“I SAW THE BEST MINDS OF MY GENERATION DESTROYED BY MADNESS”: INSCRIBED COPY OF GINSBERG’S HOWL
GINSBERG, Allen. Howl and Other Poems. San Francisco: City Lights Bookshop, (1971). Small octavo, black and white paper wraps.
Later printing, inscribed by Ginsberg on the title page, “for Duane Clark–Allen Ginsberg 1979” with his usual “AH” drawn in the “O” of “Howl.”
Howl, published by poet and bookstore owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Bookshop in San Francisco, proved “extraordinarily popular… [with] its outrageous, Whitmanesque title poem a vers-libre anthem for the entire Beatnik revolt…” (Hamilton, 187). First published in 1956. Morgan A3:a1.24. Owner signature.
Small ink notations to one page. Only minor wear to original paper wrappers. A near-fine copy.