HOWL And Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg City Lights

HOWL And Other Poems

Pages

57

Format

Paperback

Release date

January 1959

Publisher

City Lights

Weight

3 oz

Size

4.9 x 0.2 x 6.2 "
The landmark, original publication of Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL & Other Poems.

HOWL & Other Poems, the prophetic book that launched the Beat Generation, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Books in 1956. Considered the single most influential work of post-WWII United States poetry.

A strident critique of middle-class complacency, consumerism, and capitalist militarism, HOWL also celebrates the pleasures and freedoms of the physical world, including a tribute to homosexual love. In addition to “Howl,” poems in the book include: “A Supermarket in California,” “Sunflower Sutra,” “America,” “In the Baggage Room at Greyhound,” “Transcription of Organ Music,” and “Wild Orphan,” among others.