{"product_id":"howl-allen-ginsberg-penguin-classics","title":"Howl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePENGUIN CLASSICS · TWENTIETH-CENTURY CLASSICS · Hardback\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn October 1955, at the Six Gallery in San Francisco, Allen Ginsberg read a long and unruly new poem aloud for the first time. Within a year it had been published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights, seized by customs officials, and put on trial for obscenity. The court found it carried redeeming social importance. \u003cem\u003eHowl\u003c\/em\u003e has not been out of print since.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Penguin Classics hardback draws on fifty years of Ginsberg's experimental, ground-breaking verse — a selection the poet himself described as gathering the most honest and most penetrating of his writing. Alongside \u003cem\u003eHowl\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eKaddish\u003c\/em\u003e, the long elegy for his mother Naomi, it collects important early work, songs, uncollected poems and notes from the author that reach past the Beat Generation icon he became.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is both a landmark of post-war American literature and an unusually intimate self-portrait: incantatory, furious at what conformity and consumerism do to people, and entirely unembarrassed about tenderness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo one has made his poetry speak for the whole man, without inhibition of any kind, more than Ginsberg — \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAllen Ginsberg\u003c\/strong\u003e (1926–1997) was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of the lyric poet Louis Ginsberg and of Naomi Ginsberg. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, received the medal of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Minister of Culture, won the National Book Award for \u003cem\u003eThe Fall of America\u003c\/em\u003e, and co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eEdition details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePenguin Classics hardback, 528 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwentieth-Century Classics series\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCover design by Coralie Bickford-Smith\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished 30 July 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics (Penguin Random House)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52466071437528,"sku":"9780241794050","price":799.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0818\/1471\/6632\/files\/9780241794050-jacket-large.jpg?v=1789484167","url":"https:\/\/www.readersparadise.co\/products\/howl-allen-ginsberg-penguin-classics","provider":"Readers Paradise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}