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Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

Allen Ginsberg

The prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1965 is here presented in a commemorative hardcover edition! HOWL & Other Poems

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Stuff You Should Know

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Stuff You Should Know

The hosts received a copy of the book as a gift from a listener and they listed it alongside some of the other books they received.

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We got Howl, Colin, Why Howl We Do Anything Means Everything by Dove Seidman

— Episode: SYSK Selects: How Grief Works

Episode: SYSK Selects: How Grief Works

The hosts received a copy of the book as a gift from a listener and they listed it alongside some of the other books they received.

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We got Howl, Colin, Why Howl We Do Anything Means Everything by Dove Seidman

Episode: Short Stuff: Flower Power

The hosts noted that Ginsberg sometimes used very short titles, mentioning "Howl" as an example.

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He's I love Alan Ginsberg great poet and he always had these kind of funny long titles like that

yeah, or very short like howl

The Rubin Report

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The Rubin Report

This book was mentioned alongside others that faced censorship in the past, illustrating the advancements in free speech.

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you couldn't publish...Alan Ginsberg's Howl...before about 1960 without worrying about being dragged into court. We got rid of all of that and then we created the internet...

— Episode: After This Year, Do You Want More Govt....

Episode: After This Year, Do You Want More Govt. In Your Li...

This book was mentioned alongside others that faced censorship in the past, illustrating the advancements in free speech.

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you couldn't publish...Alan Ginsberg's Howl...before about 1960 without worrying about being dragged into court. We got rid of all of that and then we created the internet...

American History Tellers

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American History Tellers

This book defeated obscenity charges in court later in the same year that One Magazine won its Supreme Court appeal.

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Later that same year, poet Allen Ginsberg's book Howl also defeated obscenity charges in court.

— Episode: Stonewall | Evolutionary, Not Revolution...

Episode: Stonewall | Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary | 1

This book defeated obscenity charges in court later in the same year that One Magazine won its Supreme Court appeal.

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Later that same year, poet Allen Ginsberg's book Howl also defeated obscenity charges in court.

Episode: The 1968 Chicago Protests - I Regret Nothing | 3

This signature work by Allen Ginsberg was controversial, sparking outrage and an obscenity trial in 1957 due to its content regarding drug use, mental health, and graphic descriptions of gay sex. Literary experts ultimately testified that the poem possessed redeeming social importance.

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His signature work Howl opens with some of the most famous lines in all of American literature.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked.

In Howl, Ginsberg referenced illicit drug use, explored themes of mental health and madness, and graphically described gay sex.

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