![]() ![]() ![]() In the decade and a half after Howl came a tidal wave of hippydom, flower children and ecstatic derangement of the senses, anti-war protests, the burgeoning of rock’n’roll as a form of social rebellion, and other attacks on dominant mores. This is so especially because its publication and subsequent prosecution for obscenity hammered open one of the first cracks in the post-war American edifice of prosperous suburban bliss and (what would later be called) “family values”. It may be hard to imagine, more than half a century later, the shock effect of Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl on the stolidly conservative mainstream American mind of the mid-1950s. ![]()
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