Howl and Other Poems

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 trial 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. Allen Ginsberg is the poet whose metamorphosis from a quiet, brilliant, burning bohemian scholar trapped by his flames and repressions to an epic vocal bard is described from life in these pages. And now you've got an abstract for your term paper!