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Kaddish and Other Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
Kaddish and Other Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Allen Ginsberg
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Afterword by Bill Morgan
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Series | Pocket Poets Series |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:128 | Dimensions(mm): Height 165,Width 127 |
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Category/Genre | Poetry by individual poets |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780872865112
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Classifications | Dewey:811.54 |
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Edition |
50th Anniversary Edition
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
City Lights Books
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Imprint |
City Lights Books
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Publication Date |
9 December 2010 |
Publication Country |
United States
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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of Kaddish and Other Poems features an illuminating afterword by Ginsberg biographer Bill Morgan, as well as previously unpublished photographs, documents and letters relating to the composition of the poem.
Author Biography
Allen Ginsberg: 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 American, Mind Breaths, and Plutonian Ode, all published by City Lights. Bill Morgan: Bill Morgan (b.1949) is a painter and archival consultant who lives in New York City and Bennington, Vermont. He is the author of The Beat Generation in New York and The Beat Generation in San Francisco, I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg, and edited Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays of Allen Ginsberg, 1952-1995, as well as Ginsberg's Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937-1952, and Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression.
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