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October 6th #WickedWhispers Howl @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#HauntedShelf #FrightClub #BookScavengerHunt @PuddleJumper @Jadams89

Visited today. How could I not?

#MayMontage #FaceOnCover playing catch up!😁

But this is all speculation, mediation, nay, emasculation...I find in you a kindred absorption with identity, dramatic meaning, classic unity, and immortality: you pace a stage, yet sit in the boxes and watch. You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishable chaos, in sprawling nameless reality. Like myself, you deserve the Adlerian verdict...He who seeks all knowledge, and then all life and all power...He is egocentric. How paltry is the def.

#BlackAndWhite #CuriousCovers
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

The book was pretty good as I recall , I read it in 2009 . Nobody stuck with Jack for long , bad behavior in the name of freedom can get tired day to day. my dysfunctional book fascinations will always include the beats.( NY Times)

I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
This is day 136
#BooksToRead #TBRPile #TBRMountain

A banned books week post .Lawrence Ferlinghetti in front of City Lights window , his banned book display.Sometime in the 50s .
City Lights published Allen Ginsbergs Howl , which was subjected to an obscenity trial.On October 3,1957 Judge Clayton Horn ruled that the poem was not obscene.I miss City Lights !Another great indie still around & doing mail order .Treasures are on their site especially if you like Beat Generation material.

UNPOPULAR OPINION
Ginsberg really loves his nudity (does he want to be a nudist?!), male genitals, and what I‘m guessing is meant to allude to sex. He comes off as angry and vindictive in places. He seemed to think Walt Whitman was a predator of underaged boys which is just ridiculous. It was hard to tell. Some of this poetry didn‘t even come off as lucid. No thank you. Hard pass for me.
#AllenGinsberg #Howl #Poetry #unpopularopinion

I‘m not sure about this collection yet. The first poem was so confusing and all over the place I didn‘t get past the first page. Forget the other 11 pages. The second poem was very in your face and almost crude in places. This one was interesting, but I‘m not sure why he thought he‘d find Walt Whitman in a grocery store (or glaring at grocery boys). @TheBookHippie
#AllenGinsberg #Howl #Poetry