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<p class=MsoNormal>The film was nominated for a Grand Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Golden Berlin Bear prize at the Berlin Film Festival. Carter Burwell was nominated for film composer of the year award for this and four other films at the World Soundtrack Awards. <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>Howl </i>won the Freedom of Expression Award from the National Board of Review. </p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>I have a copy</b> of the new DVD of Rob Epstein &amp; Jeffrey Friedman&#8217;s motion picture <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Howl, </i>starring James Franco as Allen Ginsberg, <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>for the</b> <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>first three readers</b> of this blog who correctly answer the following two questions:</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Members of my family, immediate &amp; extended, and regular contributors to this blog are not eligible. Neither are current or former employees of City Lights nor residents of Nowhere Zen, New Jersey. Send your entries via email to Silliman AT <span class=SpellE>gmail</span> DOT com. You <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>must</i> put HOWL CONTEST in the headline. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242">I saw the best exposition of a poem in a major motion picture, Rob Epstein &amp; Jeffrey Friedman&#8217;s </span><a href="http://howlthemovie.com/theaters/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Howl</span></i></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242">, </span></i><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242">coming to art theaters starting on the 24th &amp; also, I believe, available thru various video-on-demand services.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> Howl</i> is also perhaps the only major motion picture I&#8217;ve ever seen that is, in both form &amp; function, the close reading of a text. I have never seen a film based on a work of literature that even remotely approached <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Howl&#8217;s </i>devotion to the words on the paper. If you&#8217;re a writer, or care about poetry, you are almost certainly going to love this film. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Howl </i>was made for you, with intelligence &amp; more than a little cinematic bravery, and it shows. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Howl </i>is a wonderful motion picture. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242">It is a lot harder, however, to imagine <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Howl</i> appealing to a broad audience. Virtually every word in this film comes directly from the poem itself &#8211; maybe one third of its 90 minutes are given over to a pastiche of different readings that start with the film&#8217;s first words, James Franco as Ginsberg reading the title and dedication at the Six Gallery in 1955, then launching into a surprisingly soft [and quite effective] presentation of its famous opening words<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">One point that I&#8217;ve made
three times* since I began the Blog a little over a month ago is that themes, for
me at least, don&#8217;t work. That is to say, I literally can&#8217;t read them. <span class="GramE">Them, in this instance, being <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">poems
with a point.</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>When I try,
the poem invariably loses my interest before I complete the text. My experience
as a reader is that it feels like coercive sentiment &amp; I find myself
physically repelled by the poem. The affect is nausea. It doesn&#8217;t matter
whether I agree with the sentiment or not. Nor for that matter does it need to
be about war or politics &#8211; I&#8217;ve had the same problem with any number of other
noble topics, from AIDS to the environment to love. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Great political poetry &#8211;
&amp; by extension thematic poetry &#8211; is not impossible. I would point to Allen
Ginsberg&#8217;s &#8220;Wichita Vortex Sutra, Part II&#8221; and Robert Duncan&#8217;s &#8220;The Fire, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Passages </i>13&#8221; as two of the finest works
of the past fifty years, let alone two of the best political poems. In each
instance, the devastation &amp; viciousness that is the essence of war**
functions as no more than one axis around which a much wider range of reference
is organized. The experience of each poem is to move outward, incorporating a
broader &amp; much richer cross-section of the world than, say, just the
political. In the process, each contextualizes (thus making a case for the
importance of) the underlying theme itself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">With its massive deployment
of parallelisms invoking a tone right out of the Old Testament and the
call-&amp;-response oral traditions of the black Baptist church, Amiri Baraka&#8217;s
&#8220;<a href="http://diversity.uoregon.edu/SomebodyBlewUpAmerica.htm">Somebody Blew
Up America</a>&#8221; is neither great poetry nor simply another commemorative bauble
by Pinsky, Collins or Angelou. At one level, the poem is about the palpable but
nonetheless abstract presence of evil in the world itself. At another, the
dizzying juxtapositions that are yoked together via the constant question &#8211;
&#8220;Who? Who? Who?&#8221; &#8211; play with the concept of paranoia itself. Anti-Semitism runs
throughout the poem, not simply in the few lines that have been scattered
widely about the media. So do anti-capitalism, anti-authoritarianism and a
limited version of anti-racism. But ultimately it is the referential range of
Baraka&#8217;s juxtapositions &#8211;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Who
need fossil fuel when the sun ain't <span class="SpellE">goin</span>' nowhere<br />
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<span class="GramE">Who</span> make the credit cards <br />
Who get the biggest tax cut <br />
Who walked out of the Conference <br />
Against Racism <br />
Who killed Malcolm, Kennedy &amp; his Brother <br />
Who killed Dr King, Who would want such a thing? <br />
Are they linked to the murder of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Lincoln</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">&#8211; <span class="GramE">that</span>
restricts the poet&#8217;s impulse. The poem exists entirely at the level of public
discourse. There may be moments of referential opacity if you don&#8217;t get a
reference, but none of intimacy. It may help some readers to know that &#8220;Little
Bobby&#8221; is Bobby Hutton, the first person to sign on with Huey Newton &amp;
Bobby Seale in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Oakland</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">&#8217;s Black Panther Party, gunned down at the age of 18
by the police there on </span><st1:date day="6" month="4" year="1968"><span style="font-family: Arial;">April 6, 1968</span></st1:date><span style="font-family: Arial;">, but the poem does nothing to suggest that Hutton,
or anyone for that matter, has any reality or meaning beyond the headlines from
which the poem is constructed. Private life is reduced to the mention of a tax
cut.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The public reactions to this
poem have generally missed its playful elements as well as the way in which
that reiterated baseline <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">who <span class="SpellE">who</span></i> echoes a genuine howl of grief that is also present
&amp; perfectly audible in the text. It is in the nature of public discourse to
miss just such elements of life, poetic justice of sorts for a text that is so </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">ind</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;">ebted to this same discourse. But the ineluctable
problem of any thematic </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">tex</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;">t
almost invariably has to do with its reduction of discourse. Duncan &amp;
Ginsberg could not be more radically opposed to Baraka. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">* With
respect to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2002_09_01_ronsilliman_archive.html%2381448405">Chain</a></i>,
<a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2002_09_01_ronsilliman_archive.html%2381947753">Louis
Cabris &amp; Ted Berrigan</a>, and <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2002_10_01_ronsilliman_archive.html%2382510403">Kit
Robinson</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">** It
matters little whether or not the war can be &#8220;justified.&#8221; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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