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【注释】
嚎叫：原诗分三部，这里译载了第一部，并作了些删节。标点分行按原诗排照（译者）。
希普斯特：美国存在主义者的一种称号。
仙人掌素，苯甲胺：均为幻觉剂。
普罗提纳斯：埃及新柏拉图主义哲学家（公元205-270）。
坡：美国诗人、小说家（1809-1849）。诗风神秘怪诞，首创推理小说，现代派文学远祖之一。
圣约翰：西班牙神学博士、著名抒情诗人（1542-1591）。曾因改革神学而惨遭迫害，其诗作以抒情和神秘为特色。
阿尔卡特拉兹：一所联邦监狱。
普鲁士：哀怨的爵士歌曲。
"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.