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Howl and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
ISBN: 0872860175
ISBN-13: 9780872860179
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Ginsberg's celebrated 1956 poem brought the writing of the Beat Generation to widespread attention. In the words of a critic who was there, when Ginsberg read "Howl" aloud for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco in October of 1955, the audience knew "at the deepest level that a barrier had been broken, that a human voice and body had been hurled against the harsh wall of America." After the reading, budding publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti sent a telegram to Ginsberg that exactly echoed the letter Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote to Ginsberg's hero Walt Whitman when Whitman published the first edition of his LEAVES OF GRASS. Ferlinghetti's telegram read, "I greet you at the beginning of a great career. When do I get the manuscript?" He got it, and in spite of a protracted obscenity trial, got the poem published. It went on to be translated into more than 20 languages and become one of the signature poems of 20th-century American poetry.
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published date: 1956
Size: 4.75 x 6.25 inches
Weight: 0.15 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Ginsberg's love for a man with whom he shared some of life's worst experiences is celebrated in poems which were once the subject of a prolonged court trial.
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Howl and Other Poems
GINSBERG, ALLEN
SAN FRANCISCO, CA: City Lights Books, 1969 Later Printing. Paperback. VG CONDITION. ( more information)
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City Lights Books, 1992. Trade Paperback. Fair/No Jacket. Type: Ex-Library Well read ex-library copy, creases in cover, some ink doodling on some back pages. ( more information)
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Allen Ginsberg
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City Lights Books, 1978. Soft Cover. Very Good. 29th printing, light shelf wear, small ink smudge on front, no rips or tears, not age toned, 44 unmarked pages, introduction by William Carlos Williams, classic collection of early Ginsberg poems originally appeared in 1956. ( more information)
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Allen Ginsberg
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City Lights Publishers. Near Fine. 1956. Paperback. 0872860175 . Book is like new. Pasadena's premier independent new and used bookstore. Poetry; City Lights Pocket Poets Series; 0.31 x 5.91 x 4.8 Inches; 57 pages . ( more information)
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Allen Ginsberg
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