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. What his National Book Award?winning volume documented he had also recorded, playing a reel-to-reel tape machine given to him by Bob Dylan as he traveled the nation?s byways and visited its cities, finding himself again and again in the midst of history in the making?or unmaking. Through a wealth of autopoesy (transcriptions of these recorded poems) published here for the first time in the poet?s journals of this period, Ginsberg can be overheard collecting the observations, events, reflections and conversations that would become his most extraordinary work as he witnessed America at a time of historic...
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