A long poem by Allen Ginsberg, written in 1954-1955 and published in his 1956 collection Howl and Other Poems. Its long, incantatory lines depict a generation of Ginsberg's friends and contemporaries destroyed by the pressures of postwar American conformity, and its 1957 obscenity trial, brought against publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti and resolved in the poem's favor, made it a landmark case for literary free expression and one of the defining texts of the Beat Generation. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Was Howl ever ruled obscene?
No. Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled in 1957 that the poem was not obscene.
No. After Howl and Other Poems was released in 1956, the publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the City Lights Bookstore manager, Shigeyoshi Murao, were charged with disseminating obscene literature, and both were arrested. On October 3, 1957, Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that the poem was not obscene. Although it was highly controversial at first and excluded for years from the academic canon, the poem has gradually come to be regarded as a great work of twentieth-century American literature.
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Howl, also known as Howl for Carl Solomon, is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1954-1955 and published in his 1956 collection, Howl and Other Poems.
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"Howl", also known as "Howl for Carl Solomon", is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1954-1955 and published in his 1956 collection, Howl and Other Poems.
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Howl, also known as Howl for Carl Solomon, is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1954-1955 and published in his 1956 collection, Howl and Other Poems.
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Beat poetry, LGBTQ poetry
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