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Howl : original draft facsimile, transcript & variant versions, fully annotated by author, with contemporaneous correspondence, account of first public reading, legal skirmishes, precursor texts & bibliography / Allen Ginsberg ; edited by Barry Miles.

Title
Howl : original draft facsimile, transcript & variant versions, fully annotated by author, with contemporaneous correspondence, account of first public reading, legal skirmishes, precursor texts & bibliography / Allen Ginsberg ; edited by Barry Miles.
Author
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Publication
New York : Harper & Row, c1986.

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Additional Authors
  • Miles, Barry, 1943-
  • Solomon, Carl, 1928-
  • Frucht, Arnold
  • Kennedy, Bari L.
  • Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection hou
  • Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe
Description
xiv, 194 p. : ill.; 29 cm.
Summary
This annotated version of Ginsberg's classic is the poet's own re-creation of the revolutionary work's composition process, along with anecdotes and an intimate look at the poet's writing techniques.
Subject
  • Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 > Friends and associates
  • Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 > Technique
  • Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997. > Manuscripts > Facsimiles
  • Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Genre/Form
  • Facsimiles
  • Manuscripts
Note
  • Rev. ed. of: Howl, and other poems, 1956.
  • Includes index.
  • "Of the first edition of Howl two hundred and fifty copies have been specially bound and slipcased. Each copy is signed by the author and numbered"--Colophon.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 189-190.
Indexed In (note)
  • Morgan, B.^ Ginsberg
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Author's preface: reader's guide -- A note on the manuscript / by Barry Miles -- HOWL: final text, 1986 -- HOWL: for Carl Solomon -- Original drafts: selected facsimiles and transcripts -- Carl Solomon speaks -- Author's annotations -- Appendixes: Appendix I: Contemporaneous correspondence & poetic reactions -- Appendix II: First reading at the Six Gallery, October 7, 1955 announcement postcard, 1955 -- Appendix III: Legal history of HOWL -- Appendix IV: Model texts: inspirations precursor to HOWL -- Appendix V: Bibliography of HOWL / by Bill Morgan.
ISBN
0060156287
LCCN
^^^86045105^//r87
OCLC
  • 13667143
  • SCSB-10895960
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library