| Description |
xx, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Penguin poets |
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Penguin poets.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-307). |
| Contents |
The Road-Runner -- Homage to Lucretius -- "Plus Ca Change ..." -- If You're So Smart, Why Ain't You Rich? -- The Slop Barrel: Slices of the Paideuma for All Sentient Beings -- Sourdough Mountain Lookout -- Further Notice -- Souffle -- Literary Life in the Golden West -- 10:x:57, 45 Years Since the Fall of the Ch'ing Dynasty -- For My Father -- Metaphysical Insomnia Jazz. Mumonkan xxix -- 20:vii:58, On Which I Renounce the Notion of Social Responsibility -- Hymnus Ad Patrem Sinensis -- Complaint: To the Muse -- Prose Take-Out, Portland, 13:ix:58 -- Self-Portrait Sad, 22:ix:58 -- Something Nice About Myself -- Take, 25:iii:59 -- A Distraction Fit -- Haiku for Mike -- Address to the Boobus, with her Hieratic Formulas in Reply -- Boobus Hierophante, Her Incantations -- To the Moon -- Song for 2 Balalaikas on the Corner of 3rd & Market -- Since You Ask Me -- To a Poet -- An Irregular Ode -- Haiku, for Gary Snyder -- A Vision of the Bodhisattvas -- Dream -- Historical Disquisitions -- Dream & Excursus, Arlington Massachusetts -- For Albert Saijo -- Homage to Rodin -- The Daydream -- That One -- Vector Analysis -- One of My Favorite Songs Is Stormy Weather -- Friendship Greetings -- Early Autumn in Upper Noe Valley -- The Chariot -- Song to Begin Rohatsu -- Spring Musick -- For Brother Antoninus -- Life and Death and a Letter to My Mother Beyond Them Both -- Plums, Metaphysics, an Investigation, a Visit, and a Short Funeral Ode -- Three Mornings -- Raging Desire & c -- The Fourth of October, 1963 -- Inside Stuff -- Native Speech -- Composition -- The Lotus Sutra, Naturalized -- Early Spring -- The Metaphysical Town Hall and Bookshop -- The Ode to Music -- Goddess -- True Confessions -- The Preface -- Bleakness, Farewell -- Homage to William Seward Burroughs -- Dear Mr. President -- Japanese Tea Garden Golden Gate Park in Spring -- "A Penny for the Old Guy" -- Mahayana -- Love Love Love Again -- April Showers Bring Rain? -- A Morning Walk -- "The Sun Rises and Sets in That Child," so my grandmother used to say -- "California Is Odius but Indispensable" -- Imagination of the Taj Mahal -- T/O -- That Eyes! Those Nose! -- M -- The Life of Literature -- America! -- Giant Sequoias -- L'Enfant Prodigue -- Good News and Gospel -- Palimpsest -- Labor Day -- Sad Song -- Lemon Trees -- EAMD -- Walking -- 3 Days Ago -- 5th Position -- Ginkakuji Michi -- Sanjusangendo -- Crowded -- White River Ode -- A Revolution -- The War Poem for Diane di Prima -- The Garden -- Confession and Penance -- The Grand Design -- Success Is Failure -- The Winter -- The Winter for Burton Watson -- "NEFAS" -- All of it went on the wrong page -- The Dharma Youth League -- Failing -- A Romantic & Beautiful Poem Inspired by the Recollection of William Butler Yeats, His Life & Work -- International Date Line, Monday / Monday 27:XI:67 -- America Inside & Outside Bill Brown's House in Bolinas -- Life in the City. In Memoriam Edward Gibbon -- Allegorical Painting: Capitalistic Society Destroyed by the Contradictions Within Itself. (Second Five-Year Plan.) -- To the Revolutionary Cadres of Balboa, Malibu & Santa Barbara -- Duerden's Garage, Stinson Beach -- Walking Beside the Kamogawa, Remembering Nansen and Fudo and Gary's Poem -- Behind the Door -- Life at Bolinas. The Last of California -- Birthday Poem -- Excerpts from "Scenes of Life at the Capital" -- Many Colored Squares -- "Up in Michigan" -- "Old Age Echoes" -- The Letter to Thomas Clark 22:VII:71 from Bolinas where He Sat beside Me to Help to Write It -- "Horrible Incredible Lies": Keith Lampe Spontaneously -- Imaginary Splendors -- Public Opinions -- Monument Rescue Dim -- The Turn -- Look Look Look -- "I Told Myself": Bobbie Spontaneously -- Growing and Changing -- October First -- Occasional Dilemmas -- Ode for You -- Alleyway -- In the Night -- "Stolen and Abandoned" -- Tassajara -- The Universal & Susquehanna Mercy Co. Dayton, O. -- Message -- High-tension on Low-pressure Non-accomplishment Blues -- Mask -- Detachment, Wisdom and Compassion -- Money Is the Roost of All Eagles -- "The Conditions That Prevail" -- The Talking Picture -- Dream Poems -- Murals Not Yet Dreamed -- The Vision of Delight -- Luxury in August -- How to Be Successful & Happy Without Anybody Else Finding Out About It -- Compulsive Obligatory Paranoia Flashes -- For Clark Coolidge -- The Radio Again -- Somebody Else's Problem Bothers Me -- Bead -- Defective Circles -- Obsolete Models -- Many Pages Must Be Thrown Away -- The Congress of Vienna -- To the Memory Of -- "Past Ruin'd Ilion" -- Tears and Recriminations -- Discriminations -- Homage to St. Patrick, Garcia Lorca, and the Itinerant Grocer -- What About It? -- Treading More Water -- Treading Water -- What? Writing in the Dining Room? -- What's New? -- Violins in Chaos? -- The Bay Trees Were About to Bloom -- Dying Tooth Song -- Rich Interior, After Thomas Mann -- Chanson d'Outre Tombe -- Hot Springs Infernal in the Human Beast -- Homage to Hart Crane -- What Are You Studying, These Days? -- Dharmakaya -- Some of These Days -- Epigrams and Imitations -- For Allen, on His 60th Birthday. |
| Summary |
Philip Whalen played a key role in the explosive poetic revolution of the fifties and sixties, and, like his college roommate Gary Snyder, took both poetry and Zen seriously. An original troubadour and thinker - confidant and ally to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Michael McClure - he is celebrated for his wisdom, honesty, daring, and good humor. Taken as a whole, Whalen's writing forms a monumental stream of consciousness (or, as he calls it, "continuous nerve movie") of a wild, deeply read, and fiercely independent American - one who refuses to belong, who glorifies the small beauties found everywhere he looks. Whalen transformed the poem for a generation. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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| Added Author |
Rothenberg, Michael.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Whalen, Philip. Overtime. New York : Penguin Books, 1999 (OCoLC)607150093 |
| ISBN |
014058918X |
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9780140589184 |
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