false 47180 1 Great strange visionary poems by the author of Howl: "In the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-20th century suffering anguish of separation from my own body & its natural infinity of feeling its own self one with all self, I instinctively seeking to reconstitute that blissful union which I experience so rarely. I took it to be supernatural an gave it holy Name thus made hymn laments of longing & litanies of triumphancy of Self over mind-illusion mechano-universe of un-feeling Time in which I saw my self my own mother & my very nation trapped desolate our worlds of consciousness homeless & at war except for the original trembling of bliss in breast & belly of every body that nakedness rejected in suits of fear that familiar defenseless living hurt self which is myself same as all others abandoned scared to own unchanging desire for each other. These poems almost unconscious to confess the beatific human fact, the language intuitively chosen as in trance & dream, the rhythms rising on breath from belly thru breast, the hymn completed in tears, the movement of the physical poetry demanding & receiving decades of life while chanting Kaddish the names of Death in many worlds the self seeking the Key to life found at last in our self." 46227 1 1 1960 Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-60 (Pocket Poets) total:747|5:326|4:283|3:117|2:17|1:4| 747 3151 920 23 3 0 false false Wed Jan 07 20:31:13 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 20:04:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Nov 03 20:22:55 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 20:24:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Thu Apr 12 20:37:40 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 12 20:42:50 -0700 2007
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Fuck it, man. This thing floored me. I felt reticent to even read Ginsberg when I was introduced to his writing, and still, it floored me. I’m a little too vapid and stilted for poetry, but not this one.

Moving.
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