| Description |
144 pages ; 16 cm |
| Series |
The Pocket poets series ; no. 23 |
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Pocket poets series ; no. 23
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| Contents |
Who will take over the Universe? -- Journal night thoughts -- Television was a baby crawling toward that deathchamber -- This form of life needs sex -- Sunset S.S. Azemour -- Seabattle of Salamis took place off Perama -- Galilee Shore -- Stotras to Kali destroyer of illusions -- Describe: the rain on Dasaswamedh -- Death news -- Vulture Peak: Gridhakuta Hill -- Patna-Benares Express -- Last night in Calcutta -- The change: Kyoto-Tokoyo Express -- Why is God love, Jack? -- Morning -- Waking in New York -- After Yeats -- I am a victim of telephone -- Today -- Message II -- Big beat -- Cafe in Warshaw -- The moments return -- Kral Majales -- Guru -- Drowse murmurs -- Who be kind to -- Studying the signs -- Portland Coloseum -- First party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels -- Carmel Valley -- A vision in Hollywood -- Chances "R" -- Wichita vortex sutra -- Uptown -- To the body -- City midnight junk strains -- Holy ghost on the nod over the body of bliss -- Wales visitation -- Pentagon exorcism |
| Summary |
"Planet News collecting seven years' Poesy scribed to 1967 begins with electronic politics disassociation & messianic rhapsody TV Baby in New York, continues picaresque around the globe, elan perceptions notated at Mediterranean, Galilee & Ganges till next breakthrough, comedown Poem at heart & soul last days in Asia The Change 1963; tenement doldrums & police-state paranoia in Manhattan then half year behind Socialist Curtain climaxed as Kral Majales May King Prague 1965, same years' erotic gregariousness writ as Who Be Kind To for International Poetry Incarnation Albert Hall London; next trip West Coast thru center America Midwest Wichita Vortex Sutra ... at last across Atlantic Wales Visitation promethian text recollected in emotion revised in tranquility continuing tradition of ancient Nature Language mediates between psychedelic inspiration and humane ecology & integrated acid classic Unitive Vision with democratic eyeball particulars-book closes on politics to exorcise Pentagon phantoms who cover Earth with dung-colored gas."--Jacket |
| Notes |
Poems |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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Beats (Persons) -- Poetry.
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Poets, American -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Author |
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, editor
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City Lights Books, publisher
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| LC no. |
68025477 |
| ISBN |
0872860205 paperback |
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9780872860209 paperback |
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