Death & Fame

by Ginsberg, Allen; Rosenthal, Bob; Hale, Peter; Morgan, Bill; Creeley, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780060192921
• ISBN10: 0060192925
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-29
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Famous for energizing the Beat Generation literary movement upon his historic encounter with Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs in mid-century New York City, Ginsberg influenced several generations of writers, musicians, and poets. This volume of final poems commemorates the anniversary of Ginsberg's death, and includes the verses he wrote in the years shortly before he died.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xv
New Democracy Wish List	p. 1
Peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina	p. 4
After the Party	p. 6
After Olav H. Hauge	p. 7
These knowing age	p. 8
C'mon Pigs of Western Civilization Eat More Grease	p. 9
Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush	p. 11
Tuesday Morn	p. 12
God	p. 14
Ah War	p. 15
Excrement	p. 16
New Stanzas for Amazing Grace	p. 18
City Lights City	p. 19
Newt Gingrich Declares War on "McGovernik Counterculture"	p. 20
Pastel Sentences (Selections)	p. 21
Nazi Capish	p. 25
Is About	p. 27
The Ballad of the Skeletons	p. 29
"You know what I'm saying?"	p. 34
Bowel Song	p. 35
Popular Tunes	p. 36
Five A.M.	p. 38
Power	p. 39
Anger	p. 40
Multiple Identity Questionnaire	p. 41
Don't Get Angry with Me	p. 42
Swan Songs in the Present	p. 43
Gone Gone Gone	p. 44
Reverse the rain of Terror	p. 46
Sending Message	p. 48
No! No! It's Not the End	p. 50
Bad Poem	p. 53
Homeless Compleynt	p. 54
Happy New Year Robert and June	p. 55
Diamond Bells	p. 56
Virtual Impunity Blues	p. 57
Waribashi	p. 58
Good Luck	p. 59
Some Little Boys Dont	p. 60
Jacking Off	p. 61
Think Tank Rhymes	p. 62
Song of the Washing Machine	p. 63
World Bank Blues	p. 64
Richard III	p. 67
Death and Fame	p. 68
Sexual Abuse	p. 71
Butterfly Mind	p. 72
A fellow named Steven	p. 73
Half Asleep	p. 74
Objective Subject	p. 75
Kerouac	p. 76
Hepatitis, Body Itch	p. 77
Whitmanic Poem	p. 78
American Sentences 1995-1997	p. 79
Variations on Ma Rainey's See See Rider	p. 82
Sky Words	p. 83
Scatalogical Observations	p. 85
My Team Is Red Hot	p. 87
Starry Rhymes	p. 88
Thirty State Bummers	p. 89
"I have a nosebleed ..."	p. 94
"Timmy made a hot milk"	p. 94
"This kind of Hepatitis can cause ya"	p. 94
"Giddy-yup giddy-yup giddy-yap"	p. 94
"Turn on the heat and take a seat"	p. 95
Bop Sh'bam	p. 96
Dream	p. 97
Things I'll Not Do (Nostalgias)	p. 98
Afterword	p. 101
Notes	p. 105
Index of Titles and First Lines	p. 113
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