1955年秋日某夜,一帮被称为“垮掉文人”的美国反学院派诗人在加州圣弗兰西斯科第六画室举办了一次诗歌朗诵会,时年三十的艾伦·金斯堡以他如波涛涌动、急风暴雨般的声音形成的强劲语流“倾泻”了他的诗作《嚎叫》。朗诵会现场的爆炸性反应与会后的巨大冲击波使此一时刻有了“垮掉的一代诞生之夜”一说。“垮掉的一代”作为一个新的文学流派也具有了“事件性”的标志并广为人知。自此,金斯堡的大名亦与长诗《嚎叫》形影相系。 One night on the autumn of 1955, a group of American anti-academics poets known as “Beat Literati” organized a poetry reading session in Studio Six, San Francisco, California, Ginsberg made his poem “howl” in the strong language of his thunderstorm-like sound. The explosive reaction of the reading session and the huge shock wave after the meeting made this moment a “birth night of the beaten generations.” The “Beat Generation” as a new genre of literature also has the “event nature” sign and is widely known. Since then, Kingsburg’s name also with the poem “Howl” shadow phase.