HOWL

Alan Ginsberg. Pocket Poets Series Number 4. Twentieth printing. Softcover. Very Good+ San Francisco: City Light Books, 1968. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. No writing or markings in the book, 44 pp.  

Ginsberg's poem defined a generation and an undisputed cornerstone of beat poetry. Howl is perhaps the most important poem from the beat era in the 1950's. Dedicated to Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassidy. 

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angle headed hipsters, burning for the ancient heavy connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night..." --Allen Ginsberg, "Howl" (excerpt).