The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)
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Rating | : | 4.98 (882 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0872860639 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 188 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2014-02-26 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Allen Ginsberg is also the author of Howl and Other Poems, which was originally published by City Lights Books in the fall of 1956.
Nicholas Cannariato said Ginsberg's peakskill. Allen Ginsberg peaks with this volume of wonderful, meditative poetry. Although many would claim he hit his prime early, circa Howl, The Fall of America, though not as stylistically dynamic as Howl or Kaddish, is more meditative, maturely political, and tender. Many of the poems in this volume are diaphonous reflections on Ginsberg's American travels, presumably without Kerouac(don't get too excited, hipsters). His poetic stylings seem to be dream woven, with. "Ginsberg's soul on Paper" according to A Customer. Allen Ginsberg brings his magic of the english word to the pages of fall of america, with his assaults of verbatim consciousness.A must read for any stream of consciousness poet.. jean-michel gadoua said We have entered The Fall of America. Well, you probabably knew it already. This is the first Allen Ginsberg book I have ever read. Asymetric beauty, astonishing aesthetics and original symbolism and metaphors meet personnal reflexions of the fall of the modern and capitalist America. You can really feel the beat, the music of this poetry. Allen Ginsberg sings as he travels through country landscapes and encounters, through smokestacks and cities.The vision of a sensitive man, looking at what thi
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 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®. 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 N
National Book Award for Poetry, 1973Beginning 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.