... come to his defense if he needed (Tytell 1976). He indeed "needed". On May 21, 1957 two officers went into City Lights Bookstore to buy a copy of "Howl and Other Poems". The store manager, Shigeyoshi Murao, sold it to them. Ferlinghetti and Murao were promptly arrested. The criminal charge brought against Ferlinghetti was "willfully printing and selling lewd and indecent material ... detached lines and the defense continued to analyze the merits of the poem in its entirety, It was a failed attempt for McIntosh to wager his meager little apples against the epic orange that was "Howl." Ju...

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