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  <title><![CDATA[The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;I&gt;National Book Award for Poetry, 1973&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;BR&gt;  &lt;P&gt;Beginning with &quot;long poem of these States,&quot; 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 &amp; silent desk musings, headline flashing on road through these states of consciousness. . . .&lt;/P&gt;</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Allen Ginsberg]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[not quite stream of consciousness writing (but close at times), this set of poetry is unique to the Beat writers in that it describes a cross-country trek and wild times.  You know that Ginsberg wrote all of these while in a car, hotel room or bar while he could devote proper attention to his craft....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25660807">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A perfect blend of Ginsberg's oracular, brawny poetic and his far leftist political sensibility. What would a Benzedrine-fueled Whitman whisper to Blake before the prophetic sex that would, nine months later, give us Ginsberg? &quot;Please master call me a dog, an ass beast, a wet asshole, / &amp; fuck ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35012924">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stole this book from my high school library in 1981 (it was a Catholic school, why would they have a book with poems about butt sex? whatever) shortly after reading &quot;<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288.The_Road" title="The Road by Cormac McCarthy">On the Road</a>,&quot; and nothing ever looked the same after that. Those two books changed the course of my life because they showed...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28797960">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd only really recommend this book if you want a glimpse of Ginsberg's writing, and even still, these poems wouldn't be the ones I'd recommend. Ginsberg not only misses what a lot of his colleagues picked up on as the &quot;fall of america&quot; during the 60's, but is also too self-serving a write...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5805474">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[as a younger person I felt uncomfortable reading some of the pieces in this, but I grew up and now I love it. I always have this with me.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the words of my friend Praveena, not my baked potato . . .]]></body>
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