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An autobiographical journey through America in the turbulent 1960s--the essential backstory to Ginsberg's National Book Award-winning volume of poetry

Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry

Beginning with "long poem of these States," The Fall of America is the follow up book to Ginsberg's Planet News ... chronicle tape-recorded scribed by hand or sung condensed, the flux of car bus airplane dream... Read Full Overview

An autobiographical journey through America in the turbulent 1960s--the essential backstory to Ginsberg's National Book Award-winning volume of poetry Published in 1974, The Fall of America was Allen Ginsberg's magnum opus, a poetic account of his experiences in a nation in turmoil... Read Full Overview