Books

[San Francisco]: City Lights Books, 1961. First edition, Second Printing, with $1.50 price on the rear wrapper. 100pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Wrappers, soiled but in nice condition. First edition, Second Printing, with $1.50 price on the rear wrapper. 100pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Inscribed to Mathew Monahan of the Gotham Bookmart on the title-page, with some ephemera laid-in, including: 1) Checklists of Separate Publications of Poets at the First Berkeley Poetry Conference 1965 (Cody's Books) 2) Post-card written from Peter Orlovsky to Kathy Keskey, ordering books from Gotham, to be billed to Allen Ginsberg 3) An order form for three Ginsberg titles by Lospecchio Press, with annotations on the verso about buying (for Gotham) 4) Two postcards for Ginsberg events or artwork.

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.