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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