"My tribute to Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl'. " by Clinton De Vere (2012. watercolour on 300g paper. 17 x 24cm.)

"My tribute to Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' " by Clinton De Vere.
(2012. watercolour on 300g paper. 17 x 24cm.)

The following excerpt from Part 1 of 'Howl' is in the painting:
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving
hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry
fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the
starry dynamo in the machinery of night,.."