<TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>Howl on Trial</TitleText> <Subtitle>The Battle for Free Expression</Subtitle>

City Lights Books onix@onixsuite.com 20130217 eng

GCDS-9780872864795 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100083370 02 0872864790 03 9780872864795 15 9780872864795 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>Howl on Trial</TitleText> <Subtitle>The Battle for Free Expression</Subtitle> 1 B01 Morgan, Bill Bill Morgan Bill Morgan is a painter and archival consultant working in New York City. His previous publications include The Works of Allen Ginsberg 1941-1994: A Descriptive Bibliography and Lawrence Ferlinghetti: a Comprehensive Bibliography. He has worked as an archivist for Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, and Timothy Leary. 2 B01 Peters, Nancy J. Nancy J. Peters Nancy J. Peters is the former publisher of City Lights Books, co-author of Literary San Francisco and translator of Dreams of Dreams by Antonio Tabucchi. 3 A24 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights Books, author of A Coney Island of the Mind and Pictures of the Gone World, among numerous other books, has been drawing from life since his student days in Paris where he frequented the Academie Julien and where he did his first oil painting. 01 eng 224 01 The inside story of the publication and defense of Howl in correspondence, documents and photographs. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Howl and Other Poems, with over 1,000,000 copies in print, City Lights presents the story of editing, publishing, and defending the landmark poem within a broader context of obscenity issues and censorship of literary works. The collection includes: * The complete “The Howl Letters” — correspondence between Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, John Hollander, Richard Eberhart, Louis Ginsberg, and others – with first-person insight into Ginsberg’s thinking and the significance of the poems to the author and his contemporaries. * Ferlinghetti’s account of hearing “Howl” read at the Six Gallery, of editing the book, and of his court battle to defend its publication. * A timeline of censorship in the U.S. that places the Howl case in the broader historical context of obscenity issues and censorship of literary works. * Newspaper reportage, magazine essays, cartoons, photographs, and letters to the editor that illuminate the cultural climate of the mid-1950s, when sexual expression in print was suppressed. * Excerpts from the trial transcript that show the brilliant criminal lawyer Jake Ehrlich in action. * ACLU Defense Counsel Albert Bendich’s reflections on the Howl case, and his thoughts about challenges to Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms. *A look at how the fight against censorship continues today in new forms. "Featuring extensive trial transcripts, letters between Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg and clips from the San Francisco Chronicle – whose columnists strongly supported Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti and Howl – the book offers a broad perspective. After a brief trial, federal Judge Clayton Horn ruled that Howl wasn't obscene because it had not been written with lewd intent and had 'redeeming social importance.' This set a landmark precedent, enabling the publication of books by, among others, Burroughs, Henry Miller and Vladimir Nabokov." – The Los Angeles Times Book Review "Howl on Trial uses original sources, from Ginsberg's and others' letters to the trial transcripts, photos and media coverage of the time, and illuminates the private thoughts of some of the protagonists. It's sad, funny, silly and deadly serious in turns and at the same time." – The San Francisco Chronicle "This year is the fiftieth anniversary of Howl and Other Poems, and to read the various volumes issued to celebrate the book's golden jubilee is to be reminded that half a century later, Ginsberg has remained an iconic countercultural figure . . . Howl and Other Poems was, of course, at the center of a landmark legal battle over obscenity (summaries of the battle and a collection of key documents relating to it are available in Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression.)" – Bookforum "When Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was published Nov. 1, 1956, most of the first printing of 1,000 copies was seized by authorities in San Francisco on the grounds that the book was obscene. A year later, Ginsberg's publisher, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, was acquitted of selling obscenity. Fifty years later, more than 1 million copies of Howl are in print. New books about the poet, a gay leftist during the Cold War, include . . . Howl on Trial edited by Morgan and Nancy Peters." – USA Today "This book is a kind of literary mix tape: a compendium of letters, newspaper articles, trial testimony transcripts, and other archival material that takes you right back to that culturally fraught time, when publishing great art could be considered a crime against society. It's both chilling and enlightening to read through it all." – Marc Weingarten, San Francisco Magazine"A highly entertaining book about the landmark freedom of speech trial that made this store famous. This book is increasingly timely as FCC regulations and Net Neutrality enter the public debate, and could shape the future of our most basic freedoms. Read this to equip yourself for the coming battle against the powers of censorship." —Staff Recommendation by Chad, City Lights Books 02 The inside story of the publication and defense of Howl in correspondence, documents and photographs. 08 "Howl on Trial as a whole is something of a documentary history, including letters between Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg (the latter remaining in Europe beyond the reach of law), photocopies of various contemporary newspaper and magazine articles written about the trial, excerpts from the trial transcript and the text of the Judge Clayton W. Horn's decision. These are rounded out with brief commemorative essays. The combination is highly informative and eminently readable. . . . the hero of Howl on Trial is clearly Lawrence Ferlinghetti. . . . A considerable majority of Americans would approve of both Judge Horn's decision and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's courage. . . . The hero of Howl on Trial deserves our unqualified respect and gratitude."-Gilbert Purdy Eclectica Magazine 08 "Featuring extensive trial transcripts, letters between Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg and clips from the San Francisco Chronicle – whose columnists strongly supported Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti and Howl – the book offers a broad perspective. After a brief trial, federal Judge Clayton Horn ruled that Howl wasn't obscene because it had not been written with lewd intent and had 'redeeming social importance.' This set a landmark precedent, enabling the publication of books by, among others, Burroughs, Henry Miller and Vladimir Nabokov." The Los Angeles Times Book Review 08 "Howl on Trial uses original sources, from Ginsberg's and others' letters to the trial transcripts, photos and media coverage of the time, and illuminates the private thoughts of some of the protagonists. It's sad, funny, silly and deadly serious in turns and at the same time." The San Francisco Chronicle 08 "A fascinating assortment of material-newspaper articles, transcripts, photographs, letters from the principals, commentary-on the 1957 obscenity trial in San Francisco that pitted the 'people' against City Lights, the bookshop that published and sold Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems. A volume that will appeal to all who cherish their right to read uncensored the outpourings of the human heart." Kirkus Reviews 08 "This year is the fiftieth anniversary of Howl and Other Poems, and to read the various volumes issued to celebrate the book's golden jubilee is to be reminded that half a century later, Ginsberg has remained an iconic countercultural figure . . . Howl and Other Poems was, of course, at the center of a landmark legal battle over obscenity (summaries of the battle and a collection of key documents relating to it are available in Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression.)" Bookforum 08 "When Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was published Nov. 1, 1956, most of the first printing of 1,000 copies was seized by authorities in San Francisco on the grounds that the book was obscene. A year later, Ginsberg's publisher, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, was acquitted of selling obscenity. Fifty years later, more than 1 million copies of Howl are in print. New books about the poet, a gay leftist during the Cold War, include . . . Howl on Trial edited by Morgan and Nancy Peters." USA Today 08 "This book is a kind of literary mix tape: a compendium of letters, newspaper articles, trial testimony transcripts, and other archival material that takes you right back to that culturally fraught time, when publishing great art could be considered a crime against society. It's both chilling and enlightening to read through it all." Marc Weingarten, San Francisco Magazine 08 "A fitting tribute to Howl on its 50th anniversary, this casebook reprints Allen Ginsberg's landmark poem and collects important sources related to the obscenity trial that followed the 1957 sale of Howl & Other Poems at Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. With chronologies for Howl and "Milestones of Literary Censorship"; highly recommended." William Gargan, Brooklyn Coll. Lib., CUNY in the Library Journal 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100083370/images/87286100083370L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100083370/images/87286100083370S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100083370 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20061101 01 8 in 02 5 in 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20061101 01 02 14.95 USD