Jack Kerouac with Wm. Burroughs’ cat in garden Villa Muniria. Jack had place upstairs from Bill 2 flights, French windows with spacious red-tiled veranda overlooking Tangier Bay and Gibraltar distant, rent 40$ a month or less. 1957., Allen Ginsberg, 1957, printed 1991

Allen GinsbergStany Zjednoczone, 1926–1997

Jack Kerouac with Wm. Burroughs’ cat in garden Villa Muniria. Jack had place upstairs from Bill 2 flights, French windows with spacious red-tiled veranda overlooking Tangier Bay and Gibraltar distant, rent 40$ a month or less. 1957.

1957, printed 1991 · Photograph

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Jack Kerouac is pictured with William Burroughs's cat in Allen Ginsberg's 1957 photograph from Villa Muniria's garden in Tangier. Its 1991 print is in Washington's National Gallery of Art. Kerouac rented rooms two flights above Burroughs for no more than forty dollars a month. French windows opened onto a broad red-tiled veranda overlooking the bay, with Gibraltar visible in the distance.

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Z życia: Allen Ginsberg

Cały życiorys

1955
Leaves his job to devote himself to poetry
On a psychiatrist’s advice he dropped out of the working world to devote his whole life to poetry; soon after he began the first of many drafts of “Howl”, which he published the following year.
1955
First public reading of “Howl” at the Six Gallery
On 7 October 1955 the painter Wally Hedrick, co-founder of the Six Gallery, asked Ginsberg to organise a poetry reading; after rereading his draft of “Howl”, Ginsberg agreed and advertised the evening as “Six Poets at the Six Gallery”. It included the first public presentation of “Howl”, the poem that brought him worldwide fame.
1956
“Howl and Other Poems” published by City Lights
The book came out from San Francisco’s City Lights Bookstore; in the mid-1950s no reputable publisher would even consider “Howl”, whose frank language some saw as vulgar or even pornographic and open to prosecution.
1956
His mother, Naomi Ginsberg, dies
The years of her life, 1894–1956, appear in the title of the poem “Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg”; her illness brought paranoid delusions and many suicide attempts, and her letters are woven into the poem.
1956
Police and Customs seize “Howl”
In 1956 San Francisco police and US Customs seized copies of the book; the City Lights manager Shig Murao was jailed for selling it and remained Ginsberg’s lifelong friend.
1957
The “Howl” obscenity trial
The 1957 trial drew widespread publicity: Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that the poem was not obscene, asking whether there would be any freedom of press or speech if vocabulary had to be reduced to vapid, innocuous euphemisms. The ruling, which found “redeeming social importance” in the poem, set an important legal precedent.