{"product_id":"overtime-selected-poems-isbn-9780140589184","title":"Overtime: Selected Poems","description":"Like his college roommate Gary Snyder, \u003cb\u003ePhilip Whalen\u003c\/b\u003e took both poetry and Zen seriously. He became friends with \u003cb\u003eAllen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eMichael McClure\u003c\/b\u003e, and played a key role in the explosive poetic revolution of the '50s and '60s. Celebrated for his wisdom and good humor, Whalen transformed the poem for a generation. His writing, taken as a whole, forms a monumental stream of consciousness (or, as Whalen calls it, \"continuous nerve movie\") of a wild, deeply read, and fiercely independent American—one who refuses to belong, who celebrates and glorifies the small beauties to be found everywhere he looks. This long-awaited \u003cb\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/b\u003e is a welcome opportunity to hear his influential voice again.OvertimeIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\/The Road-Runner\u003cbr\u003eHomage to Lucretius\u003cbr\u003e\"Plus Ça Change . . .\"\u003cbr\u003eIf You're So Smart, Why Ain't You Rich?\u003cbr\u003eThe Slop Barrel: Slices of the Paideuma for All Sentient Beings\u003cbr\u003eSourdough Mountain Lookout\u003cbr\u003eFurther Notice\u003cbr\u003eSoufflé\u003cbr\u003eLiterary Life in the Golden West\u003cbr\u003e10:x:57, 45 Years Since the Fall of the Ch'ing Dynasty\u003cbr\u003eFor My Father\u003cbr\u003eMetaphysical Insomnia Jazz. Mumonkan xxix.\u003cbr\u003eO:vii:58, On Which I Renounce the Notion of Social Responsibility\u003cbr\u003eHymnus Ad Patrem Sinensis\u003cbr\u003eComplaint: To the Muse\u003cbr\u003eProse Take-Out, Portland, 13:ix:58\u003cbr\u003eSelf-Portrait Sad, 22:ix:58\u003cbr\u003eSomething Nice About Myself\u003cbr\u003eTake, 25:iii:59\u003cbr\u003eA Distraction Fit\u003cbr\u003eHaiku for Mike\u003cbr\u003eAddress to the Boobus, with her Hieratic Formulas in Reply\u003cbr\u003eBoobus Hierophante, Her Incantations\u003cbr\u003eTo the Moon\u003cbr\u003eSong for 2 Balalaikas on the Corner of 3rd \u0026amp; Market\u003cbr\u003eSince You Ask Me\u003cbr\u003eTo a Poet\u003cbr\u003eAn Irregular Ode\u003cbr\u003eHaiku, for Gary Snyder\u003cbr\u003eA Vision of the Bodhisattvas\u003cbr\u003eDream\u003cbr\u003eHistorical Disquisitions\u003cbr\u003eDream \u0026amp; Excursus, Arlington Massachusetts\u003cbr\u003eFor Albert Saijo\u003cbr\u003eHomage to Rodin\u003cbr\u003eThe Daydream\u003cbr\u003eThat One\u003cbr\u003eVector Analysis\u003cbr\u003eOne of My Favorite Songs Is Stormy Weather\u003cbr\u003eFriendship Greetings\u003cbr\u003eEarly Autumn in Upper Noe Valley\u003cbr\u003eThe Chariot\u003cbr\u003eSong to Begin \u003ci\u003eRohatsu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpring Musick\u003cbr\u003eFor Brother Antoninus\u003cbr\u003eLife and Death and a Letter to My Mother Beyond Them Both\u003cbr\u003ePlums, Metaphysics, an Investigation, a Visit, and a Short Funeral Ode\u003cbr\u003eThree Mornings\u003cbr\u003eRaging Desire \u0026amp;c.\u003cbr\u003eThe Fourth of October, 1963\u003cbr\u003eInside Stuff\u003cbr\u003eNative Speech\u003cbr\u003eCompostition\u003cbr\u003eThe Lotus Sutra, Naturalized\u003cbr\u003eEarly Spring\u003cbr\u003eThe Metaphysical Town Hall and Bookshop\u003cbr\u003eThe Ode to Music\u003cbr\u003eGoddess\u003cbr\u003eTrue Confessions\u003cbr\u003eThe Preface\u003cbr\u003eBleakness, Farewell\u003cbr\u003eHomage to William Seward Burroughs\u003cbr\u003eDear Mr President\u003cbr\u003eJapanese Tea Garden Golden Gate Park in Spring\u003cbr\u003e\"A Penny for the Old Guy\"\u003cbr\u003eMahayana\u003cbr\u003eLove Love Love Again\u003cbr\u003eApril Showers Bring Rain?\u003cbr\u003eA Morning Walk\u003cbr\u003e\"The Sun Rises and Sets in That Child,\"  so my grandmother used to say,\u003cbr\u003e\"California Is Odious but Indispensible\"\u003cbr\u003eImagination of the Taj Mahal\u003cbr\u003eT\/O\u003cbr\u003eThat Eyes! Those Nose!\u003cbr\u003eM\u003cbr\u003eThe Life of Literature\u003cbr\u003eAmerica!\u003cbr\u003eGiant Sequoias\u003cbr\u003eL'Enfant Prodigue\u003cbr\u003eGood News and Gospel\u003cbr\u003ePalimpsest\u003cbr\u003eLabor Day\u003cbr\u003eSad Song\u003cbr\u003eLemon Trees\u003cbr\u003eEAMD\u003cbr\u003eWalking\u003cbr\u003e3 Days Ago\u003cbr\u003e5th Position\u003cbr\u003eGinkakuji Michi\u003cbr\u003eSanjusangendo\u003cbr\u003eCrowded\u003cbr\u003eWhite River Ode\u003cbr\u003eA Revolution\u003cbr\u003eThe War Poem for Diane di Prima\u003cbr\u003eThe Garden\u003cbr\u003eConfession and Penance\u003cbr\u003eThe Grand Design\u003cbr\u003eSuccess Is Failure\u003cbr\u003eThe Winter\u003cbr\u003eThe Winter for Burton Watson\u003cbr\u003e\"NEFAS\"\u003cbr\u003eAll of it went on the wrong page\u003cbr\u003eThe Dharma Youth League\u003cbr\u003eFailing\u003cbr\u003eA Romantic \u0026amp; Beautiful Poem Inspired by the Recollection of William Butler Yeats, His Life \u0026amp; Work\u003cbr\u003eInternational Date Line, Monday \/ Monday 27:XI:67\u003cbr\u003eAmerica Inside \u0026amp; Outside Bill Brown's House in Bolinas\u003cbr\u003eLife in the City. In Memoriam Edward Gibbon\u003cbr\u003eAllegorical Painting: Capitalistic Society Destroyed by the Contradictions Within Itself. (Second Five-Year Plan.)\u003cbr\u003eTo the Revolutionary Cadres of Balboa, Malibu \u0026amp; Santa Barbara\u003cbr\u003eDuerden's Garage, Stinson Beach\u003cbr\u003eWalking Beside the Kamogawa, Remembering Nansen and Fudo and Gary's Poem\u003cbr\u003eBehind the Door\u003cbr\u003eLife at Bolinas. The Last of California\u003cbr\u003eBirthday Poem\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eExcerpts from\u003c\/i\u003e\"Scenes of Life at the Capital\"\u003cbr\u003eMany Colored Squares\u003cbr\u003e\"Up in Michigan\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Old Age Echoes\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Letter to Thomas Clark 22:VII:71 from Bolinas where He Sat beside Me to Help to Write It\u003cbr\u003e\"Horrible Incredible Lies\": Keith Lampe Spontaneously\u003cbr\u003eImaginary Splendors\u003cbr\u003ePublic Opinions\u003cbr\u003eMonument Rescue Dim\u003cbr\u003eThe Turn\u003cbr\u003eLook  Look  Look\u003cbr\u003e\"I Told Myself\": Bobbie Spontaneously\u003cbr\u003eGrowing and Changing\u003cbr\u003eOctober First\u003cbr\u003eOccasional Dilemmas\u003cbr\u003eOde for You\u003cbr\u003eAlleyway\u003cbr\u003eIn the Night\u003cbr\u003e\"Stolen and Abandoned\"\u003cbr\u003eTassajara\u003cbr\u003eThe Universal \u0026amp; Susquehanna Mercy Co. Dayton, O.\u003cbr\u003eMessage\u003cbr\u003eHigh-tension on Low-pressure Non-accomplishment Blues\u003cbr\u003eMask\u003cbr\u003eDetachment, Wisdom and Compassion\u003cbr\u003eMoney Is the Roost of All Eagles\u003cbr\u003e\"The Conditions That Prevail\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Talking Picture\u003cbr\u003eDream Poems\u003cbr\u003eMurals Not Yet Dreamed\u003cbr\u003eThe Vision of Delight\u003cbr\u003eLuxury in August\u003cbr\u003eHow to Be Successful \u0026amp; Happy Without Anybody Else Finding Out About It\u003cbr\u003eCompulsive Obligatory Paranoia Flashes\u003cbr\u003eFor Clark Coolidge\u003cbr\u003eThe Radio Again\u003cbr\u003eSomebody Else's Problem Bothers Me\u003cbr\u003eBead\u003cbr\u003eDefective Circles\u003cbr\u003eObsolete Models\u003cbr\u003eMany Pages Must Be Thrown Away\u003cbr\u003eThe Congress of Vienna\u003cbr\u003eTo the Memory Of\u003cbr\u003e\"Past Ruin'd Ilion\"\u003cbr\u003eTears and Recriminations\u003cbr\u003eDiscriminations\u003cbr\u003eHomage to St. Patrick, Garc\u0026amp;ía Lorca, \u0026amp; the Itinerant Grocer\u003cbr\u003eWhat About It?\u003cbr\u003eTreading More Water\u003cbr\u003eTreading Water\u003cbr\u003eWhat? Writing in the Dining Room?\u003cbr\u003eWhat's New?\u003cbr\u003eViolins in Chaos?\u003cbr\u003eThe Bay Trees Were About to Bloom\u003cbr\u003eDying Tooth Song\u003cbr\u003eRich Interior, After Thomas Mann\u003cbr\u003eChanson d'Outre Tombe\u003cbr\u003eHot Springs Infernal in the Human Beast\u003cbr\u003eHomage to Hart Crane\u003cbr\u003eWhat Are You Studying, These Days?\u003cbr\u003eDharmakaya\u003cbr\u003eSome of These Days\u003cbr\u003eEpigrams \u0026amp; Imitations\u003cbr\u003eFor Allen, on His 60th Birthday\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\"In Philip Whalen's poetry, offhand compositional elegance and the deep amusement of wisdom combine to produce one of the pure delights of contemporary literature.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Ron Padgett\u003cp\u003e\"Philip Whalen is a great poet; I get as much wisdom and affection from his work as from that of any poet whosoever, dead or alive, having lived whenever. The range, the space, the humor are all considerable, kingdoms of cloud mind unscrolling into the most concrete of details. This is a very large spirit.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Alice Notley\u003c\/p\u003ePhilip Whalen spent fifteen years of formal Zen training in Santa Fe and San Francisco. He is currently the Abbot of Hartford Street Zen Center in San Francisco.\u003cb\u003eHymnus Ad Patrem Sinensis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI praise those ancient Chinamen\u003cbr\u003eWho left me a few words,\u003cbr\u003eUsually a pointless joke or a silly question\u003cbr\u003eA line of poetry drunkenly scrawled on the margin of a quick\u003cbr\u003e    splashed picture--bug, leaf,\u003cbr\u003e    caricature of Teacher\u003cbr\u003e  on paper held together now by little more than ink\u003cbr\u003e  \u0026amp; their own strength brushed momentarily over it\u003cbr\u003eTheir world \u0026amp; several others since\u003cbr\u003eGone to hell in a handbasket, they knew it--\u003cbr\u003eCheered as it whizzed by--\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp; conked out among the busted spring rain cherryblossom winejars\u003cbr\u003eHappy to have saved us all\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305542308069,"sku":"NP9780140589184","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140589184.jpg?v=1767734398","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/overtime-selected-poems-isbn-9780140589184","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}