![]() ![]() "A Supermarket in California" is a prose poem with an irregular format that does not adhere to traditional poetic form including stanza and rhyme scheme. Like "Howl", "A Supermarket in California" was a critique of postwar America, yet in the poem the narrator focuses more on consumerist aspects of society by contrasting his generation with Whitman's. Ginsberg achieved critical success in 1956 with the publication of Howl and Other Poems, with "Howl" being the most popular of the works in the collection. įor its critique of mainstream American culture, the poem is considered to be one of the major works of the Beat Generation, which included other authors of the era such as Jack Kerouac, William Seward Burroughs, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Way) in that city and published in 1956, was intended to be a tribute to Whitman in the centennial year of the first edition of Leaves of Grass. ![]() "A Supermarket in California", written in Berkeley about a market at University Avenue and Grove Street (now Martin Luther King, Jr. ![]() Whitman, who is also discussed in " Howl", is a character common in Ginsberg's poems, and is often referred to as Ginsberg's poetic model. In the poem, the narrator visits a supermarket in California and imagines finding Federico García Lorca and Walt Whitman shopping. ![]() "A Supermarket in California" is a poem by American poet Allen Ginsberg first published in Howl and Other Poems in 1956. ![]()
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