Publication History
Lawrence Ferlinghetti offered to publish "Howl" through City Lights soon after hearing Ginsberg perform it at the Six Gallery Reading. Ferlinghetti was so impressed, he sent a note to Ginsberg, referencing Ralph Waldo Emerson's response to Leaves of Grass:"I greet you at the beginning of a great career. When do I get the manuscript?" Originally, Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti assumed "Howl" would be long enough to take up the entire book, but they later decided to add some similar poems Ginsberg had completed around that timll & Graf Publishers, 2003. ISBN 0-7867-1099-3. pg. 242
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