Back
Mind Breaths cover
1977•123 pages•Published•ENG•User Reviews

Mind Breaths

3.0/ 5
1 ratings

About This Book

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.

Track Your Reading

Sign in to save this book, track pages, log finished reads and rereads, and build your Reading Diary.

Sign In

Community Reviews

Reviews

Browse all reviews →
Sign in to review

No reviews yet. Be the first.

1970s poetryBeat Generation poetsBeat poetryconfessional poetryelegaic poetrypoetry inspired by Buddhismpoetry of meditationPoetry (poetic works by one author)

The Swinging Light

Book Details

First Published

1977

Pages

123 pages

Rating

3.0 / 5

Ratings

1

Editions

5

Publisher

City Lights Books

Language

ENG

Status

Published

The People Behind The Book

Authors

You May Also Like

Recommended Books

The beats cover

The beats

2009

Harvey Pekar, Paul Buhle, Ed Piskor

Howl cover

Howl

1959

Allen Ginsberg