Considered the single most influential work of post-WWII United States poetry. A strident critique of middle-class complacency, consumerism, and capitalist militarism, HOWL also celebrates the pleasures and freedoms of the physical world. In addition to "Howl, " poems in the book include: "A Supermarket in California, " "Sunflower Sutra, " "America, " "In the Baggage Room at Greyhound, " "Transcription of Organ Music, " and "Wild Orphan, " among others.