Fall of America
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| Author(s) | Allen Ginsberg |
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| Subtitle | Poems of These States, 1965-1971 |
| Publisher | City Lights Books |
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| Dedicated to Walt Whitman, these poems continue the Good Gray Poet’s project of chronicling the whole of America. For Ginsberg, however, America is less to be praised than to be scolded, and as he travels from place to place in these poems, he exhorts the country to be more just, more peaceful, and more free. These poems were written when Ginsberg was at his most active politically, but they aren’t strictly business: there are several erotic reveries, as well. | |
Dedicated to Walt Whitman, these poems continue the Good Gray Poet’s project of chronicling the whole of America. For Ginsberg, however, America is less to be praised than to be scolded, and as he travels from place to place in these poems, he exhorts the country to be more just, more peaceful, and more free. These poems were written when Ginsberg was at his most active politically, but they aren’t strictly business: there are several erotic reveries, as well.
