Howl

Originally published by City Lights Books in the fall of 1956, and subsequently seized by US Customs and the San Francisco police, Howl was the subject of a long court trial at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene. An ensemble of actors performs Ginsberg’s poem unexpurgated. “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness starving hysterical naked . . .”