Plutonian Ode: And Other Poems 1977-1980 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

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by: Allen Ginsberg

: Plutonian Ode: And Other Poems 1977-1980 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780872861251
ISBN: 0872861252
Label: City Lights Publishers
Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: January 01, 2001
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Studio: City Lights Publishers



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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 chronologies 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, professional 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 flashed in the Buddhafields, Sapphic stanzas in quantitative idiom, look out at 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





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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - very good
i found this book of poetry and poesy from Ginsberg to be delightful. it is perhaps not for non-intellectuals. i myself had trouble with many of the allusions, and am probably above average in intelligence for my age, 17. i don't know. but get it. it's quite insightful.



 


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