Howl and Other Poems

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 California“, „Sunflower Sutra“, „America“, „In the Baggage Room at Greyhound“, „Transcription of Organ Music“, and „Wild Orphan“, among others.