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Print Write a review Email this page Share this page		Howl on Trial The Battle for Free Expression Edited by Bill Morgan, Nancy J. Peters Introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Paperback - $14.95 $10.47 Save $4.48 (30%) Description Reviews In the News Detailed info Reader Reviews Reader comment | Jan 10, 2009, Michelle McFee I read this book last year and then passed it on to my grad student son, suggesting he read it because it is a very important document of the triumph of our right to free speech and I believe the trial itself has a standard for all such cases. I felt the book was well written, the information was meticulously documented, and it was an easy read (which is an opinion contray to that expressed by some reviewers that I read (which is why I never read reviews)). I intend to be there for the discussion - what a wonderful opportunity. Reader comment | Jan 10, 2009, Michelle McFee I read this book last year and then passed it on to my grad student son, suggesting he read it because it is a very important document of the triumph of our right to free speech and I believe the trial itself has a standard for all such cases. I felt the book was well written, the information was meticulously documented, and it was an easy read (which is an opinion contrary to that expressed by some reviewers that I read (which is why I never read reviews)). I intend to be there for the discussion - what a wonderful opportunity. Reader comment | Oct 5, 2007, SMIHI Moumen Ginsberg censored in the States when he was acclaimed in the heart of the Arab-Muslim world! What a terrible contradiction! In the fifties, Allen Ginsberg was one of the brilliant representatives of the american literature that haunted my town in North-Africa, Tangier. Gregory Corso, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Paul Bowles, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs were the other US literature giants that time to time visited Morocco or were living and working there. Their books...more were exposed in the bookstores (as in one called "Librairie des Colonnes" in Tangier) and libraries (the one of "The American School" for instance in the same Tangier) and Moroccans as well as all the readers of many countries of the world were diving with the biggest admiration in "The Naked Lunch", "On The Road" or in "A Tramway Named Desire". Drugs, homosexuality, communism (we heared proudly that Paul Bowles has been once member of the American CP)... nothing of these scandalous and repressed themes could interfer or mix the pleasure of meeting this immense literature of liberation, of deep humanism in its contreculture entity. My generation of Arabs coming out of the colonialism period was so excited to find in these books and minds what to enhance their thirst of anti-conformism and liberty. Then, America and her writers and intellectuals were a model, an ideal, the hope of our future. When I was watching, young man, members of the Beat Generation at the cafes all around the little square called Socco Chico in Tangier, or listening to lectures of poems and texts in Paul Bowles place at Chemin des amoureux Street, I never could imagine that censorship was acting in their prestigious country. In fact I must say that I was a dreaming boy... but nevertheless a kind of a coquelicot, a savage grass breathing in cosmopolitan marginalism. And that is what I filmed many many years later in " A Muslim Childhood" a feature about the fifties in Tangier and that is going to be screening in the 11 th Arab Film Festival the coming 20th of october in San Francisco. Moumen Smihi, film director