![]() "In the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century suffering anguish of separation from my own body and its natural infinity of feeling its own self one with all self, I instinctively seeking to reconstitute that blissful union which I experience so rarely. He lives in New York City and Bennington, Vermont. This special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kaddish and Other Poems features an illuminating afterword by Ginsberg biographer Bill Morgan, along with previously unpublished photographs, documents, and letters relating to the composition of the poem.Īllen Ginsberg, founding father of the Beat Generation, inspired the American counterculture of the second half of the twentieth century with his groundbreaking poems.īill Morgan is the author of I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg. ![]() Kaddish is the perfect poem for these times."- Laurel Brett, The ForwardĪllen Ginsberg's "Kaddish," a poem about the death of his mother, Naomi, is one of his major works. ![]() I think of him imagining a journey from bondage to freedom. "As a pandemic rages and we are unable to gather to celebrate our dead, make our minyans, or hold one another's hands, have our seders, I think of Ginsberg writing Kaddish for his mother. ![]()
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