Quite a few people have asked me, Why Ashcan Rantings?, and here's the answer:
Ashcan Rantings pays homage to Howl by Allen Ginsberg, a masterful beat poem that just celebrated its 50th anniversary. Walking in the footsteps of Walt Whitman, Ginsberg was the American poet of his time and an artist of uncompromising vision. On March 24th of this year, I reread Howl and this excerpt caught my attention:
If you have any others questions, please post them in the comments or shoot us an email. And read Howl.
Ashcan Rantings pays homage to Howl by Allen Ginsberg, a masterful beat poem that just celebrated its 50th anniversary. Walking in the footsteps of Walt Whitman, Ginsberg was the American poet of his time and an artist of uncompromising vision. On March 24th of this year, I reread Howl and this excerpt caught my attention:
Peyote solidities of halls, backyard green tree cemetery dawns, wine drunkenness over the rooftops, storefront boroughs of teahead joyride neon blinking traffic light, sun and moon and tree vibrations in the roaring winter dusks of Brooklyn, ashcan rantings and kind king light of mind, who chained themselves to subways for the endless ride from Battery to holy Bronx on benzedrine until the noise of wheels and children brought them down shuddering mouth-wracked and battered bleak of brain all drained of brilliance in the drear light of Zoo...Around this time, I had been thinking about starting a music blog and web site and decided I liked the sound of Ashcan Rantings. I found that both the Blogger and .com addresses were open – and that was that. Ashcan Rantings it was.
If you have any others questions, please post them in the comments or shoot us an email. And read Howl.
