Kaddish And Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg PB

As a pandemic rages and we are unable to gather to celebrate our dead, make our minyans, or hold one another's hands, have our seders, I think of Ginsberg writing Kaddishfor his mother. I think of him imagining a journey from bondage to freedom. . . . Kaddish is the perfect poem for these times."--Laurel Brett, The Forward

Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish," a poem about the death of his mother, Naomi, is one of his major works. This special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kaddish and Other Poems features an illuminating afterword by Ginsberg biographer Bill Morgan, along with previously unpublished photographs, documents, and letters relating to the composition of the poem.