Howl
and other poems
by Allen Ginsberg
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"The epigraph for Howl is from Walt Whitman: 'Unscrew the locks from the doors!/Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!' Announcing his intentions with this ringing motto, Allen Ginsberg published a volume of poetry which broke so many social taboos that copies were impounded as obscene, and the publisher, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, was arrested. The court case that followed found for Ginsberg and his publisher, and the publicity made both the poet and the book famous. Ginsberg went on from this beginning to become a cultural icon of sixties radicalism. This works seminal place in the culture is indicated in Czeslaw Milosz's poetic tribute to Ginsberg: 'Your blasphemous howl still resounds in a neon desert where the human tribe wanders, sentenced to unreality'."--PUBLISHER.
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Friends and associates, Technique, Poetry, Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Beat generation, American poetry, Beats (Persons), Poetry (poetic works by one author), Graphic novels, Adaptations, Comic books, strips, Friendship, Howl (Ginsberg, Allen), Motion pictures, united statesPeople
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Howl: original draft facsimile, transcript and variant versions, fully annotated by author, with contemporaneous correspondence, account of first public reading, legal skirmishes, precursor texts and bibliography
2006, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
in English
- 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed.
0061137456 9780061137457
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Howl: original draft facsimile, transcript & variant versions, fully annotated by author, with contemporaneous correspondence, account of first public reading, legal skirmishes, precursor texts & bibliography
1986, Harper & Row
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0060156287 9780060156282
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This annotated version of Ginsberg's classic is the poet's own re-creation of the revolutionary work's composition process, along with anecdotes and an intimate look at the poet's writing techniques.
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