The prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first
published in 1965 is here presented in a commemorative 40th
Anniversary Edition. Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was
originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956.
Subsequently seized by U.S. customs and the San Francisco police,
it was the subject of a long court trail at which a series of poets
and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene.
Howl & Other Poems is the single most influential poetic work
of the post-World War II era, with over 1,000,000 copies now in
print. "Howl was Allen's metamorphosis from quiet, brilliant,
burning bohemian scholar trapped by his flames and repressions to
epic vocal bard."--Michael McClure "It is the poet, Allen Ginsberg,
who has gone, in his own body, through the horrifying experiences
described from life in these pages." --William Carlos Williams "At
the height of his bardic powers, Allen Ginsberg could terrify the
authorities with the mere utterance of the syllable "om" as he led
street throngs of citizens protesting the Vietnam War. Ginsberg
reigned as the raucous poet of American hippiedom and as a literary
pioneer whose freewheeling masterwork "Howl" prevailed against
government censorship in a landmark obscenity trial 50 years ago."
-- New York Times "Fifty years ago, on October 3, Judge Clayton
Horn ruled that Allen Ginsberg's great epic Beat-era poem HOWL was
not obscene but instead, a work of literary and social merit. This
ruling allowed for the publication of HOWL and exonerated the poet
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who faced jail time and a fine 50 years ago
for publishing 'HOWL.'" -- Pacifica.org Allen Ginsberg was born
June 3, 1926, the son of Naomi Ginsberg, Russian emigre, and Louis
Ginsberg, lyric poet and schoolteacher, in Paterson, New Jersey. To
these facts Ginsberg adds: "High school in Paterson till 17,
Columbia College, merchant marine, Texas and Denver copyboy, Times
Square, amigos in jail, dishwashing, book reviews, Mexico City,
market research, Satori in Harlem, Yucatan and Chiapas 1954, West
Coast 3 years. Later Arctic Sea trip, Tangier, Venice, Amsterdam,
Paris, read at Oxford Harvard Columbia Chicago, quit, wrote Kaddish
1959, made tape to leave behind & fade in Orient awhile. Carl
Solomon to whom Howl is addressed, is a intuitive Bronx dadaist and
prose-poet."
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