A posthumous collection of more than 100 Ginsberg poems is largely comprised of spontaneously penned or forgotten works included in letters or sent to obscure publications and is arranged in chronological order and complemented by extensive author notes. Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till Im dead.Allen Ginsberg, August 8, 1990, 3:30 A.M.The first Ginsberg book since the updating of the Collected Poems in 2006,Wait Til Im Dead is a landmark publication, sure to garner significant attention. Ginsberg wrote incessantly for more than fifty years, often composing poetry on demand, and many of the poems collected for the first time in this volume were scribbled in letters or sent off to obscure publications and unjustly forgotten. Wait Til Im Dead, which spans the whole of Ginsbergs long writing career, from the 1940s to the 1990s, is a testament to Ginsbergs astonishing writing and singular aesthetics. At times he grew weary of the work and complained that he was overburdened, but the complaint often took the shape of a poem itself.Following the chronology of his life, Wait Til Im Dead reproduces the poems together with Ginsbergs extensive notes, which situate them in the context of their contemporary worlds. Containing 103 previously unpublished poems and accompanied by original photographs, Wait Till Im Dead is the final major contribution to Ginsbergs sprawling oeuvre, a must have for Ginsberg neophytes and long-time fans alike.
