{"product_id":"kaddish-and-other-poems-1958-1960","title":"Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs a pandemic rages and we are unable to gather to celebrate our dead, make our \u003cem\u003eminyans, \u003c\/em\u003e or hold one another's hands, have our seders, I think of Ginsberg writing \u003cem\u003eKaddish\u003c\/em\u003e for his mother. I think of him imagining a journey from bondage to freedom. . . . \u003cem\u003eKaddish\u003c\/em\u003e is the perfect poem for these times.--\u003cstrong\u003eLaurel Brett, \u003cem\u003eThe Forward\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllen Ginsberg's Kaddish, a poem about the death of his mother, Naomi, is one of his major works. This special fiftieth anniversary edition of \u003cem\u003eKaddish and Other Poems \u003c\/em\u003efeatures an illuminating afterword by Ginsberg biographer Bill Morgan, along with previously unpublished photographs, documents, and letters relating to the composition of the poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAllen Ginsberg\u003c\/strong\u003e, founding father of the Beat Generation, inspired the American counterculture of the second half of the twentieth century with his groundbreaking poems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBill Morgan\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eI Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in New York City and Bennington, Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century suffering anguish of separation from my own body and its natural infinity of feeling its own self one with all self, I instinctively seeking to reconstitute that blissful union which I experience so rarely. I took it to be supernatural and gave it holy Name thus made hymn laments of longing and litanies of triumphancy of Self over mind-illusion mechano-universe of un-feeling Time in which I saw my self my own mother and my very nation trapped desolate our worlds of consciousness homeless and at war except for the original trembling of bliss in breast and belly of every body that nakedness rejected in suits of fear that familiar defenseless living hurt self which is myself same as all others abandoned scared to own unchanging desire for each other.\u003cstrong\u003e--Allen Ginsberg from \u003cem\u003eKaddish\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKaddish, \u003c\/em\u003e Ginsberg's ode to his mother after her death, is streaked with references to Judaism and to the funerary prayer recited by a male mourner for the passing of a parent or relative. Like the prayer, Ginsberg's poem is a celebration of his mother, but it also delves into--and, indeed, dwells on--the darker side of her life. . . . Ginsberg bears witness to his mother's pain and struggles; he intones her name--another act of remembrance--over and over again as if to deify her.\u003cstrong\u003e--Maria Eliades, \u003cem\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Publishers - City Lights Publishe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33007715024996,"sku":"9780872865112","price":9.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/kaddish-and-other-poems-1958-1960","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}