Description: Jack Kerouac's Personal Copy includes ink and blind stamp from Estate. Shig's Review 2 is a rare Beat-era underground literary review edited by Shigeyoshi Murao, a key figure at City Lights Books in San Francisco. Murao gained notoriety in 1957 when he was arrested for selling copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" at the bookstore, leading to a landmark First Amendment case that ruled "Howl" was not obscene and protected under free speech. This ruling was pivotal for freedom of expression in literature and helped establish City Lights as a significant publisher of countercultural works.Contributors to Shig's Review 2 included notable writers such as Daniel Moore, Vincent McHugh, Sadie Monsanto, John Saccaro, Ralph Costa, Melville Abbett, Louis Embree, and Morton Grinker. Notably, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the owner of City Lights Books, contributed poems under a pseudonym in both issues #1 and #2.
Price: 625 USD
Location: Los Angeles, California
End Time: 2024-10-09T21:19:21.000Z
Shipping Cost: 5.38 USD
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Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Alder Press
Topic: Poetry
Subject: Poetry
