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"America" is a poem by Allen Ginsberg, written in 1956 while he was in Berkeley, California.It appears in his collection Howl and Other Poems published in November 1956.. The poem is presented in a stream of consciousness literary format.
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ n z b ɜːr ɡ /; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer.As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation.
The Fall of America blends poetry, travel writing, personal experience, radio news broadcasts, popular songs, newspaper headlines, and journalistic observations, to give it a multilayered and spontaneous effect. It marks Ginsberg's movement toward a more complete spontaneous style of expression. Some of the poems included in this collection are:
Ginsberg's fame drew the attention of celebrities such as Bob Dylan. This photograph of Dylan and Ginsberg was taken in 1975. Though "Howl" was Ginsberg's most famous poem, the collection includes many examples of Ginsberg at his peak, many of which garnered nearly as much attention and praise as "Howl." These poems include:
Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America, Poems of These States 1965-1971, 1972; Pete Winslow, A Daisy in the Memory of a Shark, 1973; Harold Norse, Hotel Nirvana, 1974; Anne Waldman, Fast Speaking Woman, 1975 (reissued & expanded, 1996) Jack Hirschman, Lyripol, 1976; Allen Ginsberg, Mind Breaths, Poems 1972-1977, 1977; Stefan Brecht, Poems, 1978
The poem was first performed at the Six Gallery in San Francisco on October 7, 1955. [14] Ginsberg had not originally intended the poem for performance. The reading was conceived by Wally Hedrick—a painter and co-founder of the Six—who approached Ginsberg in mid-1955 and asked him to organize a poetry reading at the Six Gallery.
Beat Culture and the New America 1950–1965 was published by the Whitney Museum of American Art in accordance with an exhibition in 1995/1996. ISBN 0-87427-098-7 softcover. ISBN 2-08-013613-5 hardcover (Flammarion) Raskin, Jonah. American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" and the Making of the Beat Generation. University of California Press, 2004.
Pages in category "Poetry by Allen Ginsberg" ... America (poem) F. The Fall of America: Poems of These States; H. Hadda Be Playing on the Jukebox; Howl (poem)