A Study Guide for Allen Ginsberg's "A Supermarket in California"
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A Supermarket in California
Allen Ginsberg
1955
Introduction
Written in 1955, A Supermarket in California
appeared the next year in Howl and Other Poems, Allen Ginsberg’s controversial and groundbreaking book of verse that is often credited with initiating the Beat movement. Beat
is a term coined by writer Jack Kerouac to mean both beat down
and beatitude.
It was meant to describe the dissatisfaction and spiritual exhaustion of a generation that came of age during the 1940s and 1950s.
A whimsical, almost comic poem, A Supermarket in California
addresses, in a surrealistic fashion, Ginsberg’s own relation to Walt Whitman, the nineteenth-century, American poet considered by many to be the father of modern poetry and one of Ginsberg’s literary idols. As in most of Ginsberg’s poems, the speaker is Ginsberg himself (rather than a poetic persona), and he uses the supermarket as a metaphoric setting for dreaming about the possibilities that America offers and lamenting the country it has instead become.
One of Ginsberg’s most frequently anthologized shorter poems, A Supermarket in California
not only acknowledges Ginsberg’s debt to Whitman’s vision of America as a place of possibility and abundance, but also allows Ginsberg to place himself (more explicitly) in a tradition of gay writers. When Ginsberg writes I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys,
he alludes to the homoerotic desire so prevalent in Whitman’s own work. This possibility of being openly gay in America is one of the many opportunities that Whitman’s poetry enabled for