<p><strong>The landmark, original publication of Allen Ginsberg’s </strong><strong><em>HOWL & Other Poems</em></strong><strong>!</strong></p><p><em>HOWL & Other Poems</em>, the prophetic book that launched the Beat Generation, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Books in 1956. Considered the single most influential work of post-WWII United States poetry, the City Lights edition of <em>HOWL</em> has remained in print for more than 60 years, with well over 1,000,000 copies in print.</p><p> A strident critique of middle-class complacency, consumerism, and capitalist militarism,<em> HOWL</em> also celebrates the pleasures and freedoms of the physical world, including a tribute to homosexual love. In addition to “Howl,” poems in the book include: “A Supermarket in California,” “Sunflower Sutra,” “America,” “In the Baggage Room at Greyhound,” “Transcription of Organ Music,” and