Books

First Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author. "downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph". Ginsberg, Allen. KADDISH AND OTHER POEMS 1958-1960. Signed. San Francisco: City Lights, (1961). First Edition, second printing with the correct points present, according to Morgan A1.2. Signed and dated 5/22/88 by Allen Ginsberg with a drawing. Just about fine or better in black and white wrappers. 12mo. 100 pp. Next to Howl, Ginsberg's most important book. The Pocket Poet Series, Number Fourteen. Cook, pp. 32-33. Bill Morgan. The Works of Allen Ginsberg, 1941-1994: A Descriptive Bibliography.

Kaddish and Other Poems represents Allen Ginsberg's continuation of his deep dive into uniquely personal material. The central poem, 'Kaddish,' is an elegy for his mother Naomi, a deeply moving and complex piece exploring themes of family, mental illness, and suffering.