Mind Breaths: Poems 1972-1977 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) [Paperback]

Allen Ginsberg (Author)

Book Description

Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series | Publication Date: January 1, 2001

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

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About the Author

Allen Ginsberg is also the author of Howl and Other Poems, which was originally published by City Lights Books in the fall of 1956.

Product Details

• Paperback: 5 pages
• Publisher: City Lights Publishers; First Edition edition (January 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0872860922
• ISBN-13: 978-0872860926
• Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #796,550 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Allen Ginsberg was born in 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, a son of Naomi Ginsberg and lyric poet Louis Ginsberg. In 1956 he published his signal poem, Howl, one of the most widely read and translated poems of the century. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, awarded the medal of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French minister of culture in 1993, and co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute, the first accredited Buddhist college in the Western world, Allen Ginsberg died on April 5, 1997.

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5.0 out of 5 stars If you read no other book this is the book to read regarding the 20th Century, August 5, 2007

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This review is from: Mind Breaths: Poems 1972-1977 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) (Paperback)

This is the book that started it all. Just some guys hanging out in San Francisco and one was Allen Ginsberg. Howl says it all regarding the free spirit, the intelligent and the noncomformist. He was a generation or two before me, but I can relate to his concepts regarding his friends and associates. He created a style which freed up american writing. He freed up minds which allowed for further movements beyond the beat: hippies, punks, greens, feminists, the mind searchers and the incents burners.
A must read and reread again in a few years. All the anguish released!!