Read this excerpt from Allen Ginsberg's "A Supermarket in California."

Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?

Ginsberg most likely makes this allusion to Garcia Lorca to

A - show his respect for Lorca for being an unconventional poet.

B - celebrate his affinity for Spanish culture and language.

C - explain his confusion over Lorca's desire for cultural conformity.

D - describe their role in contributing to American consumerism.

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Answer: A - show his respect for Lorca for being an unconventional poet.

In the poem "A supermarket in California," Ginsberg makes a critique of American consumerism and cultural conformity, which he thinks is exemplified in the American supermarket.

Two poets make appearances in the story. First, Walt Whitman. The poem was written 100 years after Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and Ginsberg reflects on how the country has changed in that period. The second author is Lorca, a Spanish poet who was killed by the regime of Franco. Lorca was an admirer of Whitman, and he despised cultural conformity. Lorca is presented in this poem as an unconventional thinker, similar to Whitman.