Planet News
Book by Allen Ginsberg
Planet News is a book of poetry written by Allen Ginsberg and published by City Lights Bookstore in 1968. It is number twenty three in the Pocket Poets series.[1] It contains poems written by Ginsberg between 1961 and 1967, many written during his travels to India, Japan, Europe, Africa, and many other places.[2] Poems in this collection include:[1]
- "Television was a Baby Crawling Toward that Deathchamber"
- "This form of Life needs Sex"
- "Stotras to Kali Destroyer of Illusions"
- "Describe: The Rain on Dasaswamedh"
- "Death News"—about his first reactions upon hearing of the death of William Carlos Williams
- "The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express"
- "Why is God Love, Jack?"—addressing Jack Kerouac
- "After Yeats"
- "I am a Victim of Telephone"
- "Kral Majales"—about being nominated "The King of May"
- "Who Be Kind To"
- "First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels"
- "Wichita Vortex Sutra"
- "City Midnight Junk Strains"
- "Wales Visitation"
References
- ^ a b Morgan, Bill (1995). The works of Allen Ginsberg, 1941-1994 : a descriptive bibliography. Bibliographies and indexes in American Literature. Westport: Greenwood. pp. 24–26. ISBN 9780313293894. ISSN 0742-6860. LCCN 94-41266. OCLC 650305543. Retrieved 13 November 2014 – via Google Books.
- ^ Heims, Neil (2013). Allen Ginsberg (e-book). Great Writers. New York: Chelsea House. ISBN 9781438148366. Retrieved 13 November 2014 – via Google Books.
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Allen Ginsberg
collections
- Howl and Other Poems (1956)
- Kaddish and Other Poems (1961)
- Reality Sandwiches (1963)
- Planet News (1968)
- The Fall of America: Poems of These States (1973)
- Mind Breaths (1978)
- White Shroud Poems: 1980–1985 (1986)
- "Pull My Daisy" (late 1940s)
- "A Supermarket in California" (1956)
- "America" (1956)
- "Howl" (1956)
- "Ignu" (1958)
- "Kaddish" (1961)
- "Wichita Vortex Sutra" (1966)
- "September on Jessore Road" (1971)
- Iron Horse (1973)
- "Hadda Be Playing on the Jukebox" (1975)
- "Plutonian Ode" (1978)
- The Yage Letters (1963, letters)
- Songs of Innocence and Experience (1970 album)
- Deliberate Prose 1952–1995 (2000, essays)
- Pull My Daisy (1959)
- Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (1993)
- The Source (1999)
- Beat (2000)
- Allen Ginsberg Live in London (2005)
- Corso: The Last Beat (2007)
- I'm Not There (2007)
- Chicago 10 (2009)
- The Chicago 8 (2010)
- Howl (2010)
- Kill Your Darlings (2013)
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