Mises Wire
Author:
Michael Rectenwald
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In January 1956, the iconoclastic leftist American poet Allen Ginsberg wrote “ America ,” a prose poem that laments the state of the country and the poet’s place in it. “America” was included in the short poetry collection entitled Howl , published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Publishers in November of the same year. In 1957, Howl became