Who is Carl Solomon from The Portable Beat Reader and what is their importance? The_Portable_Beat_Reader English & Literature Carl Solomon | The Portable Beat Reader

Carl Solomon is a minor Beat writer but is a major influence on Allen Ginsberg. Solomon meets Ginsberg in an insane asylum where they are both voluntary patients, and the two of them become quick friends. Ginsberg devotes "Howl" to Solomon and refers to him repeatedly in the third section of the poem.