Kaddish, and Other Poems, 1958–1960

Allen Ginsberg

Original title: Kaddish, and other poems

earliest edition we have, 1978 City Lights Books, 1978 99 pages

The pocket poets series — book 14

In the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-20th century suffering anguish of separation from my own body and its natural infinity of feeling its own self one with all self... These poems almost unconscious to confess the beatific human fact, the language intuitively chosen as in trance & dream... while chanting Kaddish the names of Death in many mind-worlds the self seeking the Key to life found at last in our s...

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Kaddish and other poems edition · 2010 · City Lights Books · 130 pages · 9780872865112
Kaddish paperback · 2000 · Logoreci · 70 pages
Kaddish, and Other Poems, 1958–1960 edition · 1978 · City Lights Books · 99 pages

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