Howl：Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First ...

Firstpublishedin1956,AllenGinsberg'sHowlisapropheticmasterpiece—anepicragingagainstdehumanizingsocietythatovercamecensorshiptrialsandobscenitychargestobecomeoneofthemostwidelyreadpoemsofthecentury.ThisannotatedversionofGinsberg'sclassicisthepoet'sownre-creationoftherevolutionarywork'scompositionprocess—aswellasatreasuretroveofanecdotes,anintimatelookatthepoet'swritingtechniques,andaveritablesocialhistoryofthe1950s.

AllenGinsberg(1926-1997)wasinductedintotheAmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters,wasawardedthemedalofChevalierdel'OrdredesArtsetdesLettresbytheFrenchministerofculture,wontheNationalBookAwardforTheFallofAmerica,andwasacofounderoftheJackKerouacSchoolofDisembodiedPoeticsattheNaropaInstitute,thefirstaccreditedBuddhistcollegeintheWesternworld.