Essay Collection Honors 'Howl' Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews The Poem That Changed America: 'Howl' Fifty Years Later, a collection of essays by writers about their first encounters with the famous poem by Allen Ginsberg.

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Essay Collection Honors 'Howl'

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Essay Collection Honors 'Howl'

April 20, 200611:00 AM ET

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Maureen Corrigan

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Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews The Poem That Changed America: 'Howl' Fifty Years Later, a collection of essays by writers about their first encounters with the famous poem by Allen Ginsberg.

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