinder (ed.), The Poem that Changed America: ‘Howl’ Fifty Years Later (New York: Farrar Straus, 2006),  24-43.

In 1957, just a year after the publication of the City Lights edition of Howl, Louis Simpson wrote a poem called “To the Western World”:[…]