Howl and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- New Book
- ISBN 10
- 0872860175
- ISBN 13
- 9780872860179
- Seller
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Woolloongabba, Queensland, Australia
2 Copies Available from This Seller
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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
- Book Merchant Jenkins, ANZAAB / ILAB (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0004809
- Title
- Howl and Other Poems
- Author
- Allen Ginsberg
- Format/Binding
- Softcover Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New Book
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- Later Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0872860175
- ISBN 13
- 9780872860179
- Publisher
- City Lights Books
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 2001
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