Howl and Other Poems

by Ginsberg, Allen

• ISBN13: 9780872860179
• ISBN10: 0872860175
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781439563984
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1956-06-01
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services
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Summary

"Allen Ginsberg's HowlA 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 trial at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene. Allen Ginsberg was born June 3, 1926, the son of Naomi Ginsberg, Russian emigre, and Louis Ginsberg, lyric poet and schoolteacher, in Paterson, New Jersey. To these facts Ginsberg adds: "High school in Paterson till 17, Columbia College, merchant marine, Texas and Denver copyboy, Times Square, amigos in jail, dishwashing, book reviews, Mexico City, market research, Satori in Harlem, Yucatan and Chiapas 1954, West Coast 3 years. Later Arctic Sea trip, Tangier, Venice, Amsterdam, Paris, read at Oxford Harvard Columbia Chicago, quit, wrote Kaddish 1959, made tape to leave behind & fade in Orient awhile. Carl Solomon to whom Howl is addressed, is a intuitive Bronx dadaist and prose-poet."

Table of Contents

Howl for Carl Solomon	7	(2)
William Carlos Williams
Howl	9	(18)
Footnote to Howl	27	(2)
A Supermarket in California	29	(2)
Transcription of Organ Music	31	(4)
Sunflower Sutra	35	(4)
America	39	(5)
In the Baggage Room at Greyhound	44	(5)
Earlier Poems:	49
An Asphodel	49	(1)
Song	50	(4)
Wild Orphan	54	(2)
In Back of the Real	56