Snow-blizzard sowing, 516
Snow mountain fields, 620
Some breath breathes out Adonais & Canto General, 615
Some Little Boys Dont (D&F), 1122
Some little boys like it (D&F), 1122
Some live on islands, hills near Trondheim (D&F), 1069
Some Love (PO), 730
Something evil about you Mr. Viguerie Mr. Falwell (WS), 917
Some think the love of boys is wicked in the world, (WS), 856
Sometime I’ll lay down my wrath, 38
Sometime Jailhouse Blues (GW), 38
Sometimes when my eyes are red, 209
Song (Howl), 119
Song of the Washing Machine (D&F), 1125
Sonora Desert-Edge (Fall), 530
Soul to crotch the streets commit hara-kiri, (CG), 1025
Sphincter (CG), 950
Spot Anger (CG), 951
Spring Fashions (PO), 727
Squeal (RS), 173
Stage-lit streets, 383
Stand up against governments, against God. (CG), 954
Stanzas: Written at Night in Radio City (GW), 35
Starry Rhymes (D&F), 1150
Starting with eyeball kicks, 124
Still night. The old clock Ticks, 309
Stool Pigeon Blues (PO), 690
Stopping on the bus from Novi Pazar in the rain, 750
Stotras to Kali Destroyer of Illusions (PN), 298
Straight and slender, 737
Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, 217
Student Love (WS), 896
Students danced with wooden silvered swords, (WS), 903
Studying the Signs (PN), 371
Sunday Prayer (WS), 886
Sunflower Sutra (Howl), 146
Sunrise dazzles the eye (D&F), 1145
Sun rises east (D&F), 1150
Sunset (EM), 45
Sunset S.S. Azemour (PN), 295
Supplication for the Rebirth of the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa (CG), 1009
Surprise Mind (WS), 895
Swan Songs In the Present (D&F), 1105
“Swan songs in the present (D&F), 1105
Sweet Boy, Gimme Yr Ass (MB), 621
Sweet Levinsky (GW), 27
Sweet Levinsky in the night, 27
Swirls of black dust on Avenue D (Fall), 510
Switch on lights yellow as the sun, 465
Take a pee pee take a Bum (D&F), 1151
Take my love, it is not true, 25
Tears (RS), 159
Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber (PN), 280
“τεθνάκην δ’ όλίγω ’πιδενης ϕαίόμ’ άλαία” (PO), 743
Teton Village (MB), 620
That tree said I don’t like that white car under me, (WS), 849
That which pushes upward, 434
The air is dark, the night is sad, 19
The Archetype Poem (EM), 69
The Ballad of the Skeletons (D&F), 1091
The Blue Angel (EM), 62
The boy’s fresh faced, 18, big smile (WS), 896
The Bricklayer’s Lunch Hour (EM), 12
The Change: Kyoto–Tokyo Express (PN), 332
The Charnel Ground (CG), 1038
The death’s head of realism, 40
The delicate french girl jukebox husky lament, 431
The 18 year old marine “had made his Peace with God.” (D&F), 1076
The End (Kaddish), 267
The Eye Altering Alters All (GW), 15
The fact is, the Russians are sissies (WS), 869
The first I looked on, after a long time far from home, 194
The first time I went, 75
The flower in the glass peanut bottle formerly in the kitchen, 148
The Green Automobile (RS), 91
The Guest (WS), 918
The Lama sat (CG), 1042
The Lion for Real (Kaddish), 182
The Little Fish Devours the Big Fish (WS), 865
The method must be purest meat, 122
The mind is like a butterfly (D&F), 1134
The Moments Return (PN), 360
The music of the spheres—that ends in Silence, 208
The Names (SHD), 184
The New Right’s a creepy pre-Fascist fad (WS), 845
The Night-Apple (EM), 60
The night café—4 A.M., 100
The N Power, the feminine power (D&F), 1101
The old pond—a frog jumps in, kerplunk, 715
The Old Village Before I Die, 433
The Olympics have descended into, 357
The Question (WS), 897
There is more to Fury, 57
The Reply (Kaddish), 265
There was a bulge in my right side, this dream recently— (D&F), 1159
There was this character come in, 68
These are the names of the companies that have made money, 494
These days steal everything (CG), 1016
These knowing age (D&F), 1070
These knowing age (D&F), 1070
These psalms are the workings of the vision haunted mind, 26
These spectres resting on plastic stools, 358
These States: into L.A. (Fall), 384
These States: to Miami Presidential Convention (PAOTP), 590
The Shrouded Stranger (EM), 55
The Shrouded Stranger (GW), 34
The Shroudy Stranger’s reft of realms, 55
The Terms in Which I Think of Reality (EM), 58
The Trembling of the Veil (EM), 22
The Voice of Rock (GW), 18
The Warrior is afraid, 738
The weight of the world, 119
The whitewashed room, roof, 301
The whole, 671
The whole blear world, 45
The wrathful East of smoke and iron, 46
They are sending a message to the youth of America (D&F), 1110
The young kid, horror buff, monster Commissar, ghoul connoisseur, (CG), 960
They’re All Phantoms of My Imagining (WS), 888
345 W. 15th St. (AE), 81
Things I Don’t Know (WS), 926
Things I’ll Not Do (Nostalgias) (D&F), 1160
think tank (D&F), 1124
Think Tank Rhymes (D&F), 1124
Thirty State Bummers (D&F), 1151
This Form of Life Needs Sex (PN), 292
This Is About Death (EM), 43
This is the creature I am, 440
This is the one and only, 41
“This kind of Hepatitis can cause ya” (D&F), 1156
This silver anniversary much hair’s gone from my head (CG), 984
Those high lunches needn’t matter (WS), 887
Those Two (WS), 849
Thoughts on a Breath (PAOTP), 637
Thoughts Sitting Breathing (MB), 597
Thoughts Sitting Breathing II (WS), 878
3,489 friendly people, 532
“Throw Out the Yellow Journalists of Bad Grammar & Terrible Manner” (WS), 873
Thus crosslegged on round pillow sat in Teton Space, 617
Time comes spirit weakens and goes blank, 184
“Timmy made a hot milk” (D&F), 1156
Tiny orange-wing-tipped butterfly, 567
To an Old Poet in Peru (RS), 247
To Aunt Rose (Kaddish), 192
Today (PN), 353
Today out of the window, 22
Toenail-thickening age on me, (D&F), 1129
To God: to illuminate all men. Beginning with Skid Road, 163
To Jacob Rabinowitz (CG), 972
To Lindsay (Kaddish), 191
To Mexico! To Mexico! Down the dovegray highway, 167
Tompkins Square Lower East Side N.Y. (CG), 1048
Tonite all is well (EM), 40
Tonite I got hi in the window of my apartment, 243
Tonite I walked out of my red apartment door, 633
Too much industry, 734
To PO. (IJ), 301
> To Poe: Over the Planet, Air Albany–Baltimore (Fall), 522
To the Body (PN), 439
To the Punks of Dawlish (PO), 729
… touch of vocal flattery, 365
Transcription of Organ Music (Howl), 148
Tübingen–Hamburg Schlafwagen (PO), 736
Tuesday Morn (D&F), 1074
Turn me on your knees, 657
“Turn on the heat & take a seat” (D&F), 1157
Turn Right Next Corner, 402
Twenty-eight years before on the living room couch, 718
22,000 feet over Hazed square Vegetable planet Floor, 514
Two Boys Went Into a Dream Diner (EM), 63
Two bricklayers are setting the walls, 12
Two Dreams (MB), 655
221 Syllables at Rocky Mountain Dharma Center (WS), 883
Two Sonnets (GW), 13
Ugh! the planet screams, 345
Under orders to shoot the spy, I discharged, 520
Under silver wing, 507
Understand That This Is a Dream (Air Dreams), 311
Under the bluffs of Oroville, blue cloud September skies, 377
Under the world there’s a lot of ass, a lot of cunt (MB), 606
Upstairs Jenny crashed her car & became a living corpse, (CG), 1038
Uptown (PN), 432
up up and away, 390
Vachel, the stars are out, 191
Variations on Ma Rainey’s See See Rider (D&F), 1144
Velocity of Money (CG), 949
Verses Written for Student Antidraft Registration Rally 1980 (PO), 738
Violate me (CG), 1033
Violence (Fall), 511
Violent Collaborations (CG), 1033
Virtual Impunity Blues (D&F), 1119
Vision 1948 (GW), 16
Visiting Father & Friends (CG), 941
Voznesensky’s “Silent Tingling” (PAOTP), 588
Vulture Peak: Gridhakuta Hill (PN), 306
Waking in New York (PN), 347
Wales Visitation (PN), 488
Walking at night on asphalt campus, 305
Walking home at night (EM), 78
Walking with aching back at base of spine, walked stiffly to kitchen toilet to pee, (D&F), 1074
Walk into your local Japanese restaurant Teriyaki Boy— (D&F), 1120
Waribashi (D&F), 1120
War Profit Litany (Fall), 494
Watching the White Image, electric moon, white mist, 535
We children, we (D&F), 1140
We know all about death that, 42
We’re in the Great Place, Fable Place, Beulah, Man wedded to Earth, 525
We Rise on Sun Beams and Fall in the Night (MB), 640
Western Air boat bouncing, 566
Westward Mother-mountains drift Pacific, green-sloped canyons, 512
What do I hear in my ear (D&F), 1098
What do I want in these rooms papered, 48
Whatever it may be whoever it may be, 308
What Id Like to Do (MB), 610
What new element before us unborn in nature, 710
What’s Dead? (PO), 697
What the Sea Throws Up at Vlissingen (WS), 880
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, 144
“What would you do if you lost it?” (MB), 600
“What You Up To?” (WS), 870
When he kissed my nipple, 544
When I die (D&F), 1130
When I died, love, when I died, 21
When I lie down to sleep dream the Wishing Well it rings, 352
When I sat in my bedroom for devotions, meditations & prayers (WS), 878
When I sit before a paper, 37
When I think of death, 50
When Schwarzkopf’s Father busted Iran’s Mossadegh (CG), 1002
When that dress-gray, gray haired and gray-faced (WS), 897
When the Light Appears (CG), 965
When the red pond fills fish appear, 587
When the troops get their poop (WS), 865
Where O America are you, 73
White fog lifting & falling on mountain-brow, 488
white haze over Manhattan’s towers, 510
White light’s wet glaze on asphalt city floor, 371
White marble pillars in the Rector’s courtyard, 748
White Shroud (WS), 889
White sunshine on sweating skulls, 549
Whitmanic Poem (D&F), 1140
Who (PAOTP), 603
Who am I? Saliva, 565
Who Be Kind To (PN), 367
Who Eats Who? (CG), 1037
Who is the shroudy stranger of the night, 39
Who is this Slave Master makes me answer letters in his name (WS), 882
Whom bomb, 576
Whom bomb? (CG), 1004
who report Ten Commandments & Golden Rule (WS), 873
Who represents my body in Pentagon? Who spends, 491
Who Runs America? (MB), 636
Who showed up? (D&F), 1123
Who Will Take Over the Universe? (PN), 273
Why am I so angry at Kissinger, 736
Why do I deny manna to another, 150
Why I Meditate (WS), 851
Why Is God Love, Jack? (PN), 343
Wichita Vortex Sutra (PN), 402
Wild Orphan (Howl), 86
Wind mills churn on Windy City’s, 641
Wings Lifted over the Black Pit (Fall), 435
With oil that streaks streets a magic color, 700
With the blue-dark dome old-starred at night, 297
With Virtual impunity Clinton got campaign funds from pink Chinese (D&F), 1119
World Bank Blues (D&F), 1126
World Karma (WS), 913
World world world, 179
Written in My Dream by W. C. Williams (WS), 901
Written on Hotel Napkin: Chicago Futures (MB), 641
Wrote This Last Night (RS), 174
Xmas Gift (MB), 595
Yellow-lit Budweiser signs over oaken bars, 432
Yes all the spiritual groups scandal the shrine room (CG), 984
Yes and It’s Hopeless (MB), 604
yes it’s gone gone gone (D&F), 1106
Yiddishe Kopf (CG), 1012
You Don’t Know It (CG), 943
“You know what I’m saying?” (D&F), 1096
You’ll bare your bones you’ll grow you’ll pray you’ll only know (CG), 966
“You Might Get in Trouble” (PAOTP), 668
Young I drank beer & vomited green bile (WS), 872
Young romantic readers (D&F), 1147
Your electric hair’s beautiful gold as Blake’s Glad Day boy, 729
You said you got to go home & feed your pussycat, 658
Youthful, caressing, boisterous, tender (WS), 900
You used to wear dungarees & blue workshirt, 725
You’ve been coughing for weeks (D&F), 1097
You were here on earth, in cities, 626
About the Author
Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1926, a son of Naomi and lyric poet Louis Ginsberg. As a student at Columbia College in the 1940s, he began a close friendship with William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and Jack Kerouac, and he later became associated with the Beat movement and the San Francisco Renaissance in the 1950s. After jobs as a laborer, sailor, and market researcher, Ginsberg published his first volume of poetry, Howl and Other Poems, in 1956. Howl defeated censorship trials to become one of the most widely read poems of the century, translated into more than twenty-two languages, from Macedonian to Chinese, a model for younger generations of poets from West to East.
Crowned Prague May King in 1965, then expelled by Czech police and simultaneously placed on the FBI’s Dangerous Security list, Ginsberg traveled to and taught in the People’s Republic of China, the Soviet Union, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe, receiving Yugoslavia’s Struga Poetry Festival “Golden Wreath” in 1986.
Ginsberg was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, was awarded
the medal of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French minister of culture, was a winner of the National Book Award (for The Fall of America), and was a cofounder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute, the first accredited Buddhist college in the Western world. He died in New York City in 1997.
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ALSO BY ALLEN GINSBERG
POETRY
Howl and Other Poems, 1956
Kaddish and Other Poems, 1961
Empty Mirror, Early Poems, 1961
Reality Sandwiches, 1963
Planet News, 1968
The Fall of America, Poems of These States, 1972
The Gates of Wrath: Rhymed Poems 1948–52, 1973
Iron Horse, 1973
First Blues, 1975
Mind Breaths, Poems 1971–76, 1978
Plutonian Ode, Poems 1977–1980, 1982
Collected Poems 1947–1980, 1984
White Shroud, Poems 1980–1985, 1986
Cosmopolitan Greetings, Poems 1986–1992, 1994
Selected Poems 1947–1995, 1996
Death & Fame: Poems 1993–1997, 1999
PROSE
The Yage Letters (with William Burroughs), 1963
Indian Journals, 1970, 1996
Gay Sunshine Interview (with Allen Young), 1974
Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry, Politics, Consciousness, 1974
Chicago Trial Testimony, 1975
To Eberhart from Ginsberg, 1976
As Ever: Collected Correspondence Allen Ginsberg & Neal Cassady, 1977
Neal Cassady, 1977
Journals Early Fifties Early Sixties 1977, 1993
Composed on the Tongue: Literary Conversations 1967–1977, 1980
Straight Hearts Delight, Love Poems and Selected Letters 1947–1980 (with Peter Orlovsky), 1980
Howl, Original Draft Facsimile, Fully Annotated, 1986, 1995
The Visions of the Great Rememberer (with Visions of Cody, Jack Kerouac), 1993
Journals Mid-Fifties: 1954–1958, 1994
Luminous Dreams, 1997
Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays 1952–1995, 2000
Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958–1996, 2001
PHOTOGRAPHY
Photographs, 1991
Snapshot Poetics, 1993
VOCAL WORDS & MUSIC
First Blues, 1981, 2006
The Lion For Real, 1989, 1996
Howls, Raps & Roars, 1993
Hydrogen Jukebox (opera with Philip Glass), 1993
Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Poems & Songs 1949–1993, 1994
The Ballad of the Skeletons, with Paul McCartney, Philip Glass, 1996
Howl, U.S.A., Kronos Quartet, Lee Hyla score, 1996