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Mind breaths : poems, 1972-1976 / by Allen Ginsberg.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PS3513.I74 M5 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
- Series:
- Pocket poets series ; 35.
- Pocket poets series ; 35
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Lask Poetry Collection.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lask, Thomas (donor) (RBC copies)
- Physical Description:
- 123 pages ; 16 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : City Lights Books, [1977]
- Summary:
- Meditations, rhapsodies, elegies, confessions, and mindful chronicle writings filling inward and outward space thru mid-Seventies decade. Mind Breaths: Australian songsticks measure oldest known poetics, broken-leg meditations march thru Six Worlds singing crazy Wisdom's hopeless suffering, the First Noble Truth, inspiring quiet Sung sunlit greybeard soliloquies, English moonlit night-gleams, ambitious mid-life fantasies, Ah crossed-legged thoughts sitting straight-spine paying attention to empty breath flowing 'round the globe;' then Dharma elegy & sharp-eyed haiku. Pederast rhapsody, exorcism of mid-East battlegods, workaday sad dust glories, American ego confession & mugging downfall Lower East Side, hospital sickness moan, hydrogen Jukebox Prophecy, Sex come-all-ye, mountain cabin flashes, Buddhist country western chord changes, Rolling Thunder snowballs, a Jersey Shaman dream, Father Death in a graveyard near Newark, Poe bones, two hot hearted love poems: Here chronicled mid Seventies' half decade inward & outward Mindfulness in many Poetries
- ISBN:
- 0872860922
- OCLC:
- 2798472
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