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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872860179 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100465920 02 0872860175 03 9780872860179 15 9780872860179 BC 1 A01 Ginsberg, Allen Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg was born June 3, 1926, the son of Naomi Ginsberg, Russian émigré, and Louis Ginsberg, lyric poet and school teacher, in Paterson, N.J. 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." 01 eng 57 00 57 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Beat Generation 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Poetry 01 <P>The epigraph for <strong>Howl</strong> is from Walt Whitman: "Unscrew the locks from the doors!/Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" Announcing his intentions with this ringing motto, Allen Ginsberg published a volume of poetry which broke so many social taboos that copies were impounded as obscene, and the publisher, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, was arrested. The court case that followed found for Ginsberg and his publisher, and the publicity made both the poet and the book famous. Ginsberg went on from this beginning to become a cultural icon of sixties radicalism. This works seminal place in the culture is indicated in Czeslaw Milosz's poetic tribute to Ginsberg: "Your blasphemous howl still resounds in a neon desert where the human tribe wanders, sentenced to unreality".</p> <P><strong><br /> </strong></p> 02 The epigraph for Howl is from Walt Whitman: "Unscrew the locks from the doors!/Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" Announcing his intentions with this ringing motto, Allen Ginsberg published a volume of poetry which broke so many social... 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100465920/images/87286100465920L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100465920/images/87286100465920S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100465920 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19560601 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 19560601 01 02 7.95 USD