Kaddish and Other Poems

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50th Anniversary Edition

By Allen Ginsberg

Series: Pocket Poets Series

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Kaddish and Other Poems is a seminal collection by Allen Ginsberg, featuring the deeply personal and influential poem Kaddish. Alongside the more famous Howl, these works are cornerstones of twentieth-century American poetry. This deluxe fiftieth-anniversary edition includes an illuminating afterword by biographer Bill Morgan and rare unpublished photographs, documents, and letters that provide insight into the creation of Kaddish.
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Essential for readers interested in twentieth-century American poetry, Beat literature, and those studying the cultural and artistic movements of postwar America.

The deluxefiftieth anniversaryedition.

Print: NY Times, NY Review of Books, New Yorker, NY Magazine, NY Newsday, Washington Post, LA Times, SF Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, Boston Globe, Beat Scene UK, Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Time Out, USA Today, Toronto Globe & Mail and more. We'll pursue literary magazines and journals such as the American Book Review, as well as Jewish media.

Web: allenginsberg.org, Dharma Beat, Reality Sandwich.com, Literary Kicks, Daily Beat, popmatters.com, City Lights Facebook and Twitter accounts, poetry and literature web sites like Elegant Variation, and more.

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Description

Allen Ginsberg's Kaddish, along with the more celebrated Howl, is one of the most important and influential American poems of the twentieth century.

This deluxe hardcover fiftieth-anniversary edition of Kaddish and Other Poems features an illuminating afterword by Ginsberg biographer Bill Morgan, as well as previously unpublished photographs, documents, and letters relating to the composition of the poem.

Series: Pocket Poets Series

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780872865112

Publisher: City Lights Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 January 2011

Country: United States

Imprint: City Lights Books

Edition: NONE, 50th Anniversary Edition

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Afterword by Bill Morgan

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 165.0mm

Weight: 113g

Pages: 128

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Allen Ginsberg Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry Series: Pocket Poets Series

About the Author

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), founding father of the Beat Generation, inspired the American counterculture of the second half of the twentieth century with his grounbreaking poems. His books include Howl & Other Poems, Kaddish & Other Poems, Reality Sandwiches, Planet News, Fall of America, Mind Breaths, and Plutonian Ode, all published by City Lights.

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