Poem That Changed America
Howl Fifty Years Later
$35.61
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
17 July 2006
Summary
A tribute to Ginsberg’s signature work, which stirred a generation of angel-headed hipsters to cultural rebellion.
In 1956, City Lights, a small San Francisco bookstore, published Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems with its trademark black-and-white cover. The original edition cost seventy-five cents, but there was something priceless about its eponymous piece. Although it gave a voice to the new generation that came of age in the conservative years following World …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780374173449 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0374173443 |
| Author: | Jason Shinder |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 17 July 2006 |
| Weight: | 305g |
| Dimensions: | 135mm x 216mm |
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Jason Shinder
Jason Shinder (1955-2008) was the author of three poetry collections: Stupid Hope, Among Women, and Every Room We Ever Slept In. He also edited numerous anthologies, including The Poem that Changed America and The Poem I Turn To. Shinder earned a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and founded the YMCA National Writer’s Voice.
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