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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.5
EAN: 9780872860179
ISBN: 0872860175
Label: City Lights Publishers
Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 57
Publication Date: January 01, 2001
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Studio: City Lights Publishers
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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".
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poetry, Pocket Poets classic
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For some reason I thought this was going to be a large collection of poems by Allen Ginsberg. I can say I've been a fan for quite sometime. This was not the case. In fact, This book only consists of 57 pages. Its a very small book so I don't care how famous Howl is or if it's being made into a movie with James Franco. This is not worth the purchase of 6 or more dollars.
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Can your household live without this book? Well, probably. But there's no reason it shouldn't.
The one gripe is the odd sizing of this book. C'mon, City Lights, what book is this supposed to sit on the shelf with?!
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Don't get me wrong. I attended 3 readings by Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky at Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusettes in the late 1970's and even recorded "Contest of the Bards" and handed him a copy of it at his request,... I 'absolutely' consider his oratory style of delivery and poetic verse and style amazing and brilliant and so very very entertaining and inspiring.. but the 'greatest' epic poem or poet of his century I just can't agree with. Gary Snyder made such an impact with introducing ... Read More
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While Allen Ginsberg's three-part, long poem "Howl" is borne of a particular moment in American history --- the Joseph McCarthy congressional witch hunts; the cold war with Russia (which includes, to a degree, the Korean War); social and racial unrest --- it is still possible to read and appreciate the work without the context of the time. The staccato beats of the stanzas, the raw and potent language, as well as the cross-country travels in the poem are all worth exploring in detail outside of the realm ... Read More
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Howl, And Other Poems-Allen Ginsberg *****
When originally released in the 1950's Howl was one of the most contraversial works in literature up to that point even rivaling that of Ulysses. Filled with shocking imagry and what some may concider to be distasteful wording and dipictions of overt homosexuality and non-conformity along side excessive drug use and things of that nature. The author as well as other poets were taken to court on the subject matter of the poem was obscene, which ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.5
EAN: 9780872860179
ISBN: 0872860175
Label: City Lights Publishers
Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 57
Publication Date: January 01, 2001
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Studio: City Lights Publishers