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Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg - Bog - City Lights Books - Plusbog.dk

The landmark, original publication of Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL & Other Poems ! HOWL & Other Poems , the prophetic book that launched the Beat Generation, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Books in 1956. Considered the single most influential work of post-WWII United States poetry, the City Lights edition of HOWL has remained in print for more than 60 years, with well over 1,000,000 copies in print. A strident critique of middle-class complacency, consumerism, and capitalist militarism, HOWL also celebrates the pleasures and freedoms of the physical world, including a tribute to homosexual love. In addition to “Howl,” poems in the book include: “A Supermarket in California,” “Sunflower Sutra,” “America,” “In the Baggage Room at Greyhound,” “Transcription of Organ Music,” and “Wild Orphan,” among others. A History of HOWL : City Lights founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti first heard Allen Ginsberg read “Howl” at the Six Gallery event in San Francisco, 1955, which featured writers Philip Lamantia, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Michael McClure, introduced by poet Kenneth Rexroth. Jack Kerouac was present, but did not read, encouraging and cheering the other poets on. Ferlinghetti was so impressed by Ginsberg’s performance, he immediately telegrammed him, referencing Ralph Waldo Emerson’s response to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass , “I greet you at the beginning of a great career. When do I get the manuscript?” When the first edition of HOWL arrived from its British printers, it was seized almost immediately by U.S. Customs, and shortly thereafter the San Francisco police arrested its publisher and editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, together with the City Lights Bookstore manager, Shigeyoshi Murao. The two were charged with disseminating obscene literature, and the case was sent to trial. Ferlinghetti partnered with the ACLU to launch a defense of HOWL , and a parade of distinguished literary and academic witnesses appeared in court to persuade the judge of its merits. In the end, famously conservative Judge Clayton Horn ruled that the poem was not obscene, but rather, as he stated emphatically, HOWL was a work of “redeeming social significance.” The landmark decision signaled a sea change in American culture, and the City Lights edition of HOWL became a vital cornerstone in the ongoing struggle for free expression and representation. It continues to attract generation after generation of readers. “It is the poet, Allen Ginsberg, who has gone, in his own body, through the horrifying experiences described from life in these pages.”— William Carlos Williams “Ginsberg is both tragic and dynamic, a lyrical genius . . . probably the single greatest influence on American poetical voice since Whitman.”— Bob Dylan “Not only did he give us love and poetry, he reminded us of our civic duty to use our voice.”— Patti Smith “ Howl was Allen''s metamorphosis from quiet, brilliant, burning bohemian scholar trapped by his flames and repressions to epic vocal bard.”— Michael McClure

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Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg - Bog - City Lights Books - Plusbog.dk

The prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1965 is here presented in a commemorative hardcover edition! The landmark, original publication of Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL & Other Poems ! HOWL & Other Poems , the prophetic book that launched the Beat Generation, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Books in 1956. Considered the single most influential work of post-WWII United States poetry, the City Lights edition of HOWL has remained in print for more than 60 years, with well over 1,000,000 copies in print. A strident critique of middle-class complacency, consumerism, and capitalist militarism, HOWL also celebrates the pleasures and freedoms of the physical world, including a tribute to homosexual love. In addition to “Howl,” poems in the book include: “A Supermarket in California,” “Sunflower Sutra,” “America,” “In the Baggage Room at Greyhound,” “Transcription of Organ Music,” and “Wild Orphan,” among others. A History of HOWL : City Lights founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti first heard Allen Ginsberg read “Howl” at the Six Gallery event in San Francisco, 1955, which featured writers Philip Lamantia, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Michael McClure, introduced by poet Kenneth Rexroth. Jack Kerouac was present, but did not read, encouraging and cheering the other poets on. Ferlinghetti was so impressed by Ginsberg’s performance, he immediately telegrammed him, referencing Ralph Waldo Emerson’s response to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass , “I greet you at the beginning of a great career. When do I get the manuscript?” When the first edition of HOWL arrived from its British printers, it was seized almost immediately by U.S. Customs, and shortly thereafter the San Francisco police arrested its publisher and editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, together with the City Lights Bookstore manager, Shigeyoshi Murao. The two were charged with disseminating obscene literature, and the case was sent to trial. Ferlinghetti partnered with the ACLU to launch a defense of HOWL , and a parade of distinguished literary and academic witnesses appeared in court to persuade the judge of its merits. In the end, famously conservative Judge Clayton Horn ruled that the poem was not obscene, but rather, as he stated emphatically, HOWL was a work of “redeeming social significance.” The landmark decision signaled a sea change in American culture, and the City Lights edition of HOWL became a vital cornerstone in the ongoing struggle for free expression and representation. It continues to attract generation after generation of readers. “It is the poet, Allen Ginsberg, who has gone, in his own body, through the horrifying experiences described from life in these pages.”— William Carlos Williams “Ginsberg is both tragic and dynamic, a lyrical genius . . . probably the single greatest influence on American poetical voice since Whitman.”— Bob Dylan “Not only did he give us love and poetry, he reminded us of our civic duty to use our voice.”— Patti Smith “ Howl was Allen''s metamorphosis from quiet, brilliant, burning bohemian scholar trapped by his flames and repressions to epic vocal bard.”— Michael McClure

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Save Twilight: Selected Poems - Julio Cortazar - Bog - City Lights Books - Plusbog.dk

Newly expanded edition of a classic: the first and only collection of Cortázar''s poetry to appear in English. "Cortázar''s verse is more traditional than his fiction, but his style and themes are in harmony across genres: eccentric, mystical, full of animals but deeply human. Cortázar is a people''s poet, accessible from every angle, and his position as a titan of the Latin American boom is indisputable."— Publishers Weekly , starred review "[This new] edition—small and irresistible, the kind you want to pocket and read out on the grass somewhere—is bilingual, with Spanish on the left page and English on the right, and [Stephen] Kessler does us the favor of retaining some of Cortázar''s weird, wandering little essays, including "For Listening Through Headphones," his oblique study of poetic intimacy."— The New Yorker World renowned as one of the masters of modern fiction, Julio Cortázar was also a prolific poet. While living in Paris during the last months of his life, Cortázar assembled his life''s work in verse for publication, and Save Twilight selects the best of that volume, making his poems available in English for the very first time. This expanded edition, with nearly one hundred new pages of poems, prose and illustrations, is a book to be savored by both the familiar reader and the newcomer to Cortázar work. Ranging from the intimate to the political, tenderness to anger, heartbreak to awe, in styles both traditionally formal and free, Cortázar the poet and subverter of genres is revealed as a versatile and passionate virtuoso. More than a collection of poems, this book is a playful and revealing self-portrait of a writer in love with language in all its forms. Praise for Save Twilight : "With this expanded edition of Save Twilight , Stephen Kessler continues his project, begun in the 1980s, of translating poetry by Julio Cortázar. Widely known for his fiction, especially Hopscotch, a seminal work of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar was also a compelling poet. Kessler has found just the right turns of phrase in English to capture the Argentine''s deeply moving writing and exceptionally emotive language. What a gift this collection is for English-speaking readers."— Edith Grossman , winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation "Some people run the world, others are the world. Cortázar''s poems are the world; they have a special consideration for the unknown."— Enrique Vila-Matas , author of The Illogic of Kassel "What a pleasure, this walk in a well-orchestrated park with shades as complex, as light & as dark, as multifoliate as the actual world! This book—the ''poetic ecology'' Cortázar had envisioned—is an open invitation to make yourselves at home twixt sea and loss, wine & sorrow, birth & riptide, tobacco & talk, laughter & death. Nothing human is foreign to the poet—& he brings it home with great clarity & grace. The writing & the book embody a tradition of hospitality, or as Cortázar puts it: ''Hello little black book for the late hours, cats on the prowl under a paper moon.'' The injunction to save twilight stands as title—it is also exactly what the writing accomplishes. Stephen Kessler''s elegant, accurate, and sometimes felicitously osé translations do these poems more than justice."— Pierre Joris , author of Barzakh (Poems 2000-2012) "For those who have enjoyed Cortázar''s fiction, among the most seminal and compelling of our time, here now are his wonderful poems. And for those who don''t know Cortázar from a cat, it''s a chance to visit his crepuscular world in all its multiple layers. A tender, experimental, humorous, meditative, jazzy, heart-breaking collection to be relished and savored slowly."— Ariel Dorfman , author of Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile

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Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg - Bog - City Lights Books - Plusbog.dk

Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg - Bog - City Lights Books - Plusbog.dk

Save Twilight: Selected Poems - Julio Cortazar - Bog - City Lights Books - Plusbog.dk

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