Collected Poems 1947-1997 - Ginsberg Allen - Страница 211
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May 26, 1968
After Words for The Fall of America
Beginning with “long poem of these States,” The Fall of America continues Planet News chronicle taperecorded scribed by hand or sung condensed, the flux of car bus airplane dream consciousness Person during Automated Electronic War years, newspaper headline radio brain auto poesy & silent desk musings, headlights flashing on road through these States of consciousness. Texts here dedicated to Whitman Good Grey Poet complement otherwhere published Wichita Vortex Sutra and Iron Horse. The book enters Northwest border thence down California Coast Xmas 1965 and wanders East to include history epic in Kansas & Bayonne, mantra chanting in Cleveland smoke flats, Great Lake hotel room midnight soliloquies, defeatest prophetics Nebraskan, sociable kissass in Houston, sexist gay rhapsodies, elegy for love friend poet heroes threaded through American silver years, pacifist-voweled changes of self in robot city, wavecrash babbling & prayers airborne, reportage Presidentiad Chicago police-state teargas eye, car crash body consciousness, ecologue inventory over Atlantic seaboard’s iron Megalopolis & west desert’s smog-tinged Vast. Back home, Mannahatta’s garbaged loves survive, farm country without electricity falltime harvest’s the illegal Indochina bomb paranoia guilt. Guru Om meditation breaks through onto empty petrochemical wonderland, & so adieu to empty-lov’d America. Book returns to Pacific flowered seashore with antibomb call, then across ocean great suffering starvation’s visible, bony human September on Jessore Road ends as mantric lamentation rhymed for vocal chant to western chords F minor B flat E flat B flat.
October 7, 1972
Back Cover for 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 snow balls, 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: Aboriginal rhetoric, mouth-page free verse-forms, Whitmanic-miltonic periods, Chinese-american imagery, scholarly politics apostrophe, dirty blues & racy ballads rocknroll & airy numbers musicked with lead-sheets, 3 line sparks, objective tombstones, & in narrative high style Oratory a Blakean Punk Epic with nirvanic Rune music the Contest of Bards.
September 23, 1977
Back Cover for Plutonian Ode
Title poem combines scientific info on 24,000-year cycle of the Great Year compared with equal half-life of Plutonium waste, accounting Homeric formula for appeasing underground millionaire Pluto Lord of Death, jack in the gnostic box of Aeons, and Adamantine Truth of ordinary mind inspiration, unhexing Nuclear ministry of fear. Following poems chronologize Wyoming grass blues, a punk-rock sonnet, personal grave musing, Manhattan landscape hypertension, lovelorn heart thumps, mantric rhymes, Neruda’s tearful Lincoln ode retranslated to U.S. vernacular oratory, Nagasaki Bomb anniversary haikus, Zen Bluegrass raunch, free verse demystification of sacred fame, Reznikoffian filial epiphanies, hot pants Skeltonic doggerel, a Kerouackian New Year’s eve ditty, professorial homework, New Jersey quatrains, scarecrow haiku, improvised dice roll for high-school kids, English rock-and-roll sophistications, an old love glimpse, little German movies, old queen conclusions, a tender renaissance song, ode to hero-flop, Peace protest prophecies, Lower East Side snapshots, national flashes in the Buddhafields, Sapphic stanzas in quantitative idiom, look out the bedroom window, feverish birdbrain verses from Eastern Europe for chanting with electric bands, Beethovinean ear strophes drowned in rain, a glance at Cloud Castle, poems 1977–1980 end with International new wave hit lyric Capitol Air.
September 28, 1981
Index of Proper Names
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Abe (Ginsberg), 664
Abraham, 623
Abraham, Israel (Irwin Allen), see Ginsberg, Allen
Acheson, Dean, 492
Acis, 72
Adam, 335, 342, 361, 368, 559
Adam Longhair, see Adam
Adams, Sherman, 202, see n.
Adonaeus, 710
Adonais, 217, 615
Adonis, 136
Agnew, Spiro, 594, 614
Ahab, Captain, 563
Aiken, George D., 406, see n.
Alan, see White, J. Alan
Alexander the Great, 745
Alexander, Holmes, 406
Alice in Wonderland, 222
Allah, 402, 404, 415, 622, 623, 624, 697
Allen, see Ginsberg, Allen
Altgeld, John P., 222, see n.
Amitendranath Tagore, 607
Amter, Israel, 155, see n.
Anacreon, 369, 600
Anderson, Senator, 386
Andy (Warhol), 654
Angelico, Beato, 236
Ann, see Buchanan, Ann
Anna (Ginsberg), 664
Anne (Murphy), 341
Ansen, Alan, 106, 186
Antinous, 236
Antoinette, Marie, 556
Apollinaire, Guillaume (William), 188, 528
Apollinaire de Kostrowitsky, Guillaume, see Apollinaire, Guillaume
Apollo, 34, 190, 602
Arafat, Yasir, 623
Ardinarishvara, 602, see n.
Arhat, 98, see n.
Artaud, Antonin, 177, 189
Arthur, Gavin, 443, see n.
Ashbery, John, 725
Astapheus, 710
Avalokitesvara, 316, 321, 324, see n.
Avrum, Svul (Irwin Allen), see Ginsberg,
Allen
Ayatollah, 753
Babaji, 561
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 159, 360
Baez, Joan, 381, 507
Baghavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, 461
Baldwin, Hanson, 498, 499, 500
Balabanoff, Angelica, 288, see n.
Balzac, Honore de, 185
Bara, Theda, 385
Barbara (Rubin), 537
Bartleby, 78
Baruch, Bernard, 285
Batman, 475, 481
Baudelaire, Charles, 74, 81, 276
Baudouin, King, 478
Beach Boys, The, 476, 527
Beatles, The, 379, 382, 387, 527, 552
Beaverbrook, Lord, 179
Beckett, Samuel, 353
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 745, 748, 749
Ben-Gurion, David, 623
Bhaktivedanta Swami, 518, 600, 610, see n.
Bill, see Burroughs, William S.
Bimbisara, 306
Black, Phil, 185
Blake, William, 14, 146, 172, 196, 212, 246, 305, 309, 355, 362, 415, 434, 474, 550, 561, 600, 603, 610, 631, 685
Blitzer, Sylvia, 725
Blok, Alexander, 177
Bloor, Mother (Ella Reeve), 155, see n.
Blow, Joe, see Ginsberg, Allen
Bly, Robert, 532
Bodhidharma, 475, see n.
Boehme, Jakob, 550
Boito, Arrigo, 236
Bond, Julian, 666
Borah, Senator, 224
Bozzo, Joe, 601, see n.
Bradley, 386
Brahma, 548, 602
Brakefield, Private, 546
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