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White shroud : poems, 1980-1985 / Allen Ginsberg.
LIBRA PS3513.I74 W46 1987 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay men's writings, American.
- Gay men--Poetry.
- Gay men.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 89 pages : music ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Perennial Library edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Perennial Library, 1987.
- Summary:
- A fine new collection of poems by Ginsberg that feature an important new work, the title poem "White Shroud".
- Contents:
- Porch Scribbles 1
- Industrial Waves 3
- Those Two 7
- Homage Vajracarya 8
- Why I Meditate 9
- Love Comes 10
- Old Love Story 14
- Airplane Blues 17
- Do the Meditation Rock 21
- The Little Fish Devours the Big Fish 23
- Happening Now? 26
- A Public Poetry 27
- "What You Up To?" 28
- Maturity 30
- "Throw Out the Yellow Journalists of Bad Grammar & Terrible Manner" 31
- Going to the World of the Dead 33
- Irritable Vegetable 35
- Thoughts Sitting Breathing II 36
- What the Sea Throws Up at Vlissingen 38
- I Am Not 39
- I'm a Prisoner of Allen Ginsberg 40
- 221 Syllables at Rocky Mountain Dharma Center 41
- Fighting Phantoms Fighting Phantoms 42
- Arguments 43
- Sunday Prayer 44
- Brown Rice Quatrains 45
- They're All Phantoms of My Imagining 46
- White Shroud 47
- Empire Air 51
- Surprise Mind 53
- Student Love 54
- The Question 55
- In My Kitchen in New York 56
- It's All So Brief 57
- I Love Old Whitman So 58
- Written in My Dream / W. C. Williams 59
- One Morning I Took a Walk in China 61
- Reading Bai Juyi-I. II. III. IV. V. China Bronchitis VI. VII. Transformation of Bai's "A Night in Xingyang" 63
- Black Shroud 69
- World Karma 71
- Prophecy 73
- Memory Cousins 74
- Moral Majority 75
- The Guest 76
- After Antipater 79
- Jumping the Gun on the Sun 80
- Cadillac Squawk 83
- Things I Don't Know 84.
- Notes:
- Includes melodies with chord symbols for some of the poems.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0060914297
- 9780060914295
- OCLC:
- 17245175
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