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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
  1. 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.
Published by
  1. New York : Harper & Row, c1986.
Author
  1. Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997

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Additional authors
  1. Miles, Barry, 1943-
  2. Solomon, Carl, 1928-
  3. Frucht, Arnold
  4. Kennedy, Bari L.
  5. Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection hou
  6. Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe
Description
  1. xiv, 194 p. : ill.; 29 cm.
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 > Friends and associates
  2. Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 > Technique
  3. Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997. > Manuscripts > Facsimiles
  4. Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Genre/Form
  1. Facsimiles
  2. Manuscripts
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. Rev. ed. of: Howl, and other poems, 1956.
  2. Includes index.
  3. "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)
  1. Bibliography: p. 189-190.
Indexed in (note)
  1. Morgan, B.^ Ginsberg
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain