Howl and Other Poems

AUTEUR(S): Allen Ginsberg.

TAAL: Engels.
UITGEVER: City Lights Books.
JAAR: 1956.
PAGINA’S: 64.
DRUK: Herdruk.
FORMAAT: mm.
GEWICHT: gram.
STAAT: Nieuw (New).
UITVOERING: Paperback.
ISBN/EAN: 9780872860179
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BESCHRIJVING

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.

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.

‘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