"It's been a consistent seller for us," says Garrett Caples, an editor at City Lights.Īnd it continues to speak to the younger generation in this moment, six decades on. The written work, published in the collection Howl and Other Poems by San Francisco's City Lights, has sold more than 1.2 million copies since its release in 1956. (The label would later issue several LPs by comedian Lenny Bruce.) The 'Howl' obscenity trial. "It was a groundbreaking case that led the way for other kinds of literature and, to a certain extent, recordings being acceptable on the marketplace because they were products of censorship," says Bill Belmont, who produced the original recording for Berkeley's Fantasy Records. Friday sees the re-release by Craft Recordings of Ginsberg reciting the work in a deluxe vinyl box set with new liner notes, a replica of the original Pocket Poets’ edition of "Howl," and other ephemera.īy the time the poem was recorded in 1959, "Howl" had chalked a win for free speech when a California Superior Court judge ruled in favor of the violent, sexually-charged poem in a highly-publicized obscenity trial.
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