Howl and Other Poems

The prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1965 is here presented in a commemorative hardcover edition!

The landmark, original publication of Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL & Other Poems!

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