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Carl Solomon (March 30, 1928 – February 26, 1993) was an American writer. One of his best-known pieces of writing is Report from the Asylum: Afterthoughts of a Shock Patient.
Aug 24, 1994 · Solomon, born on March 30, 1928 in the Bronx, is mainly famous for having inspired the poem “Howl”, rather than for any achievements of his own. He and Allen Ginsberg met in a waiting room at a psychiatric hospital where Ginsberg was visiting his mother. Solomon was a regular there.
Mar 30, 2021 · Carl Solomon, New York City, August 13, 1988 – photo Allen Ginsberg. Carl Solomon (1928-1993) would’ve turned 93 today, [96, 2024] the dedicatee of ‘Howl”, his name eternally linked (for good or ill, for good, surely) to that poem.
For Carl Solomon. 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, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
"Howl", also known as "Howl for Carl Solomon", is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1954–1955 and published in his 1956 collection Howl and Other Poems. The poem is dedicated to Carl Solomon. Ginsberg began work on "Howl" in 1954.
Jan 22, 2024 · A llen Ginsberg’s repetition is essential in creating consistency in his free verse “Howl.”. The Beat Generation writer met Carl Solomon during his time at Columbia Psychiatric Institute ...
Dedicated to Ginsberg's friend Carl Solomon, who had been confined to a psychiatric institution, the poem is a lament for "the best minds of [Ginsberg's] generation," whom it portrays as having been "destroyed by madness."
Mar 30, 2020 · Carl Solomon, Dadaist, iconoclast, famously dedicatee of “Howl”, had he lived, would have celebrated his 90th birthday today (who knows if he isn’t celebrating it, dutifully and ruefully, “in the afterworld”!
Dedicated to Carl Solomon, a man Ginsberg met when he was visiting his mother in a mental hospital, “Howl” famously begins, “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked . . .”
