In 1957, Allen Ginsberg’s poem HOWL was put on trial because “the words and the sense of the writing is obscene.” 500 copies of the book were seized and a landmark obscenity trial followed. Today, over 1 million copies of HOWL have been published and the poem is widely considered a landmark in 20th century literature.
Everyone has a different opinion about what’s obscene. Where do you stand?
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