The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later/Howl
Shinder, Jason (Allen Ginsberg)
Language: English
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux; (2006), NY, 2006
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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rdcover edition, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Very slight spine slant to the book. The price clipped jacket is slightly rubbed. Includes a Chronology, About the Contributors, and Acknowledgments; 288 numbered pages. Includes a limited edition cd of Allen Ginsberg reading "Howl" in 1956. Also includes a very good copy of the City Lights 20th printing of the original poem published in 1968. The covers of Howl are a bit darkened. Neither book has any names or other marking in or on the books.
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- Title
- The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later/Howl
- Author
- Shinder, Jason (Allen Ginsberg)
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux; (2006), NY
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0374173435
- ISBN 13
- 9780374173432
- Edition
- 1st Edition
In 1956, City Lights, a small San Francisco bookstore, published Allen Ginsbergs Howl and Other Poems with its trademark black-and-white cover. The original edition cost seventy-five cents, but there was something priceless about its eponymous piece. Although it gave a voice to the new generation that came of age in the conservative years following World War II, the poem also conferred a strange, subversive power that continues to exert its influence to this day. Ginsberg went on to become one of the most eminent and celebrated writers of the second half of the twentieth century, and Howl became the critical axis of the worldwide literary, cultural, and political movement that would be known as the Beat generation.
The year 2006 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Howl, and The Poem That Changed America will celebrate and shed new light on this profound cultural work. With new essays by many of todays most distinguished writers, including Frank Bidart, Andrei Codrescu, Vivian Gornick, Phillip Lopate, Daphne Merkin, Rick Moody, Robert Pinsky, and Luc Sante, The Poem That Changed America reveals the pioneering influence of Howl down through the decades and its powerful resonance today.
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About the Author
Jason Shinders most recent collection of poetry is Among Women. He is co-editing the letters between Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and teaches in the Writing Seminars at Bennington College.
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