CollectedPoems1947-1997

ALLEN GINSBERG COLLECTED POEMS 1947–1997 Collected Poems 1947–1997 is a compilation of the texts of Collected Poems 1947–1980, White Shroud: Poems 1980–1985, Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986–1992, and Death & Fame: Poems 1993–1997. The Estate would like to express gratitude to Eliot Katz for his dedication and assistance in preparation of this manuscript, Danny Mulligan at HarperCollins for attentive coordinating, and Jeffrey Posternak at the Wylie Agency for his tireless intermediation. Contents COLLECTED POEMS 1947–1980 Author’s Preface, Reader’s Manual I. EMPTY MIRROR: GATES OF WRATH (1947–1952) In Society The Bricklayer’s Lunch Hour Two Sonnets On Reading William Blake’s “The Sick Rose” The Eye Altering Alters All A Very Dove Vision 1948 Do We Understand Each Other? The Voice of Rock Refrain A Western Ballad The Trembling of the Veil A Meaningless Institution A Mad Gleam Complaint of the Skeleton to Time Psalm I An Eastern Ballad Sweet Levinsky Psalm II Fie My Fum Pull My Daisy The Shrouded Stranger Stanzas: Written at Night in Radio City After All, What Else Is There to Say? Sometime Jailhouse B......