Item #40914 The Poem That Changed America. “Howl” Fifty Years Later. Allen GINSBERG, Jason SHINDER.
The Poem That Changed America. “Howl” Fifty Years Later.
The Poem That Changed America. “Howl” Fifty Years Later.

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The Poem That Changed America. “Howl” Fifty Years Later.

NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. First edition. 8vo. 288pp. + facsimile reproduction of the 1956 mimeograph edition (11pp.) + CD contained in envelope attached to rear endpaper.

Includes contributions from, among others, Vivian Gornick; Amiri Baraka; Marjorie Perloff; Bob Rosenthal; Andrei Codrescu; Rick Moody; Eileen Myles; Gordon Ball; Jane Kramer; John Cage; Marge Piercy; and Anne Waldman, as well as Allen Ginsberg (“I’ve Lived With and Enjoyed ‘Howl’ ”, 5pp.).

The accompanying CD (32.01) contains the first known recording of Allen Ginsberg reciting “Howl”, taped on March 18, 1956, at a public reading at the Town Hall Theatre in Berkeley, California. Ginsberg begins by reading the poem’s dedicatory page, and a note printed on the CD states that “This recording is comprised of tapes from three separate audience members that were mixed into one by Hal Wilner [sic].”

Fine in the faux distressed dustwrapper.

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