The pure products of America
go crazy—
mountain folk from Kentucky
or the ribbed north end of
Jersey
Williams believes that there’s something inherently maddening about the American experience, at least for the “pure products” of the country: ordinary folks who grow up poor and close to the land (but without “peasant traditions”). 
 Allen Ginsberg was a great admirer of WCW (and vice versa), and you can hear an echo of this opening line in the  opening to Ginsberg’s “Howl”:  “I have seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.”
To Elsie-