Allen Ginsberg Mind Breaths (Paperback) City Lights Pocket Poets Series

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Mind BreathsCondition: NewSubtitle: Poems 1972-1977EAN: 9780872860926ISBN: 9780872860926Publisher: City Lights BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/17/1977Description: 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."Allen Ginsberg's poems of the 1970's are a marvel, his new book, "Mind Breaths," presenting a half dozen poems, probably more, that are first-rate Ginsberg...The poems are there-on the page, in the book. They are called "mind breaths." No need to speak of kinds, qualities, degrees, the intellect's inevitable meanderings. The poems exist. Think of all the millions of things that might have gone otherwise, so that they might not exist. Our times are bleak enough, heaven knows, but at least we have this." --Hayden Carruth, New York Times Allen Ginsberg was born June 3, 1926, the son of Naomi Ginsberg, Russian emigre, and Louis Ginsberg, lyric poet and school teacher, in Paterson, N.J. To these facts Ginsberg adds: "High school in Paterson till 17, Columbia College, merchant marine, Texas and Denver copyboy, Times Square, amigos in jail, dishwashing, book reviews, Mexico City, market research, Satori in Harlem, Yucatan and Chiapas 1954, West Coast 3 years. Later Arctic Sea trip, Tangier, Venice, Amsterdam, Paris, read at Oxford Harvard Columbia Chicago, quit, wrote "Kaddish" 1959, made tape to leave behind & fade in Orient awhile.Carl Solomon to whom "Howl" is addressed, is a intuitive Bronx dadaist and prose-poet."Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 157mmItem Length: 121mmItem Weight: 127gAuthor: Allen GinsbergGenre: Poetry & DramaBook Series: City Lights Pocket Poets SeriesItem Width: 10mmRelease Year: 1977 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Publication Name: Mind Breaths

Title: Mind Breaths

Subtitle: Poems 1972-1977

EAN: 9780872860926

ISBN: 9780872860926

Release Date: 02/17/1977

Release Year: 1977

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series

Book Title: Mind Breaths Vol. 35 : Poems 1972-1977

Number of Pages: 130 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: City Lights

Publication Year: 1977

Item Height: 0.4 in

Topic: General, American / General

Genre: Poetry

Item Weight: 4.6 Oz

Item Length: 6.2 in

Author: Allen Ginsberg

Item Width: 4.8 in

Book Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.

Format: Trade Paperback