Advances in the technologies of printing, papermaking, and binding, as well as methods of distribution, made books. ' Howl ', also known as ' Howl for Carl Solomon ', is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 19541955 and published in his 1956 collection Howl and Other Poems. While the paperback revolution was not of the same magnitude as Gutenbergs, there are real parallels. Howl and Other Poems was published in the fall of 1956 as number four in the Pocket Poets Series from City Lights Books.
Its victory in a 1957 obscenity trial paved the way for the publication of other controversial literature in the 1950s and '60s. In Howl and Other Poems, Ginsberg creates a spiritual narrative, a book of hymns to praise not the God of the world that has marginalized him and his way of. The paperback, like Howl and Other Poems, was both the product of and the producer of a revolution in literary culture. Written in 1954-'55 and published in Howl and Other Poems (1956), "Howl" became an instant literary sensation and the target of censorship for its graphic language and sexual themes. With affectionate sympathy, the poem ultimately suggests that the "mad" rebels are really the only sane exceptions to the insane culture of 20th-century America. Dedicated to Ginsberg's friend Carl Solomon, who had been confined to a psychiatric institution, the poem is a lament for "the best minds of generation," whom it portrays as having been "destroyed by madness." But it's also a tribute to rebellious artists, thinkers, and hipsters and an attack on the oppressiveness of western society, something it depicts as crushingly conformist, greedy, and violent.
Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1956) is the best-known poem produced by the literary movement called the Beat Generation-not to mention one of the most controversial and influential poems of the 20th century.
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