![]() ![]() Ginsberg uses sarcasm to accuse America of attempting to divert responsibility for the Cold War ("America you don't want to go to war/ it's them bad Russians / Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. The poem is presented in a stream of consciousness literary format.Īmerica is a largely political work, with much of the poem consisting of various accusations against the United States, its government, and its citizens. It appears in his collection Howl and Other Poems published in November 1956. "America" is a poem by Allen Ginsberg, written in 1956 while he was in Berkeley, California. JSTOR ( September 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification. ![]()
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