Poet Allen Ginsberg blasted the same conventions through his long controversial poem Howl (1956) read out in 1955. The poem and its publisher City Lights bookstore owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti was put to trail after a year. Ginsberg wanted a composition that flouted poetic convention but at the same time socially and politically potent: “I wanted to let loose and say what I really had on my mind. . . break my own forms, break my own ideals, ideas, what I was supposed to be as a poet” (Campbell 170)/ (Halliwell 74). Ginsberg also faced legal charges for obscenity, as a number of writers, critics and educationalists were called to San Francisco trial in summer 1957 to speak for and against the poem. It was only later after getting positive
