Description
For sale is a Very Good first paperback edition, later printing of Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg. Reprint Edition unstated, 2014 Martino Fine Books with the plates of the first edition City Lights Books in a slightly larger format. First printing, with no subsequent printing.
The exterior of the paperback edition is in Near Fine condition, with clean and bright covers with no creases, mild surface wear, strong title on a straight spine, clean page blocks, a tight binding with no creases, lightly rubbed spine ends, mild edge and corner wear. The interior of the book is Very Good condition, with a vertical crease in the first 16 pages. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
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, the City Lights edition of Howl has remained in print for more than 60 years, with well over 1,000,000 copies in print.
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.
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