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“Sun” was an early poem published at City
Lights by Gregory Corso. It begins, in typical
Ginsbergesque style “Sun hypnotic! Holy ball
protracted long and sure! Fiery goblet! Day
babble!”. “Sun” is an attempt to embrace a global
theme, an all-encompassing theme, in typical
“beatific” fashion, a theme that relates to all, the
holy grail of poems. “Power” is a common theme
in Corso’s early poetry, although abstract, it
becomes a more concrete and real object in
“bomb”. In a sense Corso is transformed into
bardic harbinger or shaman, as Dom Moraes states
“More than any other poet, he’s put the lyre back
into the lyric “and that “Bomb” illuminates a
haphazard mosaic (Beckett, 2012). However, the
mosaic is more intimate than haphazard as it
appeals to the very element of contemporized
human sentiment. Furthermore "bomb" is a sound
poem recorded in 1959 and overlaid with music in
2002. It was written from a trance perspective and
is meant to induce the same. Thus we see from
"bomb" that it contains two vital shamanic
elements 1) rendering Corso as a contemporary
shaman in heralding his universal message and 2)
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