dice.camp is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A Mastodon server for RPG folks to hang out and talk. Not owned by a billionaire.

Administered by:

Server stats:

1.7K
active users

#howl

0 posts0 participants0 posts today

Today in Labor History March 25, 1957: U.S. Customs seized copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and City Lights manager, Shigeyoshi Murao, were arrested on obscenity charges for publishing and distributing the poem. Howl was inspired, in part, by a terrifying peyote vision Ginsberg had in which the façade of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, in San Francisco, appeared as the monstrous face of a child-eating demon. The obscenity charges stemmed from homophobic responses to his explicit references to homosexuality. Ginsberg’s first experience with LSD, as well as Kerouac’s and Burroughs’s, was with acid provided by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson, one-time husband of and long-time collaborator with Margaret Mead. You can read more about Bateson and Mead’s early experimentation with, and promotion of, psychedelics (and their collaboration with the CIA) in the recent book, “Tripping on Utopia.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #poetry #howl #lgbtq #allenginsburg #homophobia #lawrenceferlinghetti #citylights #obscenity #censorship #bannedbooks #kerouac #williamburoughs #lsd #peyote #margaretmead #gregorybateson #psycheldelics #books #writer #author #poet @bookstadon

Harlem whose leaf Is social drift Or clairvoyante! Jesus whose sphinx operates ten But fingers! Son whose abuse sings either ashcan by tons! Queen whose seventytwo does all rock across necessity shade! Mount whose cemetery presupposes the CCNY!

face out him around abuse When them’re sun’s at they am

Battery! lost! Ten! trail! platonic and arid rules! armies whispering unless That standards! Minds lightning As it’s! Adonis shorts Nothing UP every onions!

WHAT stumbled or had distributed above this busted archangel, each flowers, tyrants without Wind or Alexandria someone,

whom told If successively Atlantic Zen American listening Another lamentation of intelligent “Well screams Out Jesus China Summer,

WHAT borrowed before these streaming before either fingers under assurance But those twentyfive among awful myths And notices admitting Your Tiresias enough To Shakesperian bear What Shall,

This week on Memory Muses:
Marlon Brando & Sascheen Littlefeather, the film Tommy, and Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl and the obscenity trial around it.

Memory Muses is my weekly arts almanac, with a Word of the Week, & a poem or two, all in about five minutes. Members of my Patreon can hear this week's now at patreon.com/wkeithtims

You can hear back episodes for free on your favorite podcatcher!
pod.link/1736165245

Today in Labor History March 25, 1957: U.S. Customs seized copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and City Lights manager, Shigeyoshi Murao, were arrested on obscenity charges for publishing and distributing the poem. Howl was inspired, in part, by a terrifying peyote vision Ginsberg had in which the façade of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, in San Francisco, appeared as the monstrous face of a child-eating demon. The obscenity charges stemmed from homophobic responses to his explicit references to homosexuality. Ginsberg’s first experience with LSD, as well as Kerouac’s and Burroughs’s, was with acid provided by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson, one-time husband of and long-time collaborator with Margaret Mead.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #poetry #howl #lgbtq #allenginsburg #homophobia #lawrenceferlinghetti #citylights #obscenity #censorship #bannedbooks #kerouac #williamburoughs #lsd #peyote #margaretmead #gregorybateson @bookstadon