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The Reception of "Howl": Timeline

I saw the best minds of my generation of my generation destroyed by madness,
starving, hysterical naked,

dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking
for an angry fix,

angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection
to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, . . .

06/1953
Lawrence Ferlenghetti begins City Lights Bookshop and City Lights Books.
 
     
10/1954 Six artists, intent on experimenting with combining mediums, found the Six Gallery.  
     
1954 Allen Ginsberg moves to San Francisco.  
     
11/54 Ginsberg begins talking with a psychiatrist  
     
10/13/1955 Allen Ginsberg first reads "Howl" in public at the Six Gallery  
1956
City Lights publishes Howl and Other Poems.
     
1957

U.S. Customs agents seize Howl and Other Poems.

Ferlenghetti arrested for, tried, and found innocent of selling "obscene' material (Howl).

 
     

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