The Fall of America: Poems of These States ; 1965 - 1971City Lights Books, 1983 - 188 pagina's This collection is characterized by a prophetic tone inspired by William Blake and Walt Whitman, as well as an objective view characterized by William Carlos Williams. The content is more overtly political than most of his previous poetry with many of the poems about Ginsberg's condemnation of America's actions in Vietnam. Current events such as the Moon Landing and the 1968 Democratic National Convention, the death of Che Guevara, and personal events such as the death of Ginsberg's friend and former lover Neal Cassady are also topics. |
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Beginning of a Poem of These States | 1 |
Continuation San Francisco Southward | 7 |
Hiway Poesy L A to Wichita | 14 |
On the Lam from Bloomington | 27 |
Wings Lifted Over the Black Pit | 41 |
New England Fall | 48 |
Done finished with the Biggest Cock | 54 |
An Open Window on Chicago | 61 |
Manhattan Thirties Flash | 83 |
Over Denver Again | 107 |
Easter Sunday | 113 |
Sonora Desert Edge | 120 |
In a Moonlit Hermits Cabin | 127 |
Flash Back | 136 |
Ecologue | 147 |
Guru Om | 162 |
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