GINSBERG, Allen Kaddish San Fransisco, City Lights Books, 1993
Small 4vo. Black and White iconic card wrappers; pp. [6] 7-99; ad. [5]; fading on front and back wrappers; stains and foxing to front wrapper and binding, minor scuffing on rear spine fading title lettering; otherwise good.
"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 mothers passing but also his own estrangement with 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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