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Kaddish and Other Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Kaddish and Other Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Allen Ginsberg
Afterword by Bill Morgan
SeriesPocket Poets Series
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:128
Dimensions(mm): Height 165,Width 127
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780872865112
ClassificationsDewey:811.54
Audience
General
Edition 50th Anniversary Edition

Publishing Details

Publisher City Lights Books
Imprint City Lights Books
Publication Date 9 December 2010
Publication Country United States

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Kaddish and Other Poems features an illuminating afterword by Ginsberg biographer Bill Morgan, as well as previously unpublished photographs, documents and letters relating to the composition of the poem.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