Judge Horn agreed with their argument that Howl was protected under the First Amendment. I had planned to live a quiet life of reading, listening to music and playing chess the rest of my life. Yet here I was involved in a case for selling obscenity.
Previous Chapter Next Chapter. Copyright information here. The trials publicity brought the San Francisco Beat Movement into the national spotlight and inspired many would-be poets and seekers to make their way out to the West Coast. Howl is a poem that embodied the state of America and of the individual as Ginsberg saw it. It is divided into three sections. The first has been described as a sometimes hysterical lament about the political and cultural conservatism that has destroyed the best minds of the poet's generation.
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Needle Points. Join Us! Please enter a valid email. Customs Department as it entered the country from its English printer. Nine literary experts were called as witnesses to speak out for the artistry of the poem.
The case, The People of the State of California vs.
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