The Fall of America

The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965–1971 is a collection of poetry by Allen Ginsberg, published by City Lights Bookstore in 1973, for which Ginsberg shared the annual U.S. National Book Award for Poetry.

The poems chronicle Ginsberg's condemnation of America's actions in Vietnam, the Moon Landing, the 1968 Democratic National Convention, the death of Che Guevara, and personal tragedies like the death of Ginsberg's friend and lover Neal Cassady. Many of the poems were initially composed on an Uher Tape recorder, purchased by Ginsberg with the help of Bob Dylan.