White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985 - Softcover

Ginsberg, Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060914297 ISBN 13: 9780060914295

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 1987

Synopsis

Poems by a modern master. "[Ginsberg's] powerful mixture of Blake, Whitman, Pound, and Williams, to which he added his own volatile, grotesque, and tender humor, has assured him a memorable place in modern poetry."-- Helen Vendler

About this title

About the Author:

Allen Ginsberg was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as a winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1926, and died in New York City in 1997.

Review:

The Question
221 Syllables At Rocky Mountain Dharma Center
After Antipater
Airplane Blues (with Music)
Arguments
Black Shroud
Brown Rice Quatrains
Cadillac Squawk
Do The Meditation Rock
Empire Air (flying To Rochester Institute Of Technology)
Fighting Phantoms Fighting Phantoms
Going To The World Of The Dead (with Music)
The Guest
Happening Now? End Of Earth? Apocalypse Days?
Homage Vajracarya
I Am Not
I Love Old Whitman So
I'm A Prisoner Of Allen Ginsberg
In My Kitchen In New York
Industrial Waves
Irritable Vegetable
It's All So Brief
Jumping The Gun On The Sun
The Little Fish Devours The Big Fish (with Music)
Love Comes
Maturity
Memory Cousins
Moral Majority
Old Love Story
One Morning I Took A Walk In China
Porch Scribbles (1)
Porch Scribbles (2)
Porch Scribbles (3)
Prophecy
A Public Poetry
Reading Bai Juyi
Red Cheeked Boyfriends Tenderly Kiss Me Sweet Mouthed
Student Love
Sunday Prayer
Surprise Mind
They're All Phantoms Of My Imagining
Things I Don't Know
Those Two
Thoughts Sitting Breathing Ii
'throw Out The Yellow Journalists Of Bad Grammar'
What The Sea Throws Up At Vlissengen
What You Up To?
White Shroud
Why I Meditate
World Karma
Written In My Dream By W. C. Williams
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0060914297
• ISBN 13: 9780060914295
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 89