Reading list: the Beat poets

For the Independent, Gillian Orr came up with a brief reading list on the Beat poets.One book on the list:Howl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergA landmark portrayal of a “generation destroyed by madness” and the downtrodden lives of Ginsberg and his fellow “angelheaded hipsters”, ‘Howl’ is one of the most important poems of the post-war period. The story of the obscenity trial that followed its