Reason magazine's history of the Howl and Other Poems obscenity case, cited for the March 25, 1957 customs seizure, the arrest of City Lights manager Shigeyoshi Murao and the warrant issued for Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and the 1957 trial.
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AuthorFiona Harrigan
PublisherReason
URLhttps://reason.com/2022/08/15/howl-and-other-poems/
Source Typereference
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Reason is an established American magazine of politics and culture with a professional editorial process; this piece gives dated, specific reporting on the Howl obscenity case, though it is a magazine retrospective rather than a court record or academic history. Sources
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