Plutonian Ode: And Other Poems 1977-1980 (Pocket Poets, #40)

by Allen Ginsberg

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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 chronologies 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...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780872861251
  • Publish Date 12 February 1981 (first published 1 January 1981)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 8 June 2010
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint City Lights Books
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 112
  • Language English