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Mind breaths : poems, 1972-1977 / [by] Allen Ginsberg.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0872860922
- ISBN: 9780872860926
- Physical Description: 123 pages : illustrations, music ; 16 cm.
- Publisher: San Francisco : City Lights Books, 1978.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Allentown Public Library | 811.54 GINS (Text) | 34455005708199 | Adult Nonfiction 1st FL | Available | - |
