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Mind breaths : poems, 1972-1977 / Allen Ginsberg.
LIBRA - Special PS3513.I74 M5 1978 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
- Series:
- Pocket poets series ; no. 35.
- The Pocket poets series ; no. 35
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 123 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : City Lights Books, [1978]
- Summary:
- From the Publisher: 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.
- Contents:
- Ayers rock Uluru song
- Xmas gift
- Thoughts sitting breathing
- What would you do if you lost it?
- Yes and it's hopeless
- Under the world there's a lot of ass
- Returning to the country for a brief visit
- Night gleam
- What I'd like to do
- On Neruda's death
- Mind breaths
- Flying elegy
- Teton village
- Sweet boy, gimme yr ass
- Jaweh and Allah battle
- Manifesto
- Sad dust glories
- Ego confession
- Mugging
- Who runs America?
- We rise on sun beams and fall in the night
- Written on hotel napkin: Chicago futures
- Hospital window
- Hadda be playing on the jukebox
- Sickness blues
- Come all ye brave boys
- Cabin in the Rockies
- Gospel noble truths
- Rolling thunder stones
- Two dreams
- Don't grow old
- Drive all blames into one
- Haunting Poe's Baltimore
- Contest of bards
- I lay love on my knee
- Love replied.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page [125-126]).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 is 2000 printing.
- OCLC:
- 4322662
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