h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

When I clicked on the link provided, I got the message "Howl by Allen Ginsberg

This poem is not available outside the United States due to rights issues"

Have a look here:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xbeUMn6pi2UC&printsec=frontcover&hl=de#v=onepage&q&f=false

It's not the whole poem, but personally, I gave up after the first two stanzas anyway. I didn't understand a word.

I searched, and all I could find was a recording of Ginsberg reading the poem:

http://www.reed.edu/news_center/multimedia/2007-08/howl_unedited1.28.08.html

I apologise to readers from the UK and Germany.

The Beat Poets were a breed apart, Bel. It's a difficult poem. In terms of its 'obscenity', maybe we should think of the court decision on 'Ulysses', in which the judge essentially said that any 15-year-old boy who could get something out of that book was welcome to it.

I recommend the film 'Howl' - it uses animation and voiceover to make the poem more understandable. The 'Moloch' section is particularly good.