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Howl: 50th Anniversary Edition
Howl: 50th Anniversary Edition: Original Draft Facsimile, and Variant Versions Fully Annotated by the Author with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public Reading, Legal Skirmishes, Precursor Texts, and Bibliography | Allen Ginsberg
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AmyG
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Visited today. How could I not?

PaperbackPirate Such a cool historical place! Did you find any books to bring home? 5mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️❤️ 5mo
Ruthiella Of course you had to! 😃 5mo
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jdiehr Yes!! 5mo
AmyG @PaperbackPirate @Ruthiella HA…I didn‘t. I have so many books to read already. 5mo
sarahbarnes 🤩🤩🤩 5mo
KAO I once visited this bookstore in the 1980s to meet Ray Bradbury, who was promoting new editions of some of his books! Stashed somewhere, I have a photo of myself with him! 5mo
AmyG @KAO That is amazing. 5mo
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Andrea313
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🖤📚🤍 3y
Leftcoastzen Love these 3y
Eggs Nicely done 🖤⚪️🖤 3y
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Gina
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Ohhhhh, I like this...

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CaliforniaCay
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I had an excellent birthday yesterday! I conquered one of my biggest fears and drove to San Francisco by myself just to visit the famous City Lights Bookstore.(It's only a 2 hour drive away but a hectic city to drive in!) It has a very fascinating history behind it, but long story short it's famous for publishing Allen Ginsberg's Howl. It was a lot smaller than I was expecting but still cool and worth the trip. I'm happy with my little haul 🤗

NeedsMoreBooks Happy belated birthday! 🎂 5y
Tamra You are my hero! I despise city driving too. Happy Birthday. 🎉 5y
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Bunnyfufu
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Booksnchill
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Happy Independent Bookstore Day!!!!

tournevis Did you see where in the store it says Shakespeare & Co? I'm trying to verify something in the book I'm reading. I know the façade of S & Co says City Lights Books on the left most window already, from memory. 5y
Booksnchill @tournevis so sorry, I just saw this and won‘t be back but I‘ll look at my pictures and see if I caught it 5y
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Blaire
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Had to go with this one for #howl. It was my first introduction to the beat poets when a high school junior read it at a poetry slam I attended. #itwasthe90s #howl #octoberxfiles

Leftcoastzen ❤️❤️❤️❤️👏👏 5y
Robothugs Lovely! 🙌🏻 5y
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GripLitGrl
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CaliforniaCay
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It was about time I gave this teeny tiny little collection a re-read.

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Vegamon
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"i touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the super market and feel absurd"

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mrp27
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#aprilbookshowers

I don't own or read much #poetry but I absolutely had to buy The Howl when I visited City Lights book store as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of City Lights, originally published the poem. Ferlinghetti was faced with jail time for publishing this "obscene" poem until a judge ruled it as a piece of literary work with social merit.

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mrp27
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San Francisco was awesome and I got to check City Lights off of my book store bucket list! 📚📚📚

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8little_paws
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#todayinsj the ACLU decided to defend Howl on obscenity charges, 1955

kspenmoll I am really enjoying your daily picks. 7y
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HannaPolkadots
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#marchintoreading day 23: #favoritelastsentence. So many! But I really love the ending of Howl part I by Allen Ginsberg.

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Joi
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excited about this used bookstore find

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Yournewfriendsams
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All time favorite #poetry. ::the picture is from my wedding, we used an old card catalogue for table assignments and library cards with fake stories about each guest. So much work but totally worth it!::

Chessa 😍😍😍 8y
BookBabe What a neat idea! 8y
LauraBeth ❤️ this! 8y
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mauveandrosysky That's so cool! 8y
Cinfhen What a labor of love ❤️ 8y
LeahBergen That is so amazing! 8y
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MoonChild7
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America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel. - A.G.

LitHousewife I went to one of his readings in Grand Rapids, MI in the early 90s. We'd just studied him in school. It was amazing. 8y
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JPeterson
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Was watching an old episode of Archer, and Howl by Allen Ginsberg. Come to find out, my boyfriend has never heard it before. Cue pausing the episode and listening to Ginsberg read one of my favorite poems.

brendanmleonard It's his birthday! Coincidence? I think not 😄 8y
JPeterson @brendanmleonard It is? Fate has aligned! 8y
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