Kadysz i inne wiersze 1958-1960

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."