Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence

First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg’s Howl is a prophetic masterpiece, an epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials & obscenity charges to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. This annotated version of Ginsberg’s classic is the poet’s own recreation of the revolutionary work’s composition process as well as a treasure trove of anecdotes, an intimate look at the poet’s writing techniques & a veritable social history of the 1950s.