Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

Author: Allen Ginsberg

Language: English

Publisher: City Lights Publishers

Dimensions: 5.12 x 0.39 x 6.5 inches

ISBN-10: 872863107

ISBN-13: 978-0872863101

Publication Date: January 1, 2001

Print Length: 56 pages

This landmark, original publication of Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL & Other Poems! was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Books in 1956. Considered the single most influential work of post-WWII United States poetry, the City Lights edition of HOWL has remained in print for more than 60 years, with well over 1,000,000 copies in print.

A strident critique of middle-class complacency, consumerism, and capitalist militarism, HOWL also celebrates the pleasures and freedoms of the physical world, including a tribute to homosexual love. In addition to “Howl,” poems in the book include: “A Supermarket in California,” “Sunflower Sutra,” “America,” “In the Baggage Room at Greyhound,” “Transcription of Organ Music,” and “Wild Orphan,” among others.

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