Constitutional Law
Jan. 19, 2007
Howling at Censorship
FORUM COLUMN - By Elaine Elinson - Fifty years after Allen Ginsberg's book "Howl" was seized by police, the risk of censorship for books and magazines remains high, says a civil libertarian.
By Elaine Elinson
Last month, at a ceremony in San Francisco, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti was presented by France with one its highest literary honors, the Commandeur des Arts et Lettres. The citation came 50 years after the San Francisco Police Department presented Ferlinghetti with a citation of its own - an arrest warrant for selling Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" at his North Beach...
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