Mind Breaths: Poems 1972-1977

by Allen Ginsberg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872860922
• ISBN13: 9780872860926
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

If you read no other book this is the book to read regarding the 20th Century

This is the book that started it all. Just some guys hanging out in San Francisco and one was Allen Ginsberg. Howl says it all regarding the free spirit, the intelligent and the noncomformist. He was a generation or two before me, but I can relate to his concepts regarding his friends and associates. He created a style which freed up american writing. He freed up minds which allowed for further movements beyond the beat: hippies, punks, greens, feminists, the mind searchers and the incents burners. A must read and reread again in a few years. All the anguish released!!