Comments on: Howl for a new generation (with apologies to Allen Ginsberg) https://groundviews.org/2008/08/03/howl-for-a-new-generation-with-apologies-to-allen-ginsberg/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=howl-for-a-new-generation-with-apologies-to-allen-ginsberg Journalism for Citizens Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:40:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: Samanthi https://groundviews.org/2008/08/03/howl-for-a-new-generation-with-apologies-to-allen-ginsberg/#comment-3175 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:40:42 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=953#comment-3175 Hello Sam, you are absolutely right about the best minds of our generation.
I wasn’t necessarily writing about the best minds, just “the minds of my generation” and our collective silence and pain.

]]> By: sam https://groundviews.org/2008/08/03/howl-for-a-new-generation-with-apologies-to-allen-ginsberg/#comment-3173 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:48:32 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=953#comment-3173 In Ginsberg’s original Howl, he “saw the best minds of his generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix”.

In Sri Lanka, the Government’s clensing of rebellion of the early 70s and late 80s, and the desire by the LTTE to remove Tamil opposition, also “saw the best minds” destroyed. If they were still here, Sri Lanka would be a different place.

Today, the best minds of my generation have already left the island or are planning to, or they are hiding, or they are attending meetings or writing reports, or they have given up and are selling lingerie and swimsuits for global consumption… searching for a different kind of “angry fix”.

]]> By: Sena https://groundviews.org/2008/08/03/howl-for-a-new-generation-with-apologies-to-allen-ginsberg/#comment-3164 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:17:26 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=953#comment-3164 Samanthi,

Thanks for this poem.

Sena

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