The poem “America” marked a milestone in terms of freedom of speech and ideas. In his reflections on democratic capitalism, Allen Ginsberg gives an alternative portrait of America, with its social reforms. ~ Allen Ginsberg's "America" presents a scathing critique of American culture delivered by someone who has almost entirely repudiated its values. Allen Ginsberg's poem was an acclaimed poet and leading figure of the Beat Generation whose radical literary works and advocacy for social change were indelibly remembered. Ginsberg's America is a comic poem raising questions about American society in the 1970s. It's worth listening to Ginsberg read it to hear the audience's laughter. This allows you to evaluate how it happened. Allen Ginsberg born in Newark, New Jersey, United States and died in New York, New York was an American poet whose epic poem Howl (1956) is considered one of the most important products of the Beat movement. Ginsberg grew up in Paterson, New Jersey, where his father, Louis Ginsberg, himself a poet, Introduction. Allen Ginsberg's poem "A Supermarket in California", written and published the following year, is a protest poem aimed at post-war American culture and which focuses on the consumerist characteristics of society and the lack link between the contemporary world and nature. “A Supermarket in California” is written in prose.