Poems for the Nation

With Andy Clausen and Eliot Katz

Throughout the last year and a half of his life, Allen Ginsberg phoned many of his poet friends to ask if they had any social verses opposing America's rightwing drift or otherwise speaking their current political minds. Poems for the Nation presents the perceptive and visionary poems that Ginsberg collected (with selections based on his notes), and also includes writings from contributors to "Planet News," an historic tribute to Allen Ginsberg that was held at New York City's St. John the Divine Cathedral in May 1998.

Featuring the voices of: Antler, Amiri Baraka, Barbara Barg, Eugene Brooks, William Burroughs, Andy Clausen, Wanda Coleman, Jack Collom, David Cope, Jayne Cortez, Diane di Prima, Eric Drooker, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Cliff Fyman, Allen Ginsberg, Aime Grunberger, Eliot Katz, Tuli Kupferberg, Sharon Mesmer, Daniel Moore, Eileen Myles, Carl Rakosi, Bob Rosenthal, Nanao Sakaki, Edward Sanders, Janine Pommy Vega, Anne Waldman, and Peter Lamborn Wilson.