Planet News
10 best books like Planet News (Allen Ginsberg): The Spice-Box of Earth, Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle, Pictures of the Gone World, How I Became Hettie Jones, The Horn, Complete Poems of Stephen Crane, Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments, The Back Country, Women Poets of Japan, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
| Author | Leonard Cohen |
| ISBN | 0224006495 |
This is the second book of Cohen's poetry and it is filled with his unique brand of religion and sexuality, the sacred and the profane. One of the fascinating aspects of Leonard Cohen's poetry has been its elasticity and it's interesting to see how it has evolved over the years; you only have to look at the...
| Author | Gregory Corso |
| ISBN | 0872860884 |
A good collection from one of the more undervalued Beat poets. Corso has strong merits, but his work comes across as darker and more pessimistic than others, and does not speak to me in the way that Ferlinghetti does or (to a lesser extent) Ginsberg. Much as "Howl" was in many ways Ginsberg's defining poem,...
| Author | Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| ISBN | 0872863034 |
Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955.
It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The original edition contained the first twenty-seven...
| Author | Hettie Jones |
| ISBN | 0802134963 |
Greenwich Village in the 1950s was a haven to which young poets, painters, and jazz musicians flocked. Among them was Hettie Cohen, who'd been born into a middle-class Jewish family in Queens and who'd chosen to cross racial barriers to marry the controversial black poet LeRoi Jones. Theirs was a bohemian...
| Author | John Clellon Holmes |
| ISBN | 1560252065 |
Art in Evolution
In my childhood, it was customary for my parents to bring my brother and me to the French Market on Sundays to buy our weekly produce. It was on one of these occasions I heard the most amazing music. The song emitted through a radio owned by the man selling Creole tomatoes. I lingered...
| Author | Stephen Crane |
| ISBN | 0801491304 |
This book makes available for the first time in paperback all of Stephen Crane's poetry. The 134 poems, critically edited from manuscripts and printed sources according to modern textual principles, are arranged in chronological order. They include the poems published during Crane's lifetime...
| Author | Elizabeth Bishop |
| ISBN | 0374530769 |
From the mid-1930s to 1978 Elizabeth Bishop published some ninety poems and thirty translations. Yet her notebooks reveal that she embarked upon many more compositions, some existing in only fragmentary form and some embodied in extensive drafts. Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box presents, alongside...
| Author | Gary Snyder |
| ISBN | 0811201945 |
This collection is made up of four sections: "Far West"—poems of the Western mountain country where, as a young man. Gary Snyder worked as a logger and forest ranger; "Far East"—poems written between 1956 and 1964 in Japan where he studied Zen at the monastery in Kyoto; "Kali"—poems inspired...
| Author | Ikuko Atsumi |
| ISBN | 0811208206 |
In this collection (originally published by The Seabury Press in 1977 as The Burning Heart, Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi have assembled representative works of seventy-seven poets. Staring with the Classical Period (645-1604 A.D.), characterized by the wanka and tanka styles,followed by...
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
| ISBN | 0872862917 |
These classic Kerouac meditations, zen koans, and prose poems express the poet’s beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe.
"The Scripture of the Golden Eternity is fueled by Kerouac's discerning meditation on the nature of impermanence & consciousness,...
| Author | Thom Gunn |
| ISBN | 0374524335 |
The first of the poems in Thom Gunn’s Collected to really knock me out appears half way through his second book, The Sense of Movement (1957). In the poem, “To Yvor Winters, 1955,” Gunn pays homage to his former teacher with a portrait of the Stanford professor that compares his training of Airedale...
| Author | Adrienne Rich |
| ISBN | 0393310825 |
The book includes two extraordinary longer works: the self-exploratory "Sources" and "Contradictions—Tracking Poems," an ongoing index of an American woman's life.
The poet writes, "In these poems I have been trying to speak from, and of, and to, my country. To speak of a different...
| Author | Yevgeny Yevtushenko |
An important collection of poems, if a little on the slim side, from one of the greats to emerge from the Soviet Union (whom I didn't realise had died only last year). Two poems in particular are highly political, the long memoir, 'Zima Station' which connects his daily life and trip back home to sub-zero...
| Author | Barry Miles |
| ISBN | 0753504863 |
Allen Ginsberg occupies a significant, enduring position in American literature. Following his death in '97, Barry Miles has drawn on both his long friendship with the poet & on Ginsberg's journals & correspondence to produce an immensely readable account of one of the 20th century's most...
| Author | Charles Bukowski |
| ISBN | 0753507986 |
Okay. I had read this book before and didn't write a review on it. Bad me, I know. And actually it is a bad me because although the poetry is excellent and reflexive of his later works, I continued to have the haunting feeling I had read some of them somewhere before. Although there are many excellent poems,...
