"Ginsberg reigned as the raucous poet of American hippiedom and as a literary pioneer whose freewheeling masterwork,Howl, prevailed against government censorship in a landmark obscenity trial 50 years ago."–New York TimesAllen Ginsberg'sHowl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trail at which a series of poets and professors persua