The prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first
published in 1956 is here presented in a commemorative 40th
Anniversary Edition. When the book arrived from its British
printers, it was seized almost immediately by U.S. Customs, and
shortly thereafter the San Francisco police arrested its publisher
and editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, together with the City Lights
Bookstore manager, Shigeyoshi Murao. The two of them were charged
with disseminating obscene literature, and the case went to trial
in the Municipal Court of Judge Clayton Horn. A parade of
distinguished literary and academic witnesses persuaded the judge
that the title poem was indeed not obscene and that it had
"redeeming social significance". Thus was Howl and Other Poems
freed to become the single most influential poetic work of the post
World War II era, with over 800,000 copies now in print.
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