''Mind Breaths'' is a book of
poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...
by
Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Gener ...
published by
City Lights Publishers
City Lights is an independent bookstore-publisher combination in San Francisco, California, that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics. It also houses the nonprofit City Lights Foundation, which publishes selected ti ...
. It contains poems written by Ginsberg between 1972 and 1977.
Some of these poems include:
*"Ayers Rock Uluru Song" (about
Uluru
Uluru (; pjt, Uluṟu ), also known as Ayers Rock ( ) and officially Gazette#Gazette as a verb, gazetted as UluruAyers Rock, is a large sandstone geological formation, formation in the centre of Australia. It is in the southern part of the ...
, or Ayers Rock)
*"Under the World There's a Lot of Ass"
*"On Neruda's Death" (about
Pablo Neruda
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nerud ...
)
*"Sweet Boy, Gimme Yr Ass"
*"Sad Dust Glories"
*"Ego Confessions"
*"Jaweh and Allah Battle"
*"Mugging"
*"We Rise on Sunbeams and Fall in the Night" (about the death of
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism.
In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pedia ...
)
*"
Hadda Be Playing on the Jukebox
"Hadda be Playin' on the Jukebox" is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1975. The "Hadda" of the poem is Hadda Brooks (October 29, 1916 – November 21, 2002), the American pianist, vocalist and composer, who was billed as "Queen of the Boogie".
...
"
*"Rolling Thunder Stones"
*"Don't Grow Old"
*"Contest of Bards"
References
{{Allen Ginsberg
Poetry by Allen Ginsberg
Beat poetry
American poetry collections
1978 poetry books
City Lights Publishers books