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Kaddish and Other Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition: 14 Paperback – Illustrated, 23 November 2010
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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of Kaddish and Other Poems features an illuminating afterword by Ginsberg biographer Bill Morgan, as well as previously unpublished photographs, documents and letters relating to the composition of the poem.
- ISBN-100872865118
- ISBN-13978-0872865112
- EditionNONE, 50th Anniversary
- PublisherCity Lights Publishers
- Publication date23 November 2010
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions12.7 x 0.64 x 15.88 cm
- Print length128 pages
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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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- Publisher : City Lights Publishers; NONE, 50th Anniversary edition (23 November 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 128 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0872865118
- ISBN-13 : 978-0872865112
- Dimensions : 12.7 x 0.64 x 15.88 cm
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Allen Ginsberg was born in 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, a son of Naomi Ginsberg and lyric poet Louis Ginsberg. In 1956 he published his signal poem, Howl, one of the most widely read and translated poems of the century. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, awarded the medal of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French minister of culture in 1993, and co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute, the first accredited Buddhist college in the Western world, Allen Ginsberg died on April 5, 1997.
Bill Morgan is a painter and archival consultant working in New York City. He is the author of numerous books about Beat Generation history and its writers, most recently The Beats Abroad: A Global Guide to the Beat Generation, Peter Orlovsky: A Life in Words, and The Typewriter is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation. He has edited collections of writing and correspondence of many of the Beat Generation's most important authors, including Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Kerouac, Burroughs, Snyder and Corso. He is a painter and a Civil War expert, and has worked as an archivist for Lawrence Ferlinghtetti, Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, Diane diPrima, Oliver Sacks, Arthur Miller and Timothy Leary among others.