Howl on Trial by Morgan Bill;

Author:Morgan, Bill; [Morgan, Bill;]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780872864795
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Published: 2020-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Henry Rago, editor of “Poetry”(Chicago), will soon publish a defense of “Howl” which reads in part:

There is absolutely no question in my mind or in that of any other poet or critic with whom I have discussed the book that it is a work of the legitimacy and validity contemplated by existing American law … I would be unworthy of the tradition of this magazine … if I did not speak for the right of this book to free circulation, and against this affront not only to Allen Ginsberg and his publishers but to the possibilities of art and poetry in America.

The “Nation’s” poetry editor has written that “censure of such works is ill-considered and justifiable neither morally nor legally.” William Carlos Williams, who wrote the Introduction to “Howl,” said: “I’m amazed that ‘Howl’ has been denied release. Don’t they know that release to the air and sun is the only thing in our lives to which the young can look to keep them virtuous?” Kenneth Patchen wrote that “the really obscene four-letter words are in common use: ‘hate,’ ‘kill,’ ‘maim,’ ‘bomb,’ etc., while other four-letter words such as ‘life’ and ‘poem’ and ‘love’ are considered subversive and obscene, especially if there is ‘the remotest reference to that unclean and only fit to be starved and stoned and blinded and burned alive beast, our Fellowman!” Kenneth Rexroth, on his KPFA program, has regularly castigated the Customs for such seizures, noting that charges of obscenity in “Howl” are “a product of a particularly upside-down system of values.”

Kenneth Patchen wrote that “the really obscene four-letter words are in common use: ‘hate,’ ‘kill,’ ‘maim,’ ‘bomb,’ etc., while other four-letter words such as ‘life’ and ‘poem’ and ‘love’ are considered subversive and obscene …”

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