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Howl and other Poems

by Allen Ginsberg

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San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop. CLEAN fine 1956 second edition paperpack. . Fine. Paperback. Second Edition. 1956.

Synopsis

"Howl" was originally written as a performance piece by a young, new poet, Allen Ginsberg.  When published by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1956, Howl broke so many social taboos that copies were impounded as obscene, and  Ferlinghetti arrested. In 1957 the courts ruled that the poem was not obscene, and "Howl" went on to become the most popular poem of the Beat Generation. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; Angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night.

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Bookseller
wmburgettbooks & collectibles US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
042403
Title
Howl and other Poems
Author
Allen Ginsberg
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Quantity Available
1
Edition
Second Edition
Publisher
City Lights Pocket Bookshop
Place of Publication
San Francisco
Date Published
1956
Size
16mo - over 5¾" - 6&

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