![]() She had never gotten along with her mother-in-law, and began to suspect Buba of plotting against her in bizarre ways. A visit to an expensive sanitarium, Bloomingdale, seemed to help, and Naomi was better for a while.Īs Allen entered his early teenage years, Naomi got worse again. ![]() Naomi, complaining of a painful sensitivity to light, would sit in darkened rooms for hours. The first episodes occurred before Allen was born, and then again when he was a few years old. Before the episodes began Naomi Ginsberg had been a pretty and vivacious schoolteacher, perhaps eccentric in her fanatical devotion to the Communist party (not an uncommon thing among Jews of her generation), but well-loved by family, friends and neighbors. As a young boy growing up in Paterson, New Jersey, Allen watched his mother succumb to a series of psychotic episodes that grew progressively worse despite desperate attempts at treatment. ![]() ![]() Kaddish, Allen Ginsberg’s most stunning and emotional poem, tells a story that is entirely true. ![]()
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