Fun House Antique Store (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Allen Ginsberg
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Traveling or travelers, 1990’s, Houses, mansions, or manors, Antiques
Recalling the catalogue of abundance that begins “A Supermarket in California,” “Fun House Antique Store” conveys a similar feeling of excitement at the marvels available to an American citizen among the fundamental things of the American nation. In this poem, it is the apparently mundane objects of life along the road that Ginsberg, in the tradition of Walt Whitman and Jack Kerouac, sees with delight as he has been “motoring through States” on the way to an event at the nation's capital. No longer the “isolato” (as Whitman described himself) of the time in 1955 when he...
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