Signed by Ginsberg
GINSBERG, Allen. Kaddish and other poems 1958-1960. San Francisco: City Lights Books. 1993.
Small 4to. Black and White iconic card wrappers; blue half verso; pp. [6] 7-99; ad. [5]; minor crease to front wrapper and slight indent to spine and back wrapper; residual marking of previous price sticker; otherwise near fine.
Twenty-third printing, a unique copy, signed by Allen Ginsberg in London and dated 12/09/94, three years before his death.
"Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village" begins Allen Ginsberg's Kaddish dedicated to his mother, Naomi, who died in 1956, two years before this publication.
Kaddish refers to the Jewish mourning prayer and is not only a reflection of the forever estrangement caused by his mother's passing but also his own estrangement from his religious faith.
Heralded as possibly his finest work, Kaddish was first published in this The City Lights Pocket Poets Series edition and still continues to impact generations of readers.
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