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Title: Luminous Dreams by Allen Ginsberg ISBN: 8-4874672-5-3 Publisher: Small Press Pub. Date: January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: A Dream Key to the Artist's Life
Comment: If you know an artist's dreams, then you have the key to his art.

This tiny volume (approximately the size of City Light's pocket Poets Series) seems to be inspired by the published dream journals of both Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. There are only some seven dreams here, in a little over 50 pages, but it is enough. That is because these are not common dreams.

The first dream is entitled _History of Jewish Socialist Party in America_. This is a dream of humor and insecurity centering around a tiny radical group's frantic attempt to convince its single FBI infiltrator that they are worth spying on. It reads like a Woody Allen sketch.

The _Texas Power Apocalyse_ comes as close to a prophetic dream as any I've read. It deals with a huge national powergrid centered around a great tower in Texas crashing and taking most of the country with it. It would seem that Ginsberg foresaw Enron....

_Ambiguous Guru, Nervous Student_ is another dream of insecurity, but centering around the theme of spirituality. In this dream Ginsberg is desperately trying to get the approval of his Tibeten Guru- and is devastated when he does not get it.

_The Book of Good and Evil_ seems to be a visit to what Burroughs called the Place of Dead Roads. It is a nightmare of disturbing images of savage conflict and betrayal.

As for _Two Dreams of Jack Kerouac_, the most revealing part is that Jack goes through the very center of the Vast Valley of the World, while Allen turns off to live on the perimeter. This dream also confirms the conviction that society in not embracing, or understanding, Kerouac's American Vision consigned itself to our current sad state. Even in his dreams, Ginsberg never faultered from this vision- he kept the faith.

Finally, _Dream Archives_ seems to show what Ginsberg would most like to find. It deals with his inheriting a European Villa full of obscure manuscripts dealing with the pre WWII international, artistic, political, and spiritual scene. Not unlike the way some of us dream of inheriting a place in San Fran full of unpublished Beat manuscripts....