Complex sentence: It was begun in the Beat Hotel in Paris in December 1957, completed in New York in 1959, and published by City Lights Books in 1961 as the lead in the collection "Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960".
Split into simpler sentences: It was begun in the Beat Hotel in Paris in December 1957 and completed in New York in 1959. The poem was published as the lead in the collection "Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960".