![]() ![]() The series gave many readers their first introduction to avant-garde poetry. This design was borrowed from Kenneth Patchen's An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air (1945), published by Untide Press in Oregon. The series is published in a small, affordable paperback format with a distinctive black and white cover design. The series is most notable for the publication of Allen Ginsberg's literary milestone " Howl", which led to an obscenity charge for the publishers that was fought off with the aid of the ACLU. The City Lights Pocket Poets Series is a series of poetry collections published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Books of San Francisco since August 1955. ![]() ![]() Howl and Other Poems was published in the fall of 1956 as number four in the Pocket Poets Series from City Lights Books ![]()
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