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  <title><![CDATA[Howl: Original Draft Facsimile]]></title>
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  <default_description>Published in 1956 as the title poem of Allen Ginsberg's 1st collection, &quot;Howl&quot; is a prophetic masterpiece that overcame censorship trails to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. The annotated &lt;I&gt;Howl&lt;/I&gt; is the poet's own recreation of the long process of composition of a revolutionary poem that broke new ground in America poetry thru its expansive poetic form, tonal range &amp; freshness of spirit.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1956</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Allen Ginsberg]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 04 09:26:08 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 04 09:30:24 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this poem-it changed so much for me, it showed me the possibilities of writing. what it could be. ITs about a friend of Ginsbergs, who was put in a mental institution, and Ginsberg is writng about how society itself has gone mad, how everyone is crazy, the passion of that insanity, the search...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23684271">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[He went through more than 20 drafts of 'Howl'.<br/><br/>Wow. That's amazing, right?<br/><br/>I understand it though. And allowing a look at the drafts (similar to Ariel by Sylvia Plath)... man.<br/><br/>So I'm not really reviewing this book as best I can, because damn it, its good, you should ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47717616">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 19 10:45:38 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Annotated is best.  Learning from the annotations itself could take weeks.  But if you've ever woke up half naked next to a railroad track in Athens, OH, or to a billy club knocking you off a bench in Hell's Kitchen; if you ever seen the color of music, loved the woblies, or like poetry, this is for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46870318">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was actually first introduced to this poem by a sit-com that no one other than I and the actors have ever heard of:  Brooklyn Bridge.  The aunt (played by Carol Kane) was a beatnik who loved to quote Ginsberg.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Nov 22 16:56:02 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jim Morrison meets 'A Beautiful Mind.'  I'd rather watch Russel Crowe as a genius/mad math professor getting electric shock therapy than read Ginsberg's overbearing encomium to Carl Solomon and his electric shock therapy.  I think I appreciated Kerouac's take on the beat generation more when I happe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38410039">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A truly beautiful piece of writing. I highly recommend you read it aloud to get the full impact.]]></body>
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    <review id="47343679">
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    <body><![CDATA[Words cannot describe this poem... but it is on my top ten list]]></body>
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    <review id="42254626">
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    <body><![CDATA[A great chance to look at the creation of a classic.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love howling!!!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A high three...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though Howl was not one of my favourites, I picked this book up because it is a combination of the original typed manuscript (including penned corrections, changes etc) and the full poem. <br/><br/>It was worth it for the glimpse into the creative process from which arose the monstrous rambling mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/932619">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29294474">
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A I love Allen. This book is a MUST for Allen lovers and Ginsy scholars. I have seen a lot of this already (the first reading, legal skirmishes), but still interesting to see in this context. You see all of the drafts, with the changes (He originally had &quot;starving mystical naked&quot; instead o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29294474">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34470410">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[..,\.&quot;who stood before you speechless &amp; intelligent and shaking with shame<br/>who were yourselves, your own souls' confessions,<br/>your miseries incarnate in madman and bum  &amp; angel <br/>preaching neither acceptance nor rejection<br/>neither man nor god,<br/>reality or imagination......]]></body>
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    <review id="13633719">
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    <body><![CDATA[You know, i talk a lot of smack on The Beats &amp; i'm generally dismissive about their movement.  That's really snobbish of me.  I hope i can study it with an open mind.  Just cause they're beatnik hipsters with too much groove doesn't mean i might not like a couple lines...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read it!<br/><br/>(From the liner)<br/>First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's Howl is a prophetic masterpiece-an epicraging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obscenity charges to become one of the most widely read poemsof the century.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this is out of print now, but you can find versions of it online at used booksellers.  I got mine at Amazon. Inside you will find all the drafts of Allen Ginsberg's Howl.  It's truly amazing to see it come together. A real work of genius.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mind-blowing words.<br/>I have read this poem and reread it thousands of time. I love to share it will people and discuss interpretations and points of view. This is an absolutely brilliant poem. ]]></body>
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    <review id="1695457">
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    <body><![CDATA[I've come in contact with some of the poems in the book HOWL, but I think I'm ready to read the whole thing. If you want to pick it up, beware, it was written in a violent era. (so to speak)]]></body>
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