Ignu
Poem written by Allen Ginsberg
Ignu is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1958.
It describes a specific type of person, called an Ignu, who, among other numerous attributes, "lives only once and eternally and knows it," and "sleeps in everybody's bed." Ginsberg mentions many of his friends in the poem as examples of Ignus, including William S. Burroughs
References
- Ginsberg, Allen. "Ignu," Selected Poems 1947-1995 New York, NY 1996
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Allen Ginsberg
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)
- "Pull My Daisy" (late 1940s)
- "A Supermarket in California" (1956)
- "America" (1956)
- "Howl" (1956)
- "Ignu" (1958)
- "Kaddish" (1961)
- "Wichita Vortex Sutra" (1966)
- "September on Jessore Road" (1971)
- Iron Horse (1973)
- "Hadda Be Playing on the Jukebox" (1975)
- "Plutonian Ode" (1978)
- The Yage Letters (1963, letters)
- Songs of Innocence and Experience (1970 album)
- Deliberate Prose 1952–1995 (2000, essays)
- Pull My Daisy (1959)
- Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (1993)
- The Source (1999)
- 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)