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嚎叫：原詩分三部，這裏譯載了第一部，並作了些刪節。標點分行按原詩排照（譯者）。
希普斯特：美國存在主義者的一種稱號。
仙人掌素，苯甲胺：均為幻覺劑。
普羅提納斯：埃及新柏拉圖主義哲學家（公元205-270）。
坡：美國詩人、小說傢（1809-1849）。詩風神秘怪誕，首創推理小說，現代派文學遠祖之一。
聖約翰：西班牙神學博士、著名抒情詩人（1542-1591）。曾因改革神學而慘遭迫害，其詩作以抒情和神秘為特色。
阿爾卡特拉茲：一所聯邦監獄。
普魯士：哀怨的爵士歌麯。
"Howl" is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1955 and published as part of his 1956 collection of poetry titled Howl and Other Poems. The poem is considered to be one of the great works of the Beat Generation, along with Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (1957) and William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch (1959). "Howl" was written as a performance piece and later published by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books. Upon its release, Ferlinghetti and the bookstore's manager, Shigeyoshi Murao, were charged with disseminating obscene literature, and both were arrested. On October 3, 1957, Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that the poem was not obscene, and "Howl" went on to become the most popular poem of the Beat Generation.