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I like “A Supermarket in California”

Judge Clayton W. Horn’s verdict in The People of the State of California v. Lawrence Ferlinghetti made Howl a First Amendment case study: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Pe...

Ginsberg is a poet of context. The Six Gallery reading of October 7, 1955 furthered “beat,” attributed to Herbert Huncke in 1945, making it a kind of post A-Bomb movement. On June 3, 1957, plainclothes police had the misfortune of arresting Shigeyoshi Murao for selling a copy of the book. The best press for book is press outside the book review.

A national vision like Whitman. An international vision like Jesus. Future work would come back to the ground zero of family.

Very difficult and boring..

"The weight of the world is love, Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction/ the weight, the weight we carry is love"

from a conservative pov, i love reading books or poems that remind me that we should always be open to studying and learning about opposing views to have a truer understanding of the world and our society. i think more people should be understanding the criticisms and concerns that go along with being a human being in all factions of our life, and ginsbergs passion for anti-industrial capitalism is thought-provoking