Allen Ginsberg's Howl

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:poetry
gptkbp:adaptation gptkb:Howl_(2010_film)
gptkbp:author gptkb:Allen_Ginsberg
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:coverArtist gptkb:Roy_Kuhlman
gptkbp:dedicatedTo gptkb:Carl_Solomon
gptkbp:firstBook October 7, 1955
gptkbp:firstReadingLocation gptkb:Six_Gallery,_San_Francisco
gptkbp:genre Modernist poetry
Beat poetry
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Allen Ginsberg's Howl
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Beat_Generation
American poetry
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Jack_Kerouac
gptkb:Walt_Whitman
gptkb:William_Blake
gptkb:Neal_Cassady
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:legalIssue gptkb:Howl_obscenity_trial
gptkbp:legalOutcome ruled not obscene
gptkbp:notableFor obscenity trial
Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars!
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz
gptkbp:openingLine I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Howl_and_Other_Poems
gptkbp:publicationYear 1956
gptkbp:publisher gptkb:City_Lights_Books
gptkbp:structure three sections and a footnote
gptkbp:subject gptkb:spirituality
sexuality
counterculture
mental illness
industrial society
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Moloch
gptkb:Lawrence_Ferlinghetti
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6