When Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl was released in 1957, it was a massive hit, and scandal, with its portrayals of youth counterculture so raw and personal it was banned from publication and sale. City Lights - run by poet Ferlinghetti and store manager Shig Murao - published a small run for sale, which is what landed the two men on trial for distribution of “indecent” materials. Murao and Ferlinghetti, the co-founder of the bookstore, fell out in the late ‘70s. Both remained key figures in the Bea