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Kaddish" also known as "Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg (1894–1956)" is a poem by Beat writer Allen Ginsberg about his mother Naomi and her death on June 9, 1956. Background [ edit ]
The lead poem "Kaddish" also known as "Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg (1894-1956)", was written in two parts by Beat writer Allen Ginsberg, and was first published in Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960. The book was part of the Pocket Poet Series published by City Lights Books. In the table of contents, the poem is titled "Kaddish: Proem, narrative ...
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ n z b ɜːr ɡ /; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer.As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation.
Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems, 1961 (reissued 50th Anniversary Edition, 2010) Robert Nichols, Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train, 1962; Anselm Hollo (editor & translator), Red Cats, 1962; Malcolm Lowry, Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry, 1962 (re-edited and reissued, 2017) Allen Ginsberg, Reality Sandwiches, 1963
Paul McCartney and Youth, performing as The Fireman, borrowed the title of their album Electric Arguments from the poem "Kansas City to St. Louis," in which Ginsberg describes driving along the highway in a "white Volkswagen" (i.e., a "beetle") while listening to music and call-in shows on the radio and looking at signs and billboards:
Louis Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey, on October 1, 1895, to Pincus Ginsberg and Rebecca Schectman Ginsberg. [3] His siblings included Abraham (Abe), Rose, Clara, and Hannah (Honey). Louis was stimulated to write poetry by Margaret Coult, a high school teacher who had him read Milton's L'Allegro or Il Penseroso , and write a poem like it.
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Until the publication of her posthumous collection, Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments, Cowen was most famous for typing the final draft of "Kaddish" for Allen Ginsberg, after which she observed, "You still haven't finished with your mother." [3] She discovered Jewish mysticism and Buddhism through Ginsberg, which influenced her poetry. [3]