Howl still sells

Craig Morgan Teicher at the Publishers Weekly blog has news for the poetry sales poor-mouthers:

Who says people don’t read poetry? Certainly not the best minds of any generation. Allen Ginsbeg’s seminal book Howl and other Poems is still selling like crazy–about 25,000 copies per year, with over a million printed since the book’s first publication in 1956, according to the Washington Post . .