... not by government " -Judge Clayton Horn, San Francisco, 1957 Prolific, provocative, and revealing of its time. A shot rang out and America's counter culture came running. The shot was fired by Allen Ginsberg, a poet and a prophet of his time musing about the ills of society in his poem entitled "Howl." With this culturally shocking composition came a paramount urge to censor it using any ... unable to breathe in the poem as a whole, therefore embodying the very being that the poem was striking out against. According to Professor Edward de Grazia of Cordozo University, "Allen's poem took...

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... these poets had created underground magazines and small presses, which often were the only places to get published. Gary Snyder was one of the original Beat poets, and along with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Alan Watts helped to shape modern poetry and to fuel the cultural revolution of the 1960's. On October 7, 1955 at six gallery in San Francisco Gary Snyder ... celebration of tribal ritual. This was the first public reading by several of the poets, some of whom had not met before. The other poets were Phillip Lamantia, Mike McClure, Allen Ginsberg, Phil Whalen, and Jack Kerouac ...

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