Collected Poems 1947-1997 by Ginsberg, Allen -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Contents COLLECTED POEMS 1947–1980

Dedication Author’s Preface, Reader’s Manual I. EMPTY MIRROR: GATES OF WRATH (1947–1952)

In Society The Bricklayer’s Lunch Hour Two Sonnets On Reading William Blake’s “The Sick Rose” The Eye Altering Alters All A Very Dove Vision 1948 Do We Understand Each Other? The Voice of Rock Refrain A Western Ballad The Trembling of the Veil A Meaningless Institution A Mad Gleam Complaint of the Skeleton to Time Psalm I An Eastern Ballad Sweet Levinsky Psalm II Fie My Fum Pull My Daisy The Shrouded Stranger Stanzas: Written at Night in Radio City After All, What Else Is There to Say? Sometime Jailhouse Blues Please Open the Window and Let Me In “Tonite all is well” Fyodor Epigram on a Painting of Golgotha “I attempted to concentrate” Metaphysics In Death, Cannot Reach What Is Most Near This Is About Death Hymn Sunset Ode to the Setting Sun Paterson Bop Lyrics A Dream Long Live the Spiderweb The Shrouded Stranger An Imaginary Rose in a Book Crash The Terms in Which I Think of Reality The Night-Apple Cézanne’s Ports The Blue Angel Two Boys Went Into a Dream Diner A Desolation In Memoriam: William Cannastra, 1922–1950 Ode: My 24th Year How Come He Got Canned at the Ribbon Factory The Archetype Poem A Typical Affair A Poem on America After Dead Souls Marijuana Notation Gregory Corso’s Story I Have Increased Power Walking home at night “I learned a world from each” “I made love to myself” A Ghost May Come “I feel as if I am at a dead end” An Atypical Affair 345 W. 15th St. A Crazy Spiritual Wild Orphan

II. THE GREEN: AUTOMOBILE (1953–1954)

The Green Automobile An Asphodel My Alba Sakyamuni Coming Out from the Mountain Havana 1953 Green Valentine Blues Siesta in Xbalba Song (“The weight of the world”) In back of the real On Burroughs’ Work Love Poem on Theme by Whitman Over Kansas

III. HOWL, BEFORE & AFTER SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA (1955–1956)

Malest Cornifici Tuo Catullo Dream Record: June 8, 1955 “Blessed be the Muses” Howl Footnote to Howl A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley A Supermarket in California Four Haiku Sunflower Sutra Transcription of Organ Music Sather Gate Illumination America Fragment 1956 Afternoon Seattle Tears Scribble In the Baggage Room at Greyhound Psalm III Many Loves Ready to Roll

IV. REALITY SANDWICHES: EUROPE! EUROPE! (1957–1959)

POEM Rocket Squeal Wrote This Last Night Death to Van Gogh’s Ear! Europe! Europe! The Lion for Real The Names At Apollinaire’s Grave Message To Lindsay To Aunt Rose American Change ‘Back on Times Square, Dreaming of Times Square’ Laughing Gas Funny Death My Sad Self Ignu Battleship Newsreel

V. KADDISH AND RELATED POEMS (1959–1960)

Kaddish: Proem, Narrative, Hymmnn, Lament, Litany and Fugue Mescaline Lysergic Acid I Beg You Come Back & Be Cheerful Psalm IV To an Old Poet in Peru Aether Magic Psalm The Reply The End Man’s glory Fragment: The Names II

VI. PLANET NEWS: TO EUROPE AND ASIA (1961–1963)

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 To P.O. Heat Describe: The Rain on Dasaswamedh Ghat Death News Vulture Peak: Gridhakuta Hill Patna-Benares Express Last Night in Calcutta Understand That This Is a Dream Angkor Wat The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express

VII. KING OF MAY: AMERICA TO EUROPE (1963–1965)

Nov. 23, 1963: Alone Why Is God Love, Jack? Morning Waking in New York After Yeats I Am a Victim of Telephone Today Message II Big Beat Café in Warsaw The Moments Return Kral Majales Guru Drowse Murmurs Who Be Kind To Studying the Signs Portland Coliseum

VIII. THE FALL OF AMERICA (1965–1971)

Thru the Vortex West Coast to East (1965–1966) Beginning of a Poem of These States Carmel Valley First Party at Ken Kesey’s with Hell’s Angels Continuation of a Long Poem of These States These States: into L.A. A Methedrine Vision in Hollywood Hiway Poesy: L.A.-Albuquerque-Texas-Wichita Chances “R” Wichita Vortex Sutra Auto Poesy: On the Lam from Bloomington Kansas City to Saint Louis Bayonne Entering NYC Growing Old Again Uptown The Old Village Before I Die Consulting I Ching Smoking Pot Listening to the Fugs Sing Blake Zigzag Back Thru These States (1966—1967) Cleveland, the Flats To the Body Iron Horse City Midnight Junk Strains A Vow Autumn Gold: New England Fall Done, Finished with the Biggest Cock Holy Ghost on the Nod over the Body of Bliss Bayonne Turnpike to Tuscarora An Open Window on Chicago Returning North of Vortex Wales Visitation Pentagon Exorcism Elegy Che Guevara War Profit Litany Elegies for Neal Cassady (1968) Chicago to Salt Lake by Air Kiss Ass Manhattan Thirties Flash Please Master A Prophecy Bixby Canyon Crossing Nation Smoke Rolling Down Street Pertussin Swirls of black dust on Avenue D Violence Past Silver Durango Over Mexic Sierra-Wrinkles On Neal’s Ashes Going to Chicago Grant Park: August 28, 1968 Car Crash Ecologues of These States (1969–1971) Imaginary Universes Rising over night-blackened Detroit Streets To Poe: Over the Planet, Air Albany–Baltimore Easter Sunday Falling Asleep in America Northwest Passage Sonora Desert-Edge Reflections in Sleepy Eye Independence Day In a Moonlit Hermit’s Cabin Rain-wet asphalt heat, garbage curbed cans overflowing Death on All Fronts Memory Gardens Flash Back Graffiti 12th Cubicle Men’s Room Syracuse Airport After Thoughts G. S. Reading Poesy at Princeton Friday the Thirteenth Anti-Vietnam War Peace Mobilization Ecologue Guru Om “Have You Seen This Movie?” Milarepa Taste Over Laramie Bixby Canyon to Jessore Road (1971) Hum Bom! September on Jessore Road

IX. MIND BREATHS ALL OVER THE PLACE (1972–1977)

Sad Dust Glories (1972–1974) Voznesensky’s “Silent Tingling” These States: to Miami Presidential Convention Xmas Gift Thoughts Sitting Breathing “What would you do if you lost it?” Who Yes and It’s Hopeless Under the world there’s a lot of ass, a lot of cunt Returning to the Country for a Brief Visit Night Gleam What I’d Like to Do On Illness News Bulletin On Neruda’s Death Mind Breaths Flying Elegy Teton Village Sweet Boy, Gimme Yr Ass Jaweh and Allah Battle Manifesto Sad Dust Glories Ego Confessions (1974–1977) Mugging Who Runs America? Thoughts on a Breath We Rise on Sun Beams and Fall in the Night Written on Hotel Napkin: Chicago Futures Hospital Window Hadda Be Playing on the Jukebox Come All Ye Brave Boys Sickness Blues Gospel Noble Truths Rolling Thunder Stones Cabin in the Rockies Reading French Poetry Two Dreams C’mon Jack Pussy Blues Don’t Grow Old “Junk Mail” “You Might Get in Trouble” Land O’Lakes, Wisc. “Drive All Blames into One” Land O’Lakes, Wisconsin: Vajrayana Seminary For Creeley’s Ear Haunting Poe’s Baltimore Contest of Bards I Lay Love on My Knee Stool Pigeon Blues Punk Rock Your My Big Crybaby Love Replied

X. PLUTONIAN ODE (1977–1980)

What’s Dead Grim Skeleton Ballade of Poisons Lack Love Father Guru Manhattan May Day Midnight Adapted from Neruda’s “Que dispierte el leñador” Nagasaki Days Plutonian Ode Old Pond Blame the Thought, Cling to the Bummer “Don’t Grow Old” Love Returned December 31, 1978 Brooklyn College Brain Garden State Spring Fashions Las Vegas: Verses Improvised for El Dorado H.S. Newspaper To the Punks of Dawlish Some Love Maybe Love Ruhr-Gebiet Tübingen-Hamburg Schlafwagen Love Forgiven Verses Written for Student Antidraft Registration Rally 1980 Homework After Whitman & Reznikoff Reflections at Lake Louise τεθνάκην δ’ όλίγω ’πιδενης ϕαίόμ’ άλαία Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night Writing Letters Ode to Failure Birdbrain! Eroica “Defending the Faith” Capitol Air

Appendix for Collected Poems

Notes Epigraphs from Original Editions Dedication Acknowledgments Introduction by William Carlos Williams to Empty Mirror Introduction by William Carlos Williams to Howl Author’s Cover Writ Index of Proper Names

WHITE SHROUD POEMS 1980–1985

Dedication Acknowledgments Porch Scribbles Industrial Waves Those Two Homage Vajracarya Why I Meditate Love Comes Old Love Story Airplane Blues Do the Meditation Rock The Little Fish Devours the Big Fish Happening Now? A Public Poetry “What You Up To?” Maturity “Throw Out the Yellow Journalists of Bad Grammar & Terrible Manner” Going to the World of the Dead Irritable Vegetable Thoughts Sitting Breathing II What the Sea Throws Up at Vlissingen I Am Not I’m a Prisoner of Allen Ginsberg 221 Syllables at Rocky Mountain Dharma Center Fighting Phantoms Fighting Phantoms Arguments Sunday Prayer Brown Rice Quatrains They’re All Phantoms of My Imagining White Shroud Empire Air Surprise Mind Student Love The Question In My Kitchen in New York It’s All So Brief I Love Old Whitman So Written in My Dream by W. C. Williams One Morning I Took a Walk in China Reading Bai Juyi Black Shroud World Karma Prophecy Memory Cousins Moral Majority The Guest After Antipater Jumping the Gun on the Sun Cadillac Squawk Things I Don’t Know Notes

COSMOPOLITAN GREETINGS OEMS 1986–1992

Dedication ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE PROLOGUE You Don’t Know It On the Conduct of the World Seeking Beauty Against Government Hard Labor Velocity of Money Sphincter Spot Anger London Dream Doors Cosmopolitan Greetings Fifth Internationale Europe, Who Knows? Graphic Winces Imitation of K.S. I Went to the Movie of Life When the Light Appears On Cremation of Chögyam Trungpa, Vidyadhara Nanao Personals Ad Proclamation To Jacob Rabinowitz Grandma Earth’s Song Salutations to Fernando Pessoa May Days 1988 Numbers in U.S. File Cabinet Return of Kral Majales Elephant in the Meditation Hall Poem in the Form of a Snake That Bites Its Tail Mistaken Introductions CIA Dope Calypso N.S.A. Dope Calypso Just Say Yes Calypso Hum Bom! Supplication for the Rebirth of the Vidyadhara After the Big Parade Big Eats Not Dead Yet Yiddishe Kopf John A Thief Stole This Poem Lunchtime Deadline Dragon Comix After Lalon Get It? Angelic Black Holes Research Put Down Your Cigarette Rag Violent Collaborations Calm Panic Campaign Promise Now and Forever Who Eats Who? The Charnel Ground Everyday Fun House Antique Store News Stays News Autumn Leaves In the Benjo American Sentences Notes

DEATH & FAME POEMS 1993–1997

Acknowledgments Foreword New Democracy Wish List Peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina After the Party After Olav H. Hauge These knowing age C’mon Pigs of Western Civilization Eat More Grease Here We Go ’Round the Mulberry Bush Tuesday Morn God Ah War Excrement New Stanzas for Amazing Grace City Lights City Newt Gingrich Declares War on “McGovernik Counterculture” Pastel Sentences (Selections) Nazi Capish Is About The Ballad of the Skeletons “You know what I’m saying?” Bowel Song Popular Tunes Five A.M. Power Anger Multiple Identity Questionnaire Don’t Get Angry with Me Swan Songs in the Present Gone Gone Gone Reverse the rain of Terror Sending Message No! No! It’s Not the End Bad Poem Homeless Compleynt Happy New Year Robert & June Diamond Bells Virtual Impunity Blues Waribashi Good Luck Some Little Boys Dont Jacking Off Think Tank Rhymes Song of the Washing Machine World Bank Blues Richard III Death & Fame Sexual Abuse Butterfly Mind A fellow named Steven Half Asleep Objective Subject Kerouac Hepatitis Body Itch … Whitmanic Poem American Sentences 1995–1997 Variations on Ma Rainey’s See See Rider Sky Words Scatalogical Observations My Team Is Red Hot Starry Rhymes Thirty State Bummers “I have a nosebleed …” “Timmy made a hot milk” “This kind of Hepatitis can cause ya” “Giddy-yup giddy-yup giddy-yap” “Turn on the heat & take a seat” Bop Sh’bam Dream Things I’ll Not Do (Nostalgias) Afterword: On Death & Fame Notes INDEX OF TITLES, FIRST LINES, AND ORIGINAL BOOK SOURCES

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