![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The poem is an outcry of anguish against all that Ginsberg felt was unjust, repressive, and harmful to the individual in American society: consumerism, mechanization, and intellectual conformity. In 1957, the poem became the target of a landmark obscenity trial. "Howl" was published in the 1956 collection Howl, and Other Poems. They rebelled against conventional post- World War II morality, materialism, consumerism, and war, and embraced spontaneous expression, sexual freedom, alternative lifestyles, spiritual search, and experimentation with drugs. The Beats were a group of American writers who came to prominence in the mid-1950s and early 1960s. Ginsberg's passionate performance of the poem established him as an important figure in the antiestablishment Beat movement. Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" was first introduced to the public at a poetry reading on Octo(some sources say October 7), at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. ![]()
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