Poetry. 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 world globe, elan perceptions notated at Mediterranean, Galilee & Ganges till next breakthrough, comedown Poem 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; nest trip West Coast thru center America Midwest "Wichita Vortex Sutra".at last across Atlantic "Wales Visitation promethean text recollected in emotion revised in tranquility continuing tradition of ancient Nature Language mediates between psychedelic inspiration and humane ecology & intergrates acid classic Unitive Vison with democratic eyeball particulars - book closes on politics to exorcise Pentagon phantoms who cover Earth with dung-colored gas.

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

Allen Ginsberg was born June 3, 1926, the son of Naomi Ginsberg, Russian émigré, and Louis Ginsberg, lyric poet and school teacher, in Paterson, New Jersey. To these facts Ginsberg adds: "High school in Paterson till 17, Columbia College, merchant marine, Texas and Denver copyboy, Times Square, amigos in jail, dishwashing, book reviews, Mexico City, market research, Satori in Harlem, Yucatan and Chiapas 1954, West Coast 3 years. Later Arctic Sea trip, Tangier, Venice, Amsterdam, Paris, read at Oxford Harvard Columbia Chicago, quit, wrote 'Kaddish' 1959, made tape to leave behind & fade in Orient awhile. Carl Solomon to whom 'Howl' is addressed, is a intuitive Bronx dadaist and prose-poet." In 1973, he and poet Anne Waldman co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Ginsberg succumbed to liver cancer in 1997.