Plutonian Ode

"Plutonian Ode" is a poem written by American Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1978 against the arms race and nuclear armament of the superpowers. It is heavily inspired by Gnosticism which Ginsberg came to know after reading Hans Jonas's book on the subject. Philip Glass' Symphony No. 6 is based on and includes parts of this poem.^[1]

It was first published in The CoEvolution Quarterly / Journal for the Protection of All Beings co-issue, Fall 1978.

References

Allen Ginsberg

Poetry collections	Howl and Other Poems (1956) Kaddish and Other Poems (1961) Reality Sandwiches (1963) Planet News (1968) The Fall of America: Poems of These States (1973) Mind Breaths (1978) White Shroud Poems: 1980–1985 (1986)

Poems	"Pull My Daisy" (late 1940s) "A Supermarket in California" (1956) "America" (1956) "Howl" (1956) "Ignu" (1958) "Kaddish" (1961) "Wichita Vortex Sutra" (1966) Iron Horse (1973) "Hadda Be Playing on the Jukebox" (1975) "Plutonian Ode" (1978)

Other works	The Yage Letters (1963, letters) Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake, tuned by Allen Ginsberg (1970 album) Deliberate Prose 1952–1995 (2000, essays)

Films	Pull My Daisy (1959) Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (1993) Beat (2000) Allen Ginsberg Live in London (2005) Corso: The Last Beat (2007) I'm Not There (2007) Chicago 10 (2009) The Chicago 8 (2010) Howl (2010) Kill Your Darlings (2013)

Related	Six Gallery reading Hydrogen Jukebox International Poetry Incarnation Beat Generation Beatnik Central Park be-in Counterculture of the 1960s Human Be-In National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam Off the Road

People	William S. Burroughs Lucien Carr Neal Cassady Gregory Corso Lawrence Ferlinghetti Jack Kerouac Peter Orlovsky (partner)

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