HOWL: Dedication Allen Ginsberg

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To
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poet
Editor, Publisher and Defender of “Howl”
in gratitude for his comradeship over three decades

Missing all our appointments
and turning up unshaven
years later
old cigarette papers
stuck to our pants
leaves in our hair

 

Ginsberg, Allen. Dedication. Howl : Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public Reading, Legal Skirmishes, Precursor Texts and Bibliography. New York, NY: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006. V. Print.

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