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Kaddish, and other poems, 1958-1960 / Allen Ginsberg.

Van Pelt Library PS3513.I74 K3
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997, author.
Contributor:
City Lights Books, publisher.
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Pocket poets series ; no. 14.
The Pocket poets series ; number fourteen
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Beats (Persons)--Poetry.
Beats (Persons).
Hallucinogenic drugs.
Hallucinogenic drugs--Side effects--Poetry.
American poetry--20th century.
American poetry.
Genre:
Poetry.
Penn Provenance:
Rothman, Steven D. (donor) (RBC copy)
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Physical Description:
100 pages ; 16 cm.
Place of Publication:
San Francisco : City Lights Books, 1961.
Summary:
"Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish," a long poem written about the madness and death of his mother, Naomi, is widely considered to be one his major works."--PUBLISHER.
Contents:
Kaddish
Poem rocket
Europe! Europe!
To Lindsay
Message
To Aunt Rose
At Apollinaire's grave
The lion for real
Ignu
Death to Van Gogh's ear!
Laughing gas
Mescaline
Lysergic acid
Magic psalm
The reply
The end.
Notes:
" ©1961 by Allen Ginsberg"--title page verso.
Local Notes:
Penn Libraries Rare copy is 14th printing, March 1974.
Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is 30th printing, March 2003.
Cited in:
Dowden, G. Ginsberg, page 8
Kraus, M.P. Ginsberg, 1969-1977, 17
Morgan, B. Works of Ginsberg, A4
OCLC:
284343

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