An edition of Mind Breaths (1977)

Mind Breaths: Poems 1972-1977

poems, 1972-1977

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An edition of Mind Breaths (1977)

Mind Breaths: Poems 1972-1977

poems, 1972-1977

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  • 1 Currently reading
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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 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 snowballs, 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.

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Cover of: Mind breaths
Mind breaths: poems, 1972-1977.
1977, City Lights Books
in English
Cover of: Mind Breaths
Mind Breaths: Pocket Poets Number 35
01 September 1977, City Lights Publishers
paperback
Cover of: Mind Breaths: Poems 1972-1977
Mind Breaths: Poems 1972-1977: poems, 1972-1977
01 September 1977, City Lights Publishers
Cover of: Mind breaths
Mind breaths: poems, 1972-1977
1977, City Lights Books
in English
Cover of: Mind Breaths
Mind Breaths
Publish date unknown, City Lights Books
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San Francisco
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Pocket Poets Number 35

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Pagination
123 p. : ill., music ; 16 cm.
Number of pages
123

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OL21495761M
ISBN 10
0872860922
LCCN
77000541
Library Thing
216984
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154380

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August 19, 2021 Edited by therewasnomonster Edited without comment.
August 19, 2021 Edited by therewasnomonster I just add a few things about the book and the poet.
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