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| | How 'Howl' won the day (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" is perhaps the iconic poem of the past half century, but from the moment it was first published 50 years ago, it seems to have really upset some people. |
 | | "Howl on Trial," however, documents the trial using original sources, from Ginsberg's and others' letters -- Ginsberg was wandering virtually penniless in Europe during all the hoopla -- to the trial transcripts, photos and media coverage of the time. |
 | | Maybe the howls against "Howl" were to be expected; "Howl is an affirmation of God, sex, drugs, absurdity etc," Ginsberg wrote to a critic in one of the many illuminating letters printed here. |
| www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/05/RVGPGLVUOO1.DTL&type=books (963 words) |
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