Sun Ra This Planet Is Doomed book

book
2011/1957-82
new
100 pages of zoinked space poetry by Saturn's most famous ambassador. Some of this turned into lyrics over the years, to be intoned by Ra, June Tyson, or another member of the band. Unlike those little pamphlets of Ra poetry that used to circulate in the 80s & 90s, this isn't really an overview of Ra's philosophy (although there's at least one anti-sex line, but I like to think you can read Ra on that topic as being merely anti-decadence). Instead, there are lots of poems urging you to wake from the shadows & partake of infinity, and it's powerful & uplifting, if I do say so. Two forwards, one by Amiri Baraka & the other by comics writer Bhob Stewart.