I am Prince Mishkin

Mark Ford

  • ‘Howl’: Original Draft Facsimile by Allen Ginsberg, edited by Barry Miles
    Viking, 194 pp, £16.95, February 1987, ISBN 0 670 81599 3
  • White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985 by Allen Ginsberg
    Viking, 89 pp, £10.95, February 1987, ISBN 0 670 81599 3

It’s over thirty years since the angry drumbeat of Howl first assembled the dissatisfied tribes of an expanding American subculture, and gave them a name and a voice. The first reading took place at the Six Gallery in San Francisco on 7 October 1955. Michael McClure who also read that night along with Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen and Philip Lamantia, describes the poem’s impact in Scratching the Beat Surface (1982):

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