The setting of "Howl and Other Poems" is basically California, although Ginsberg does take us on a ride through the cities of America and around the world through his musings in the poems and primarily in "Howl." In general, the setting of the poem is America. More specifically Ginsberg wrote most of the poems while in San Francisco, San Jose, Berkeley, and New York. However, the settings he talks about in the works span America and even international places such as Tangiers, Turkey, Mexico, the Caribbean, Canada, China, Russia, and France.
Howl, and Other Poems