The Standing Rabbit
Plutonian Ode and Other Poems 1977-1980 by Allen Ginsberg
Plutonian Ode and Other Poems 1977-1980 by Allen Ginsberg
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Plutonian Ode and Other Poems 1977-1980 by Allen Ginsberg is a 107-page softcover published by City Lights Books, first published in 1982, this copy published in 1992 as a third printing. The cover has a line of sticker residue down the front. The page edges is foxing. Inside, the pages are clean, unmarked, and tightly bound. The condition is good.
Book Blurb
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 chronologize 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, professorial homework, New Jersey quatrains, scarecrow haiku, improvised dice roll for highschool kids, English rock-and-roll sophistocations, 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 flashes in the Buddah-fields, Sapphic stanzas in quantitative idiom, look out the bedroom window, feverish birdbrain verses from Eastern Europe for chanting with electric bands, Beethovian ear strophies drowned in rain, a glance at Cloud Castle, poems 1977-1980 end with International new wave hit lyric Capitol Air.
ISBN: 0-87286-125-2 (pbk)


