White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985

This new collection of poems by Allen Ginsberg was the winner of Yugoslavia's Struga Poetry Festival "Golden Wreath" in 1986. The title poem, "White Shroud," is a dream apparition, a bittersweet epilogue to the poet's "Kaddish," the elegy written 25 years ago for his mother. The volume also contains a series of poems Ginsberg wrote during a trip to the People's Republic of China in 1984. Among the poetic modes he experiments with are: political rock-and-roll lyrics and rap; surreal anecdotes; Eastern "doha" and precise American haikus; vivid erotic narratives; heroic couplets; national blues; danceable instruction for classic Buddhist sitting meditation; descriptive sketches; and rhymeless sonnet.