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. The series is most notable for the publication of Allen Ginsberg's literary milestone "Howl", which lead to an obscenity charge for the publishers that was fought off with the aid of the ACLU. Image File history File links This image is a book cover. ... Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919) is a poet who is best known as the co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house, which published early literary works of the Beat Generation, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. ... The City Lights Bookstore, in the North Beach section of San Francisco, is an independent bookstore specializing in poetry. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Allen Ginsberg, far left, at Airport Frankfurt, Germany Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet born in Paterson, New Jersey. ... Howl and Other Poems was published in the fall of 1956 as number four in the Pocket Poets Series from City Lights Books Howl is a poem by Allen Ginsberg that was first performed in 1955 in the Six Gallery in San Francisco. ... Obscenity has several connotations. ... The American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, is a non_governmental organization devoted to defending civil rights and civil liberties in the United States. ...

Initially, the books were small, affordable paperbacks with a distinctive black and white cover design. (This design was borrowed from Kenneth Patchen's An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air (1945), published by Oregon's Untide Press. [1]) The paperbacks were the first introduction for many readers to avant-garde poetry. Many of the poets were members of the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance, but the volumes included a diverse array of poets, including authors translated from Spanish, German, Russian, and Dutch. According to Ferlinghetti, "From the beginning the aim was to publish across the board, avoiding the provincial and the academic...I had in mind rather an international, dissident, insurgent ferment." ^[2] Kenneth Patchen (December 13, 1911–January 8, 1972) was an American poet and painter. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... State nickname: Beaver State Other U.S. States Capital Salem Largest city Portland Governor Ted Kulongoski (D) Official languages None Area 255,026 km² (9th)  - Land 248,849 km²  - Water 6,177 km² (2. ... The term beat generation was introduced by Jack Kerouac in approximately 1948 to describe his social circle to the novelist John Clellon Holmes (who published an early novel about the beat generation, titled Go, in 1952, along with a manifesto of sorts in the New York Times Magazine: This is... The term San Francisco Renaissance is used as a global designation for a range of poetic activity centred around that city and which brought it to prominence as a hub of the American poetic avant-garde. ...

List of books in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series

1. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Pictures of a Gone World, August 1955
2. Kenneth Rexroth (translator), Thirty Spanish Poems of Love and Exile, 1956
3. Kenneth Patchen, Poems of Humor and Protest
4. Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems, 1956
5. Marie Ponsot, True Minds, 1956
6. Denise Levertov, Here and Now, 1957
7. William Carlos Williams, Kora in Hell : Improvisations
8. Gregory Corso, Gasoline/Vestal Lady on Brattle, 1958
9. Jacques Prevert, Paroles
10. Robert Duncan, Selected Poems
11. Jerome Rothenberg (translator), New Young German Poets
12. Nicanor Parra, Anti-Poems
13. Kenneth Patchen, Love Poems, 1960
14. Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and other poems
15. Robert Nichols, Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train
16. Anslem Hollo (translator), Red Cats
17. Malcolm Lowry, Selected Poems, 1962
18. Allen Ginsberg, Reality Sandwiches, 1963
19. Frank O'Hara, Lunch Poems, 1964
20. Philip Lamantia, Selected Poems 1943-1966, 1967
21. Bob Kaufman, Golden Sardine
22. Janine Pommy-Vega, Poems to Fernando, 1968
23. Allen Ginsberg, Planet News, 1968
24. Charles Upton, Panic Grass, 1968
25. Pablo Picasso, Hunk of Skin, 1968
26. Robert Bly, The Teeth-Mother Naked At Last
27. Diane DiPrima, Revolutionary Letters, 1971
28. Jack Kerouac, Scattered Poems, 1971
29. Andrei Voznesensky, Dogalypse
30. Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America
31. Pete Winslow, A Daisy in the Memory of a Shark
32. Harold Norse, Hotel Nirvana
33. Anne Waldman, Fast Speaking Woman
34. Jack Hirschmann, Lyripol
35. Allen Ginsberg, Mind Breaths
36. Stefan Brecht, Poems
37. Peter Orlovsky, Clean Asshole Poems & Smiling Vegetable Songs, 1978
38. Antler, Factory
39. Philip Lamantia, Becoming Visible, 1981
40. Allen Ginsberg, Plutonian Ode 1977-1980, 1982
41. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roman Poems
42. Scott Rollins (editor), Nine Dutch Poets
43. Ernesto Cardenal, From Nicaragua With Love
44. Antonio Porta, Kisses From Another Dream
45. Adam Conford, Animations
46. La Loca, Adventures on the Isle of Adolescence
47. Vladimir Mayakovsky, Listen!
48. Jack Kerouac, Poems all Sizes, 1992
49. Daisy Zamora, Riverbed of Memory
50. Rosario Murillo, Angel in the Deluge
51. Jack Kerouac, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
52. Alberto Blanco, Dawn of the Senses
53. Julio Cortazar, Save Twilight: Selected Poems
54. Dino Campana, Orphic Songs
55. Jack Hirschman, Front Lines: Selected Poems

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References

^  Introduction, page i. City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, editor. City Lights Books, 1995. (ISBN 0872863115)