Description: Title: Planet News: 1961-1967 Author: Ginsberg, Allen Publisher: City Lights Books Binding: Paperback Pages: 144 Dimensions: 6.23h x 4.87w x 0.44d Product Weight: 0.29 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780872860209 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. - Allen Ginsberg"Planet News is a great book of poems. It encourages the reader to release their pre-conceived notions of poetry, and allow themselves to dance disturbingly through a picture that Ginsberg paints. . . . Planet News is a beautiful read. If it's not something you're immediately interested in, the read is worth it for the mere significance Allen Ginsberg has had on the art of poetry."-Ned Tobin, Chronicles of Time"In this collection, the shorter poems, with their impressive grip on exact description, are the best, and remind us of how Ginsberg sees everything-railroads, cloverleafs, Dino Sinclair signs, 'tiny human trees' in the plains, newspaper stories and their reduction of the real to the ("continued from page one") verbal, football fields, J. Edgar Hoover, and above all himself. For his contemporaries, he is the biographer of his time-its high schools, its streets, its telephones, its monsters ('television was a baby crawling toward that deathchamber"), its bland head counts, its drugs, its cops, its cities, its freeways, and most of all its short-cut language."--Helen Vendler, New York Times Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Book Title: Planet News : 1961-1967
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: City Lights
Topic: General, American / General
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 1968
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 4.6 Oz
Item Length: 6.3 in
Author: Allen Ginsberg
Book Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
Item Width: 4.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
