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Howl and Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trail at which a series of poets a

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“The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.”

— Allen Ginsberg, amazon.com

Tagged: Open

“My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use—my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.”

— Allen Ginsberg, amazon.com

Tagged: Writers, Books, texts, Space

“We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter.”

— Allen Ginsberg, amazon.com

Tagged: Writers

“Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!”

— Allen Ginsberg, amazon.com

Tagged: Holy, Everything

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”

— Allen Ginsberg, amazon.com

Tagged: Mind, Generations, Fix