The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971
by Allen Ginsberg
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"Beginning with 'long poem of these States, ' The Fall of America continues Planet News chronicle tape-recorded scribed by hand or sung condensed, the flux of car bus airplane dream consciousness Person during Automated Electronic War years, newspaper headline radio brain auto poesy & silent desk musings, headline flashing on road through these states of consciousness. . . ."--Jacket.Tags
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This is the next book I buy. I borrowed a copy from a friend at work and was a bit put off by the rambling and lack of structure. I listened to Ginsberg read some of his poetry and then everything made sense.
I have gotten much better at "getting" best poetry since I first read this book. 2016 is the 60th anniversary of the publishing of The Howl and Other Poems. I imagine it will be a fairly big deal as I already have two ARCs for Ginsberg books to be published in 2016.
Ginsberg manages to combine bits of everything in his work -- beat friends, Judaism, antiestablishment, homosexuality, and vulgarity. A shock for the times, but mild by today's standards.
Read as a preview for next year's Ginsberg books
I have gotten much better at "getting" best poetry since I first read this book. 2016 is the 60th anniversary of the publishing of The Howl and Other Poems. I imagine it will be a fairly big deal as I already have two ARCs for Ginsberg books to be published in 2016.
Ginsberg manages to combine bits of everything in his work -- beat friends, Judaism, antiestablishment, homosexuality, and vulgarity. A shock for the times, but mild by today's standards.
Read as a preview for next year's Ginsberg books
Ginsberg is alway great.
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Irwin Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of poet and teacher Louis Ginsberg. In 1948, he received a B.A. degree from Columbia University. Ginsberg began writing poetry while still in school and first gained wide public recognition in 1956 with the long poem Howl. Howl has had a stormy history. When it was first recited at show more poetry readings, audiences cheered wildly. It was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books and printed in England. Before the printed copies could be distributed, however they were seized by U.S. custom officials as obscene. After a famous court case in which the poem was found not to be obscene, the work sold rapidly and Ginsberg's reputation was assured. Regarded as the foremost port of the Beat generation (as group of rebellious writers who opposed conformity and sough intensity of experience), Ginsberg's work is concerned with many subjects of contemporary interest, including drugs, sexual confusion, the voluntary poverty of the artist and rebel, and rejection of society. He is a poet with a significant message, and his criticism of American society is part of a long tradition of American writers who have questioned their country's values. Ginsberg received numerous honors, including a Woodbury Poetry Prize, a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and a National Book Award for poetry. Ginsberg was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1995 for his book Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992. Ever the Bohemian, he had numerous occupations throughout his lifetime including dishwasher, porter, book reviewer, and spot welder. He died in April 1997 of complications due to liver cancer. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971
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- San Francisco, California, USA; Wichita, Kansas, USA; Big Sur, California, USA; Bangladesh
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