Fall of america poems of these - states

Informationen zum Autor Allen Ginsberg was born June 3, 1926, the son of Naomi Ginsberg, Russian émigré, and Louis Ginsberg, lyric poet and school teacher, in Paterson, N.J. To these facts Ginsberg adds: "High school in Paterson till 17, Columbia College, merchant marine, Texas and Denver copyboy, Times Square, amigos in jail, dishwashing, book reviews, Mexico City, market research, Satori in Harlem, Yucatan and Chiapas 1954, West Coast 3 years. Later Arctic Sea trip, Tangier, Venice, Amsterdam, Paris, read at Oxford Harvard Columbia Chicago, quit, wrote "Kaddish" 1959, made tape to leave behind & fade in Orient awhile. Carl Solomon to whom "Howl" is addressed, is a intuitive Bronx dadaist and prose-poet." Klappentext "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. . . . Zusammenfassung Vietnam-era poems of rage and compassion. Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry.

Product details

• Authors: Allen Ginsberg
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.1986
• EAN: 9780872860636
• ISBN: 978-0-87286-063-6
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 160 mm x 15 mm
• Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series; Pocket Poets Series; City Lights Pocket Poets Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, Colonialism & imperialism, POETRY / LGBT, Political Control & Freedoms