![]() ![]() ![]() The 39-year-old Pacifica network chose not to broadcast the reading because it was reluctant to run the risk of Federal action. ![]() Ginsberg called ''Why He Can't Broadcast 'Howl.' '' Earlier Complaint a Factor Instead, WBAI and about 60 other stations carrying the series will broadcast an interview with Mr. The poem is scheduled to be broadcast by several radio stations tonight or Thursday as part of a weeklong series about censorship called ''Open Ears/Open Minds.'' The five stations of the Pacifica Radio Network, however, including WBAI in New York, will not broadcast the reading because of recent rulings by the Federal Communications Commission concerning indecent language. Ginsberg's 1956 poem once more has become a subject of controversy. Successive waves of ever more iconoclastic and outrageous literature, drama and other artworks have made ''Howl'' seem tepid by comparison. Ginsberg and attempts to keep the book out of libraries and bookstores. It also challenged literary sensibilities with a barrage of obscenities that led to widespread attacks on Mr. ![]() Thirty-two years ago, Allen Ginsberg sent shock waves through the seemingly placid cultural landscape of mid-1950's America with a poem that proclaimed ''the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.''īut this anthem of the Beat generation, ''Howl,'' was more than just a bitter indictment of a psychically starved culture. ![]()
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