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Mind Breaths

  • Allen Ginsberg

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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.

Genres

  • 1970s poetry
  • Beat Generation poets
  • Beat poetry
  • confessional poetry
  • elegaic poetry
  • poetry inspired by Buddhism
  • poetry of meditation
  • Poetry (poetic works by one author)
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About the author

  • Allen Ginsberg

    1926 - 1997

    4.00

    53 ratings · 232 works

Editions

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    City Lights Publishers

    01 September 1977

  • Edition cover

    City Lights Books

    1977

  • Edition cover

    City Lights Publishers

    01 September 1977

  • Edition cover

    City Lights Books

    1977

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City Lights Books