http://www.npr.org/2015/04/12/399159190/i-saw-the-all-stars-of-our-generation-honor-allen-ginsbergs-howl
Jonah Raskin, author of American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation, says the poem was about many things, including sex, drugs, youth, alienation, defiance and transcendence.
"People, even if they don't get the whole poem or even if they're a little confused at times, they get the rhythm, and they get the feeling of it," he says. "It's like a quintessential expression of the Beat perspective and philosophy, where you're down in the gutter but you're also beatific. You're spiritually uplifted."
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