Limerick Ode To Allen Ginsberg
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
Were Ginsberg alive, how downbeat
\nMight he be at our nation, replete
\nWith war, greed, repression,
\nConformist aggression!
\nWould he Howl at our abject defeat?<\/p>\n
“Beat” poet Allen Ginsberg<\/a> read his controversial poem Howl<\/a> for the first time on October 7, 1955<\/a> at Six Gallery, in San Francisco. It was the subject of an obscenity trial<\/a>, but was decreed to be of “redeeming social importance.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Limerick Ode To Allen Ginsberg By Madeleine Begun Kane Were Ginsberg alive, how downbeat Might he be at our nation, replete With war, greed, repression, Conformist aggression! Would he Howl at our abject defeat? “Beat” poet Allen Ginsberg read his controversial poem Howl for the first time on October 7, 1955 at Six Gallery, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,56,42,4209],"tags":[4329,1350,4331,4330,710,4332,4333,2094,4334,4335],"class_list":["post-28737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-celebrity-humor","category-limericks","category-odd-holdays","tag-allen-ginsberg","tag-authors-playwrights","tag-beat-generation","tag-beat-poetry","tag-celebrities","tag-howl","tag-obscenity-trial","tag-october-holidays","tag-san-francisco","tag-six-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28737"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28748,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28737\/revisions\/28748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}