"Allen
Ginsberg's Howl & Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books
in the fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. Customs and the San Francisco
police, it was the subject of a long court trial at which a series of poets and
professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene.
Allen
Ginsberg was born June 3, 1926, the son of Naomi Ginsberg, Russian émigré, and
Louis Ginsberg, lyric poet and schoolteacher, in Paterson, New Jersey. To these
facts Ginsberg adds: “High school in Paterson till 17, Columbia College,
merchant marine, Texas and Denver copyboy, Times Square, amigos in jail,
dishwashing, book reviews, Mexico City, market research, Satori in Harlem,
Yucatan and Chiapas 1954, West Coast 3 years. Later Arctic Sea trip, Tangier,
Venice, Amsterdam, Paris, read at Oxford Harvard Columbia Chicago, quit, wrote
Kaddish 1959, made tape to leave behind & fade in Orient awhile. Carl
Solomon to whom Howl is addressed, is a intuitive Bronx dadaist and prose-poet.”
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