Allen Ginsberg

Howl

originally published:
San Fransisco : City Lights Pocket Bookshop
November 1956

We offered this Advance Review Copy of the first edition in our Catalog 80.

awards:

  • First Book(1956)
  • Library of Congress 88 Books That Shaped America(1956)

reference info

bio notes:
born: 6/3/1926
died: 4/5/1997
born as: Allen Ginsberg

American poet whose epic poem Howl (1956) is considered to be one of the most significant products of the Beat Movement. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

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