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Title Howl on trial : the battle for free expression / edited by Bill Morgan and Nancy J. Peters.

Publication Info. San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2006]
©2006

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  811.54 MORGAN    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  Z811 GINSBERG H    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 224 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents "Howl" at the frontiers / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Allen Ginsberg's Howl : a chronology / Bill Morgan -- Censorship milestones / Nancy J. Peters -- "Howl" / Allen Ginsberg -- The Howl letters / edited by Bill Morgan -- The trial : press response. Iron curtain on the embarcadero / Abe Mellinkoff ; Letters to the San Francisco Chronicle ; Ferlinghetti defends publication ; Orwell's big brother is watching us / William Hogan ; Trade winds / John G. Fuller -- Excerpts from the trial transcript -- From the decision by Judge Clayton M. Horn -- How Captain Hanrahan made Howl a best-seller / David Perlman -- Ginsberg "howls" again (Ginsberg's letter to the San Francisco Chronicle) -- Fifty years of City Lights / Albert M. Bendich -- The censorship battle continues / Bill Morgan.
Subject Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997. Howl.
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 -- Censorship.
Censorship -- United States -- History.
Trials (Obscenity) -- California -- San Francisco.
Added Author Morgan, Bill, 1949-
Peters, Nancy J. (Nancy Joyce)
ISBN 0872864790
9780872864795
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