188 pages
English language
Published 1983 by City Lights Books.
The Fall of America
Poems of These States, 1965–1971 The Pocket poets series -- no. 30
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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. . . .