Allen Ginsberg

Eric Drooker

Now a Major Motion Picture! First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's Howl is a prophetic masterpiece—an epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obscenity charges to become one of the most widely read poems of the century.

Howl: A Graphic Novel

Peter Kuper

An Illustrated Chronicle of Three Decades in New York City

Drawn to New York

Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, and broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. The apocalyptic 'Howl', originally written as a performance piece, became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956. It is considered to be one of the defining works of the Beat Generation, standing alongside that of Burroughs, Kerouac, and Corso. In it, Ginsberg attacks what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States at the time, and takes on issues of sex, drugs and race, simultaneously creating what would become the poetic anthem for US counterculture.

A Graphic Novel

Howl

Follows a young woman forced to flee from the soldiers who have invaded her forested island home and killed her people, to her arrival on a urban island, where she witnesses similar abuses.

A Silent Ballad

Blood Song

Disguised as a book of innocent postcards, Slingshot is a dangerous collection of Eric Drooker¿s most notorious posters. Plastered on brick walls from New York to Berlin, tattooed on bodies from Kansas to Mexico City, Drooker¿s graphics continue to infiltrate and inflame the body politic. Drooker is the author of two graphic novels, Flood! A Novel in Pictures (winner of the American Book Award), and Blood Song: A Silent Ballad. He collaborated with Beat poet Allen Ginsberg on the underground classic, Illuminated Poems. His provocative art has appeared on countless posters, book and CD covers, and his hard-edged graphics are a familiar sight on street corners throughout the world. Eric Drooker is a third generation New Yorker, born and raised on Manhattan Island. His paintings are frequently seen on covers of The New Yorker magazine, and hang in various art collections throughout the U.S. and Europe.

32 Postcards

Slingshot

A Novel in Pictures

Flood!

" Où sommes-nous ? En Asie du Sud-Est ? Et quand ? Peut-être à une époque idyllique, lorsque les villageois prenaient seulement ce dont ils avaient besoin, laissant leur environnement tel qu'ils l'avaient trouvé. Les images de Drooker évoquent des situations bien plus universelles que particulières. Elles ne se contentent pas de raconter l'histoire d'un ou deux lieux donnés, mais celle d'un combat entre forces vitales et forces destructrices qui fait rage où que vivent les gens sur notre planète. "

Eric Drooker

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