Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets, No. 4)
by Ginsberg, Allen
- Used
- Acceptable
- Paperback
- Condition
- Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0872860175
- ISBN 13
- 9780872860179
- Seller
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Denton, Texas, United States
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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
- Campus Bookstore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0000148623
- Title
- Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets, No. 4)
- Author
- Ginsberg, Allen
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0872860175
- ISBN 13
- 9780872860179
- Publisher
- City Lights Publishers
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1959-01-01
- Size
- 0.3150 in x 6.2205 in x 4.7244 i
- Bookseller catalogs
- Book;
- X weight
- 0.1543 lb
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Campus Bookstore
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