The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) - Softcover

Ginsberg, Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872860639 ISBN 13: 9780872860636

Publisher: City Lights Publishers, 1972

Synopsis

National Book Award for Poetry, 1973

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. . . .

"[Ginsberg] is never negligible, and he is often (the only true test) unforgettable." — Helen Vendler, New York Times Book Review

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was an influential writer and poet during the 1950's Beat Generation and is best known for his poem "Howl."

About this title

About the Author:

Allen Ginsberg is also the author of Howl and Other Poems, which was originally published by City Lights Books in the fall of 1956.

Review:

After Thoughts
Anti Vietnam-war Peace Mobilization
Auto Poesy: On The Lam From Bloomington
Autumn Gold: New England Fall
Bayonne Entering Nyc
Bayonne Turnpike To Tuscarora
Beginning Of A Poem Of These States
Bixby Canyon
Bixby Canyon Ocean Path Word Breeze
Car Crash
Chicago To Salt Lake By Air
Cleveland, The Flats
Continuation Of A Long Poem Of These States
Crossing Nation
Death On All Fronts
Done, Finished With The Biggest Cock
Easter Sunday
Ecologue
Elegy Che Guevara
Elegy For Neal Cassady
Falling Asleep In America
Flash Back
Friday The Thirteenth
G.s. Reading Poesy At Princeton
Going To Chicago
Graffiti 12th Cubicle Men's Room Syracuse Airport
Grant Park: August 28, 1968
Guru Om
'have You Seen This Movie?'
Hiway Poesy L.a. To Wichita
Hum Bom!
Imaginary Universes
In A Moonlit Hermit's Cabin
Independence Day
Kansas City To Saint Louis
Kiss Ass
Manhattan Thirties Flash
Memory Gardens
Milarepa Taste
Northwest Passage
On Neal's Ashes
An Open Window On Chicago
Over Denver Again
Over Laramie
Past Silver Durango Over Mexic Sierra Wrinkles
Pertussin
Please Master
A Prophecy
Rain-wet Asphalt Heat, Garbage Curbed Cans Overflowing
Reflections In Sleepy Eye
Returning North Of Vortex
Rising Over Night-blackened Detroit Streets
September On Jessore Road
Smoke Rolling Down Street
Sonora Desert-edge
Swirls Of Black Dust On Avenue D
These States, Into L.a.
To Poe: Over The Planet, Air Albany-baltimore
Violence
A Vow
War Profit Litany
Wings Lifted Over The Black Pit
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: City Lights Publishers
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0872860639
• ISBN 13: 9780872860636
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188