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May 26, 1968

                    After Words for The Fall of America

Beginning with “long poem of these States,” The Fall of America continues Planet News chronicle taperecorded scribed by hand or sung condensed, the flux of car bus airplane dream consciousness Person during Automated Electronic War years, newspaper headline radio brain auto poesy & silent desk musings, headlights flashing on road through these States of consciousness. Texts here dedicated to Whitman Good Grey Poet complement otherwhere published Wichita Vortex Sutra and Iron Horse. The book enters Northwest border thence down California Coast Xmas 1965 and wanders East to include history epic in Kansas & Bayonne, mantra chanting in Cleveland smoke flats, Great Lake hotel room midnight soliloquies, defeatest prophetics Nebraskan, sociable kissass in Houston, sexist gay rhapsodies, elegy for love friend poet heroes threaded through American silver years, pacifist-voweled changes of self in robot city, wavecrash babbling & prayers airborne, reportage Presidentiad Chicago police-state teargas eye, car crash body consciousness, ecologue inventory over Atlantic seaboard’s iron Megalopolis & west desert’s smog-tinged Vast. Back home, Mannahatta’s garbaged loves survive, farm country without electricity falltime harvest’s the illegal Indochina bomb paranoia guilt. Guru Om meditation breaks through onto empty petrochemical wonderland, & so adieu to empty-lov’d America. Book returns to Pacific flowered seashore with antibomb call, then across ocean great suffering starvation’s visible, bony human September on Jessore Road ends as mantric lamentation rhymed for vocal chant to western chords F minor B flat E flat B flat.

October 7, 1972

                    Back Cover for 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 thoughts sitting straight-spine paying attention to empty breath flowing round the globe; then Dharma elegy & sharp eyed haiku, pederast rhapsody, exorcism of mid-East battlegods, workaday sad dust glories. American ego confession & mugging downfall Lower East Side, hospital sickness moan, hydrogen Jukebox Prophecy, Sex come-all-ye, mountain cabin flashes, Buddhist country western chord changes, Rolling Thunder snow balls, a Jersey shaman dream, Father Death in a graveyard near Newark, Poe bones, two hot hearted love poems: Here chronicled mid-Seventies’ half decade inward & outward Mindfulness in many Poetries: Aboriginal rhetoric, mouth-page free verse-forms, Whitmanic-miltonic periods, Chinese-american imagery, scholarly politics apostrophe, dirty blues & racy ballads rocknroll & airy numbers musicked with lead-sheets, 3 line sparks, objective tombstones, & in narrative high style Oratory a Blakean Punk Epic with nirvanic Rune music the Contest of Bards.

September 23, 1977

                    Back Cover for 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 high-school kids, English rock-and-roll sophistications, 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 Buddhafields, Sapphic stanzas in quantitative idiom, look out the bedroom window, feverish birdbrain verses from Eastern Europe for chanting with electric bands, Beethovinean ear strophes drowned in rain, a glance at Cloud Castle, poems 1977–1980 end with International new wave hit lyric Capitol Air.

September 28, 1981

Index of Proper Names

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Abe (Ginsberg), 664

Abraham, 623

Abraham, Israel (Irwin Allen), see Ginsberg, Allen

Acheson, Dean, 492

Acis, 72

Adam, 335, 342, 361, 368, 559

Adam Longhair, see Adam

Adams, Sherman, 202, see n.

Adonaeus, 710

Adonais, 217, 615

Adonis, 136

Agnew, Spiro, 594, 614

Ahab, Captain, 563

Aiken, George D., 406, see n.

Alan, see White, J. Alan

Alexander the Great, 745

Alexander, Holmes, 406

Alice in Wonderland, 222

Allah, 402, 404, 415, 622, 623, 624, 697

Allen, see Ginsberg, Allen

Altgeld, John P., 222, see n.

Amitendranath Tagore, 607

Amter, Israel, 155, see n.

Anacreon, 369, 600

Anderson, Senator, 386

Andy (Warhol), 654

Angelico, Beato, 236

Ann, see Buchanan, Ann

Anna (Ginsberg), 664

Anne (Murphy), 341

Ansen, Alan, 106, 186

Antinous, 236

Antoinette, Marie, 556

Apollinaire, Guillaume (William), 188, 528

Apollinaire de Kostrowitsky, Guillaume, see Apollinaire, Guillaume

Apollo, 34, 190, 602

Arafat, Yasir, 623

Ardinarishvara, 602, see n.

Arhat, 98, see n.

Artaud, Antonin, 177, 189

Arthur, Gavin, 443, see n.

Ashbery, John, 725

Astapheus, 710

Avalokitesvara, 316, 321, 324, see n.

Avrum, Svul (Irwin Allen), see Ginsberg,

Allen

Ayatollah, 753

Babaji, 561

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 159, 360

Baez, Joan, 381, 507

Baghavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, 461

Baldwin, Hanson, 498, 499, 500

Balabanoff, Angelica, 288, see n.

Balzac, Honore de, 185

Bara, Theda, 385

Barbara (Rubin), 537

Bartleby, 78

Baruch, Bernard, 285

Batman, 475, 481

Baudelaire, Charles, 74, 81, 276

Baudouin, King, 478

Beach Boys, The, 476, 527

Beatles, The, 379, 382, 387, 527, 552

Beaverbrook, Lord, 179

Beckett, Samuel, 353

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 745, 748, 749

Ben-Gurion, David, 623

Bhaktivedanta Swami, 518, 600, 610, see n.

Bill, see Burroughs, William S.

Bimbisara, 306

Black, Phil, 185

Blake, William, 14, 146, 172, 196, 212, 246, 305, 309, 355, 362, 415, 434, 474, 550, 561, 600, 603, 610, 631, 685

Blitzer, Sylvia, 725

Blok, Alexander, 177

Bloor, Mother (Ella Reeve), 155, see n.

Blow, Joe, see Ginsberg, Allen

Bly, Robert, 532

Bodhidharma, 475, see n.

Boehme, Jakob, 550

Boito, Arrigo, 236

Bond, Julian, 666

Borah, Senator, 224

Bozzo, Joe, 601, see n.

Bradley, 386

Brahma, 548, 602

Brakefield, Private, 546